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When it comes to the security of our customers’ IT infrastructure, we are the experts you can trust. We know that your systems and data are at the heart of your company and we do everything we can to protect them from threats.

Our IT security integration for your business

Infrastructure Security: No fear of vulnerabilities

First of all: If you want to find out more about securing traditional IT infrastructure, skip to the section “How we secure your IT infrastructure“. Because we would like to talk about operational security (OT) here first. For us, in addition to the classic components for controlling production systems such as PLCs (programmable logic controllers), OT also includes goods lifts, fire protection systems, air conditioning systems and medical devices – and is therefore the focus of information security. Because each of these components is critical for your production.

We do not deal with the installation or maintenance of measurement and control technology. However, we know from experience that OT components have completely different requirements in terms of availability and therefore also require different processes. And this is where our expertise comes into play: Just because one of your OT devices has a vulnerability that has not been fixed is no reason to patch it or even install anti-virus software. The latter is generally prohibited due to the requirements of real-time operating systems, the former due to the necessary availability.

Instead, the ensec experts implement a zone model in your OT environment. Firewalls not only separate the OT environment from the IT environment if they share transport routes. Zones also protect devices from each other within the production environment. So even if, for example, a PLC is infected with malware, it is still not possible to access the engineering workstation. We define the zones together with you after our specialists have conducted an inventory to determine what belongs to OT and what needs to be included.
You can find out more about our OT services here.

Vulnerability management: how we secure your IT infrastructure

Traditional IT environments today are generally complex structures: various products from a wide range of manufacturers not only need to be operated, but also kept under control. Automated vulnerability management is the only viable approach here. Otherwise, your IT specialists will invest a disproportionate amount of effort in determining the need for protection and the necessary steps.

The ensec specialists will advise you on the right way to integrate vulnerability management into your environment. For example, whether the whitebox approach, in which vulnerabilities are searched for based on a complete overview of the inventory, is the right way to go. Or whether agents on end devices should provide reports on the status of the systems. And, of course, we can also help you secure cloud infrastructures and select the right tools for you.

We integrate the vulnerability management solution into your environment based on the rules formulated by your CISO. Regardless of whether this involves a scanner, agents on end devices or the aforementioned approach based on the inventory. If necessary, we also develop the necessary changes to the configurations of web application firewalls (WAF) or intrusion prevention systems (IPS) in order to scan services operated behind these components.

And what do the processes have to do with the GDPR?

Vulnerability management is more than just a collection of software tools. Rather, internal processes must also be established to eliminate the gaps discovered. For example, to define who remedies which risks, when and why. The ensec experts not only help you to set up the necessary reporting, but also to interpret the reports.

We also help you to assess individual risks – always depending on the respective network zones – and to identify your sensitive data. Based on this information, we then work with your team to prioritise how to deal with the respective weak points.

In the event of a data leak, it is these processes in particular that tell data protection officers how professionally the affected organisation has prepared for a data outflow. The better the preparation, the lower the fines that are usually triggered by GDPR breaches.

Infrastructure Security in Detail

Container Security

Container technologies have revolutionised the development, deployment and use of applications. ensec offers solutions for their overall security – to protect every phase of the container lifecycle.

Vulnerability Management

Digitalisation, IoT and the ongoing shift to the cloud require additional security measures. By using VM software, you can optimise your security and relieve your IT experts of the burden of identifying, assessing, handling and reporting vulnerabilities.

OT / IoT

Operational systems are at the centre of value creation. Attacks on critical infrastructures harbour a very high risk. Those who improve their OT/IoT transparency, security and threat intelligence ensure the availability, security and confidentiality of their operational systems.

Multifactor Authentication

Passwords are easy to compromise. Therefore, simple access to networks or databases does not offer sufficient protection against hackers. User access distributed over several layers increases the protection of your systems and data many times over.

From a business perspective

Eliminating weak points costs money – and so do weak points.

It is obvious that data leaks caused by unresolved vulnerabilities have financial consequences: fines, legal fees, loss of reputation, expenses for forensic experts and so on.

Less obvious, however, are the costs triggered by vulnerability management in need of improvement. Because if you try to close all gaps immediately, you are wasting resources. We help you prioritise the tasks and thus keep the costs in check and ensure that no vulnerability remains undetected.

May we personally provide you with arguments in favour of ensec? Please contact us.

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