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Critical Infrastructure Security Solutions

Protecting Vital Assets: Advanced Security Against Cyber Attacks

IT Infrastructure Security Solutions: How Does Cybersecurity Help Organizations?

Protecting the Foundation of Modern Society

Critical infrastructure industries—including energy, transportation, water systems, telecommunications, and healthcare—form the backbone of our interconnected world. These essential services power our cities, move our goods, deliver clean water, and keep communications flowing. However, their critical importance and increasing digitization make them prime targets for sophisticated cyber adversaries seeking to cause widespread disruption, economic damage, and even physical harm.

The threat landscape facing critical infrastructure has never been more complex. Nation-state actors, cybercriminal organizations, and insider threats continuously evolve their tactics, launching devastating ransomware campaigns, advanced persistent threats (APTs), and supply chain attacks. A single successful cyber-attack on critical infrastructure can cascade across multiple sectors, causing power outages, transportation delays, water contamination, communication blackouts, and potentially endangering human lives while inflicting billions in economic losses.

VerSprite’s Risk-Centric Approach
to Critical Infrastructure Protection

At VerSprite, we understand that protecting critical infrastructure requires more than standard cybersecurity measures—it demands specialized expertise, deep industry knowledge, and a comprehensive understanding of both digital and physical security risks. Our critical infrastructure security solutions are built on years of experience protecting the most vital systems that keep society functioning.

We deliver customized cybersecurity solutions tailored specifically to the unique operational requirements, regulatory mandates, and threat profiles of critical infrastructure organizations. Our comprehensive services span the entire security lifecycle, from initial risk assessments and vulnerability identification to ongoing monitoring, threat hunting, and rapid incident response capabilities.

Our security experts possess deep domain expertise in evaluating complex network infrastructure security, industrial control systems (ICS), supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems, distributed control systems (DCS), programmable logic controllers (PLCs), and critical data storage environments. We understand the delicate balance between operational technology (OT) and information technology (IT) security, ensuring that our security implementations never compromise operational efficiency or safety-critical processes.

The VerSprite Advantage:
PASTA Threat Modeling Methodology

What distinguishes VerSprite’s critical infrastructure security solutions is our risk-centric offensive approach, founded on the industry’s most comprehensive threat modeling methodology—PASTA (Process for Attack Simulation and Threat Analysis). Unlike generic security frameworks, PASTA uniquely considers both your organization’s specific business objectives and the dynamic threat landscape targeting your sector.

This methodology enables us to:

Identify assets most critical to your operations and mission
Map realistic attack scenarios specific to your infrastructure
Prioritize security investments based on actual risk exposure
Develop targeted countermeasures aligned with operational requirements
Continuously adapt security posture as threats evolve

Learn more about our risk-based threat modeling approach.

Comprehensive Critical Infrastructure
Security Services

Industrial Control Systems Security Assessments

Our ICS security assessments provide comprehensive evaluation of your operational technology environment, including SCADA systems, distributed control systems, programmable logic controllers, and human-machine interfaces (HMIs). We identify configuration weaknesses, communication protocol vulnerabilities, authentication gaps, and potential attack vectors that could enable unauthorized access to critical control systems.

Our assessments go beyond traditional IT security testing to understand the unique operational constraints and safety requirements of industrial environments. We work closely with your operations teams to ensure testing activities never impact production processes or compromise worker safety. Our deliverables include detailed vulnerability analysis, risk prioritization based on operational impact, and actionable remediation guidance that maintains operational continuity.

Advanced Network Security Assessments

Critical infrastructure networks face unique challenges, often spanning legacy systems, air-gapped networks, and hybrid IT/OT environments. Our network security assessments evaluate the complete security posture of your network infrastructure, including firewalls, routers, switches, wireless access points, remote access solutions, and network segmentation controls.

We examine network architecture for design flaws that could enable lateral movement, assess configuration hardening across all network devices, test network monitoring and detection capabilities, and validate network segmentation effectiveness between IT and OT environments. Our assessments identify critical vulnerabilities that could provide attackers with persistent network access or enable them to pivot between corporate and operational networks.

Explore our comprehensive offensive security services.

Incident Response Planning and Crisis Management

When cyber incidents target critical infrastructure, response time is measured in minutes, not hours. Our incident response services provide 24/7/365 emergency response capabilities specifically designed for critical infrastructure environments. We understand that operational continuity is paramount and that incident response procedures must account for both cybersecurity and operational safety considerations.

Our incident response planning includes development of sector-specific playbooks, establishment of communication protocols with relevant government agencies and industry partners, creation of decision trees for operational shutdown procedures, and regular tabletop exercises to test response capabilities. When incidents occur, our experienced team provides immediate containment, forensic analysis, system recovery support, and regulatory notification assistance.

Learn more about our incident response capabilities.

Specialized Penetration Testing for Critical Infrastructure

Our penetration testing services for critical infrastructure go far beyond standard security testing. We conduct authorized simulations of real-world attack scenarios specifically targeting critical infrastructure, including advanced persistent threat simulations, insider threat scenarios, supply chain compromise testing, and physical security assessments.

Our testing methodologies account for the unique operational constraints of critical infrastructure environments. We coordinate closely with operations teams to ensure testing activities are carefully scheduled and monitored to prevent any impact on operational systems. Our penetration tests validate security controls effectiveness, identify potential attack paths to critical systems, and provide actionable remediation guidance prioritized by operational risk.

Discover our penetration testing expertise.

Application Security for Critical Infrastructure Systems

Critical infrastructure increasingly relies on custom applications, web-based management interfaces, and mobile applications to manage operations. These applications often have direct connections to operational technology systems, making their security paramount to overall infrastructure protection.

Our application security assessments use a risk-centric approach specifically tailored for critical infrastructure applications. We evaluate web applications that interface with operational systems, mobile applications used for remote monitoring and control, APIs that connect IT and OT systems, and third-party applications integrated into your infrastructure. Our assessments identify vulnerabilities that could provide attackers access to critical systems and provide secure development guidance for ongoing application development.

Learn about our application threat modeling services.

Regulatory Compliance and Standards Alignment

Critical infrastructure organizations must navigate complex regulatory landscapes while maintaining operational efficiency. Our compliance and regulatory services ensure your organization meets mandatory industry standards and regulations including NERC CIP (North American Electric Reliability Corporation Critical Infrastructure Protection), TSA Security Directives, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, CISA directives, and sector-specific regulatory requirements.

We provide gap analysis against applicable standards, development of policies and procedures aligned with regulatory requirements, implementation support for required security controls, ongoing compliance monitoring and reporting, and preparation for regulatory audits and inspections. Our approach ensures compliance efforts enhance rather than hinder operational efficiency.

Explore our regulatory compliance services.

Security Awareness Training for Critical Infrastructure Personnel

Human factors remain a critical vulnerability in critical infrastructure security. Our security awareness training programs are specifically designed for critical infrastructure personnel, addressing the unique threats and operational considerations of your environment.

Our training covers advanced phishing and social engineering techniques targeting critical infrastructure, secure remote access procedures for operational systems, incident recognition and reporting procedures, insider threat awareness, supply chain security considerations, and physical security best practices. We develop role-specific training modules for different personnel including operators, engineers, contractors, and management to ensure relevant and actionable security education.

Access our security awareness training programs.

Continuous Monitoring and Threat Intelligence

Critical infrastructure requires continuous vigilance against evolving threats. Our managed security services provide 24/7 monitoring of your critical systems, real-time threat intelligence specific to your sector, behavioral analysis to detect anomalous activities, integration with operational monitoring systems, and rapid escalation procedures for critical alerts.

We maintain deep threat intelligence feeds focused on critical infrastructure threats, including nation-state activities, cybercriminal campaigns targeting your sector, and emerging vulnerabilities in operational technology systems. This intelligence directly informs our monitoring activities and helps predict and prepare for emerging threats.

Discover our Threat Intelligence and Continuous Monitoring

Partner with VerSprite for
Comprehensive Critical Infrastructure Protection

Protecting critical infrastructure requires specialized expertise, proven methodologies, and unwavering commitment to operational continuity. VerSprite combines deep technical expertise with comprehensive understanding of critical infrastructure operational requirements to deliver security solutions that protect without compromising mission-critical operations.

Our team includes former critical infrastructure operators, government cybersecurity professionals, and industry-leading security researchers who understand both the technical and operational challenges facing your organization. We serve as trusted advisors, helping you navigate complex security challenges while maintaining the operational excellence that society depends upon.

Contact VerSprite today to discuss how our critical infrastructure security solutions can enhance your organization’s resilience against evolving cyber threats while supporting your operational mission.

VerSprite Resources

A Geopolitical Perspective on Supply Chain Risks and Opportunities

What are the geopolitical risks of physical and digital supply chain attacks to your organization? Join VerSprite and CLASS-LLC in a webinar on the top risks and mitigation strategies to use in 2020.

Addressing Cybercrime via PASTA Threat Modeling

VerSprite’s CEO, Tony UcedaVélez addresses combatting cybercrime via a risk centric approach with PASTA Threat Modeling methodology. This risk based approach led to the mantra behind VerSprite Security as well as the Process for Attack Simulation for Threat Analysis, a co-developed risk based threat modeling methodology that Tony co-authored along with accompanying book (Risk Centric Threat Modeling, Wiley 2015). 

Data Management: Best Practices for Security & Privacy

This presentation revisits both traditional governance best practices that are still invaluable to proper data management and governance efforts, as well as practical technological controls that can support the management of data.

Geopolitical Cyber Threats and Business Operations

Cybersecurity and geopolitics are inextricably linked. To holistically tackle threats to our information security, we must take a step back and examine their causal roots and drivers, which take place day after day on the international stage.

Offensive Threat Models Against the Supply Chain

Threat models are often used by security champions to discover flaws in application environments. Many threat models are built thru defensive lens, foregoing realistic attack patterns that reflect adversarial goals vs. simply using a limited, non-mutable threat category.

Third-Party Risk Management Software (VRA vs. TPRM) vs. Vendor Risk Assessment Services

What’s the best practice to manage third-party vendor risks? In this eBook, VerSprite’s GRC team compare 7 factors to help you determine if Third-Party Risk Management software (TPRM) or Vendor Risk Assessment services (VRA) is right for you. Included: VRM Checklist

Zero Trust – a Trendy Buzzword or a Future of Cybersecurity?

Zero Trust security is the hot trend and a buzzword in the cybersecurity world right now. But what is behind the buzz? How exactly does Zero Trust work? In this article, we break down what Zero Trust actually is and the reality of its implementation.