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Industrial Cybersecurity Expert (ICS/OT)

AKENATECH operates across all industrial sectors, with a particular focus on those considered “highly critical” and “critical” under the NIS2 regulation: energy, water treatment, healthcare, transportation, manufacturing, chemica industry, aerospace, defense, agri-food, and more.

The AKENATECH advantages

Pragmatism

Streamlining processes and delivering concrete results with a focus on return on investment (ROI).

Service

Adapting to the constraints of the industrial world and supporting our clients in achieving operational performance.

Independence

Identifying the best solutions on the market for our clients, thanks to our human-scale structure.

What Makes Industrial Cybersecurity (ICS/OT) Different from IT Cybersecurity?

  • Ensure the safety of people and assets.
  • Guarantee production uptime and service continuity.
  • You comply with regulations and standards: NIS2, ISO27001, CRA, Machine Directive, IEC 6244.
  • Digitize and optimize your production systems securely.
  • Protect your assets and your business (reputation, revenue, resilience).
  • Defend your market share and expand into new markets.
  • Protect your competitive advantage by safeguarding your trade secrets.
  • Lower your insurance costs.

What are the specific characteristics of industrial cybersecurity (ICS/OT)

compared to enterprise IT cybersecurity?

  • Risk of major accidents in the context of geopolitical tensions: energy, water treatment, healthcare, transportation, chemical industry, and digital infrastructures.
  • Diversity of components to secure: programmable logic controllers (PLCs), distributed control systems (DCS), sensors and actuators, safety instrumented systems (SIS), manufacturing execution systems (MES), fieldbuses, human-machine interfaces (HMI), and supervisory control and data acquisition systems (SCADA).
  • Challenging physical environments on the production workshop: dust, temperature variations, vibrations, electromagnetic interferences, power supply issues, gas, and steam.
  • Long lifecycle of industrial systems, often involving outdated hardware and software.
  • Operational constraints, including real-time processes and the need for 24/7 continuous operation.
  • Immediate and tangible impact of cybersecurity actions on safety and production continuity.
  • Wide range of stakeholders: from executive leadership to shop floor operators, including automation engineers, instrumentation specialists, electrical technicians, and process engineers.