To that end, 32 percent of organizations with industrial environments actively monitor OT systems and just 20 percent maintain dedicated OT security teams, according to The World Economic Forum’s annual Global Cybersecurity Outlook. That is happening as cyberattacks against operational technology assets continue to grow in frequency and sophistication.
Recognizing these risks, Honeywell’s OT Cybersecurity Suite equips industrial organizations to move beyond reactive security models and adopt a unified, forward-looking approach to cyber resilience.
“The cybersecurity landscape for industrial organizations continues to evolve rapidly, with increasingly advanced threats targeting critical operations,” said Jim Masso, president and chief executive of Honeywell Process Automation. “Organizations with a unified cybersecurity strategy across both digital and physical environments are setting a solid foundation for operational resilience while also avoiding potentially dangerous and costly attacks.”
Cybersecurity Features
New features of the expanded Honeywell OT Cybersecurity Suite include five new capabilities that build on the platform’s current offerings to protect critical infrastructure and minimize operational risk:
- Cyber Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC): Streamlining compliance management, Cyber GRC automates evidence collection and audit reporting through AI and machine learning capabilities. Moreover, the software reduces administrative burden by transforming weeks of manual effort into hours while providing greater visibility into security posture.
- Data Diode: Protecting sensitive data flows is paramount in industrial environments. Indeed, Honeywell’ data diode allows for secure, unidirectional data transfer, helping isolate critical systems and maintain high security standards in OT domains.
- OT Security Operations Center (SOC): As a managed service for network and endpoint monitoring, the OT SOC equips organizations with the expertise and resources needed to respond swiftly to incidents. Furthermore, with 24/7 monitoring and a vendor-agnostic hub, it enhances incident response, minimizes asset downtime, and helps ensure operational continuity.
- Secure Media Exchange (SMX) Portable Scanner: SMX is a specialized cyber-physical solution designed to protect industrial facilities and critical infrastructure from threats carried in on USBs and other removable media devices. Powered by anti-virus and threat intelligence, the new SMX Portable Scanner enables deep inspection of storage devices, Windows-based machines and air-gapped systems, reducing the risk of malware entering critical environments and disrupting supply chains.
- Cyber Proactive Defense (CPD): CPD is a next generation AI-powered monitoring solution purpose-built for Operational Technology (OT) environments facing increasingly more sophisticated cyberattacks. Using advanced analytics and real-time monitoring, it correlates alerts across process and automation tools to deliver actionable insights, enabling organizations to proactively identify, prioritize, and mitigate threats before they escalate into full-scale attacks and impact critical operations.
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