Universal Tunneling: Secure & Simple OT Connections

Unique to WALLIX, Universal Tunneling enables users to benefit from all the power and ease of the WALLIX Bastion while simplifying the user experience.

Increasingly Exposed Process Environments

For many years, the so-called “industrial” and “office” networks have remained well-separated. Technologies and needs differed, as did the challenges and risks each area of the business faced. Today, however, OT relies on IT technologies but adapted to the operational safety constraints that characterize the industry. The maintenance of IT-OT components is no exception to the need for security. Unfortunately, the proliferation of network access points, secure or not, is characteristic of the massive digitization of industrial environments. In 2020, Kaspersky’s ICS CERT observed a 53% increase in remote access to OT environments and, at the same time, an average reduction in cybersecurity budgets of 24%.

Rampant, uncontrolled, and unmonitored remote access drastically increases the attack surface of OT environments. And in a sector rife with sensitive data and public implications, the potential consequences are significant, in terms of lost production costs, data leakage, or human impacts (public safety, biomedical concerns, etc.).