Industrial Control Systems (ICS), the utility grid, and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) tie together a wide range of devices and services, including many that are in the class of critical infrastructure. This growing number of endpoints connected to the Internet increases the cyber-attack surface - each class of endpoints and their cloud service provider infrastructure introduce new vulnerabilities and attack vectors.

BlackRidge Transport Access Control (TAC) is well suited to protect distributed endpoints and their cloud services, given it works end-to-end across network and cloud boundaries, and that TAC works well in undefined topology networks. BlackRidge segments and isolates SCADA and IIoT devices and the cloud infrastructure that manages them, blocking scanning, discovery, and access from all unidentified and unauthorized devices and systems. It closes attack vectors by allowing only authorized and authenticated inbound and outbound network sessions.

BlackRidge TAC operates prior to a session or connection being made, effectively taking critical infrastructure networks and IIoT devices off an attacker’s map. BlackRidge can be flexibly deployed on a device or in a hub architecture to communicate identity on behalf of individual IoT sensors or SCADA devices. This supports both new and legacy environments, providing scalability that support millions of devices. Also low computational requirements allow many integration options with low power consumption.