Claroty to Showcase its Cyber-Physical Systems Protection Solutions

Tell us about the cybersecurity trends for 2023.

Highly interconnected cyber-physical systems including operational technology (OT), the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT), building management systems (BMS) and more – collectively known as the Extended Internet of Things (XIoT) – have become pervasive as organizations across critical sectors seek to modernize their environments via digital transformation.

While the ever-growing XIoT delivers a number of business benefits that drive innovation, resilience, productivity and sustainability, it can also increase exposure to cyber and operational risks if not properly secured.

Additionally, as CISOs become increasingly responsible for securing their organization’s cyber-physical systems, they cannot rely solely on traditional IT security solutions to provide sufficient visibility into these assets without disrupting mission-critical operations.

What is the theme of your participation at GISEC 2023?

Given the growing demand for cybersecurity solutions that are purpose-built for cyber-physical systems in the Middle East and around the world, our focus will be engaging with the GISEC community in order to find ways to work together to protect the critical systems that power our way of life – from the food we eat and water we drink, to the energy sources that power our homes and cities, to life-saving medical care.

Which products and solutions will you be showcasing at GISEC 2023?

Claroty offers a portfolio for cyber-physical systems protection solutions that integrate seamlessly with customers’ existing infrastructure to provide a full range of controls for visibility, risk and vulnerability management, network segmentation, threat detection, and secure remote access. These solutions include:

1. Continuous Threat Detection (CTD): Claroty’s flagship product, delivers comprehensive asset visibility and security controls for industrial environments

2. Secure Remote Access (SRA): Delivers frictionless, reliable, and highly secure remote access to industrial environments for internal and third-party users

3. Medigate by Claroty: A modular, SaaS-powered healthcare cybersecurity platform, which was brought into the Claroty portfolio following our acquisition of Medigate in January 2022

4. xDome: A modular, SaaS-powered industrial cybersecurity platform launched in August 2022, combining Claroty and Medigate’s deep domain expertise and specialized technologies for industrial and healthcare environments into a single platform

How are you equipped to help companies overcome digital security and privacy challenges?

As our physical world connects more deeply and broadly with our digital world, organizations are recognizing that they need to take a holistic ap - proach to securing the wide range of connected assets within their environments.

Understanding the need to secure enterprise XIoT environments holistically, Claroty’s cyber-physical system protection solutions integrate seamlessly with customers’ existing infrastructure to provide full visibility, protection, and threat detection for all connected assets.

Powered by deep domain expertise, its award-winning threat research group Team82, and a robust partner ecosystem, Claroty’s solutions are designed to meet the unique challenges and requirements of securing any XIoT environment, ensuring cyber and operational resilience for the connected organizations that sustain our lives.

Is there a skills gap in the cybersecurity industry? What needs to be done to bridge that gap?

Absolutely. The gap in very specialized OT cybersecurity is even greater, since IT has a decades-long head start in building expertise and, therefore, a larger talent pool.

There are no easy solutions to close the OT cybersecurity talent gap, but there are still a number of steps that organizations can take such as cross-training IT security staff to familiarize them with the world of OT, engaging with educational institutions to attract recent grads, and leaning into technology solutions that can increase productivity through automating certain time-consuming tasks.