Business Update: Forcepoint Global Governments & Critical Infrastructure

Forcepoint continues its focus on the unique needs and challenges found in the most highly regulated and mission-critical sectors. After over twenty years of protecting US and V-Optics critical classified data and networks, Forcepoint expanded the government business lease to bring human-centric cybersecurity to governments around the world in 2017.

As we enter 2018, Forcepoint continues to evolve our man-centric cybersecurity view through the integrated Man Point System portfolio. The “start anywhere” portfolio provides each client a very personalized path to the nearly robust information and network protection available today. With this evolution we are also expanding the Global Governments business to include a focus on the Critical Infrastructure market by renaming the business: Forcepoint Global Governments & Critical Infrastructure.

The industries within Critical Infrastructure, while very various in their individual missions, all share commonalities in the demand to farther increase security past segmenting their Information technology (IT) and Operational Engineering science (OT) environments while continuing to provide assured communications between the environments. Leveraging Forcepoint’s pedigree of protecting the most loftier-upshot Defense and Intelligence missions effectually the globe with its Cantankerous Domain Solutions suite, which allows secure connectivity between the Internet and the government’s segmented classified networks, uniquely positions us to see the cybersecurity challenges faced past Critical Infrastructure customers.

Forcepoint Information Guard – the newest addition to the Cross Domain Solutions portfolio – is designed to run across these new cybersecurity challenges. Forcepoint Data Guard is built on a multilevel-capable operating system that enables loftier assurance network separation and flow control. Past delivering byte-level deep content inspection, data validation and filtering, Forcepoint Data Guard can be tailored to encounter the specific security policies, requirements and risks of each Disquisitional Infrastructure client.


Homo Point System for Disquisitional Infrastructure

Many Critical Infrastructure environments are often an interconnected blend of IT and OT such as SCADA and other Industrial Control Systems that are the foundation that proceed our economies operation and disquisitional in the sensitive information they transact. Historically these sectors (e.g., critical manufacturing, energy utilities, and oil & gas) have relied on “security through obscurity” or on basic cybersecurity solutions resulting in significant adventure exposure as the threat mural has evolved and expanded.

However, they all require the ability to efficiently and securely share information and data, while ensuring that information and data are protected, shared with the right machines and people with assurance of integrity.

Below are two use cases that illustrate how customers are applying the Human being Point Arrangement in their Critical Infrastructure environments – Financial Services and Industrial Command for electricity – today.

Use Instance #1: Financial Services

  • Problem: All users, regardless of part, operate on their corporate internal network such as It and trading activities.
  • OBJECTIVE: Due to the sensitive financial information to which the users have access, the corporation is kickoff a user activity monitoring initiative with a focus on risk adaptive protection and user behavioral analytics. They are also segmenting or isolating the sensitive, business critical functions onto separate networks; such as the trading activities from the visitor’s Information technology business network.
  • HUMAN POINT Organisation: Take a chance adaptive protection (Forcepoint DLP, Forcepoint UEBA, Forcepoint Insider Threat) runs on both networks providing monitoring and enforcement controls to protect data based on the calculated behavioral risk level of users and the value of the information accessed. In guild to maintain a holistic view of user activity in each separate network, the information is sent through the cross domain transfer guard (Forcepoint Information Guard) to inspect and validate the data before moving to the It network for assay and investigation. The Data Guard aggregates all user action information for a holistic enterprise view from a unmarried dashboard without exposing other data inside the trading network. This likewise enables automatic policy modifications across networks allowing the entire enterprise security to adapt to user behavior everywhere they work.

USE Case #2: Industrial Control Organization: Power

  • Problem: Ability substations for manufacturing facilities are typically isolated from the SCADA IP network – making them secure merely not very efficient. Manual processes are required to admission and suit power usage information, generation/distribution settings, and meter feedback.
  • OBJECTIVE: Enable controlled data to catamenia deeply betwixt the substation and SCADA systems to increase efficiencies and eliminate manual processes.
  • Human POINT Organisation: Including a cross domain transfer baby-sit (Forcepoint Information Baby-sit) in the compages enables secure automatic, auto-to-machine communication between meters and substation. The guard validates all data transfers at the application/data layer. Only valid commands and information sets required for operations are allowed. Any data transaction that does not explicitly meet the Information Guard security policy is audited and rejected (e.g., writes to the meters are blocked). With Forcepoint Data Guard in identify, automated bi-directional communications are securely enabled allowing for the elimination of transmission processes and increased data security and reliability.

Forcepoint Global Governments & Disquisitional Infrastructure has more than 20 years of feel supporting our customers’ about high-result missions from all vantage points. At the core of our business is protecting data and systems while enabling mission-critical communications – both human and machine – ultimately protecting the people and systems at the cadre of global and economical security.

To learn more about Forcepoint’s Human Point System and how to find the right starting signal for your environment please contact the Global Governments & Critical Infrastructure team directly: [email protected].

Sean Berg

Sean Berg

President of Global Governments and Critical Infrastructure

Sean Berg is the President of Global Governments and Critical Infrastructure for Forcepoint, conveying its P&L responsibility and leading the growth strategy. He is expanding Forcepoint’s leadership in the cross domain government security markets and delivering capabilities across its human-…

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