Food & Beverage Cybersecurity Solution | Claroty

The Industrial Cybersecurity Challenge Facing Food & Beverage Companies

Rising competition, sky-high inflation, and greater prioritization of sustainability are among many factors fueling digital transformation in food & beverage. From new innovations that optimize feeding and irrigation, to cloud connectivity that integrates ERP and MES data across enterprise and plant networks for production and cost efficiencies, to robotic controllers that boost throughput — the benefits of automation, IT/OT connectivity, and CPS are why their manual, analog counterparts are now relics of the past.

But for many food & beverage companies, these benefits are outpaced by industrial cybersecurity risks. This harsh reality has repeatedly manifested as ransomware and other attacks that exploit security weaknesses in the CPS on which production availability, integrity, and safety rely. Mitigating these risks and, ultimately, gaining cyber and operational resilience requires a new approach that extends beyond traditional, IT-oriented security solutions.

Cyber-Physical Security in the Modern Industrial Network

Explore the industry’s leading OT cybersecurity platform–enabling food & beverage manufacturers to protect production lines and secure their supply chain against cyber risk.

Key Principles for Securing OT in Food & Beverage

Securing the OT environments that underpin food & beverage processing, production, and packaging requires that companies follow three key principles:

1. Gain visibility into all CPS in your OT environment

A comprehensive inventory of all OT, IoT, IIoT, and BMS assets — and all other CPS — that underpin your OT environment across each plant is the foundation of effective industrial cybersecurity. It’s also why Claroty has long prioritized our ability to deliver the industry-leading visibility that our food & beverage customers need to secure their most critical assets and operations.

2. Integrate your existing IT tools & workflows with OT

Since most CPS use proprietary protocols and legacy systems, they are simply incompatible with traditional IT solutions — but that doesn’t mean they have no place in OT. Rather than urge customers to expand their already-extensive tech stacks, Claroty integrates with them. As a result, our food & beverage customers can simply extend their existing tools and workflows from IT to OT.

3. Extend your IT security controls & governance to OT

Unlike their IT counterparts, most OT environments lack essential cybersecurity controls and consistent governance. Claroty eliminates this gap. After providing visibility into all CPS and integrating your IT tools and workflows with OT, Claroty extends your IT controls to OT — unifying your security governance and driving all use cases on your journey to cyber and operational resilience.

Driving Cyber Resilience from IT to OT with Claroty

The Claroty journey to cyber resilience empowers food & beverage companies to extend — and further optimize — the following cybersecurity use cases and governance areas from your IT to OT environment:

Asset Inventory

Claroty’s automated asset discovery capabilities create a centralized inventory that serves as the foundation for all cyber resilience use cases, empowering food & beverage companies with real-time inventory of all OT, IoT, and BMS assets and all other CPS throughout your OT environment.

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Exposure Management

Claroty extends your IT exposure management controls to OT by automatically identifying, assessing, and recommending remedial actions for all exposures affecting CPS in your production environment, enabling you to prioritize and implement mitigations to minimize lateral risk transfer.

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Network Protection

Claroty hardens OT environments in all electric utilities segments against threats by defining network segmentation policies to be easily enforced by your firewall and NAC solutions, as well as providing secure access purpose-built with controls for internal and third-party OT users.

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Threat Detection

Claroty enables food & beverage companies to continuously monitor for and respond to the earliest indicators of threats — ranging from ransomware attacks, to equipment failures, to malicious insiders — before they impact production, safety, regulatory compliance, or other critical assets.

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Boosting Operational Resilience from IT to OT with Claroty

The Claroty journey to operational resilience empowers food & beverage companies to extend and optimize the following security and operational use cases and governance areas from your IT to OT environments:

Asset Inventory

Operational resilience starts with gaining full visibility into all CPS in your OT environment. Claroty’s automated asset discovery capabilities deliver just this — empowering food & beverage companies with the complete, real-time inventory you need as the foundation for all operational resilience use cases.

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Change Management

Change management is essential to governance, compliance, maintenance, and procurement decisions enterprise-wide. Claroty empowers MoC programs across IT and OT with continuous asset and operational monitoring and flexible reporting to inform these and related decisions.

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Asset Management

Claroty makes it easy for food & beverage companies to optimize asset management by leveraging in-depth asset insights and an enriched CMDB via ready-made integrations to monitor for asset updates, enable SLA compliance, and optimize supply chain management and procurement.

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Remote Access

Claroty xDome Secure Access delivers highly secure and granularly controlled remote access that is frictionless to use and administer and supports all OT remote access use cases key to all oil & gas industry segments: from OT remote maintenance, to auditing, to vendor management and more.

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Simplifying Compliance for Food & Beverage Companies

Complying with recommended standards and required regulations is a notoriously complex, ever-evolving endeavor for food & beverage companies. Claroty simplifies compliance not only with respect to cybersecurity but also in adjacent areas — from physical safety, to quality assurance, to supply chain, and more. Highlights include:

Regulations & Legislation

Claroty’s support for the full cyber-physical systems security journey supports and simplifies compliance with the requirements set forth by NIS 2.0, RCE, FSMA, SOCI/SLACIP, FDA cGMPs, and many more.

Recommended Practices & Standards

Compliance with the following cybersecurity practices and standards is enabled by the controls offered by Claroty’s portfolio: CISA CGPs, NIST CSF, ISO 27001, IEC 62443, CIS, U.S. Bioeconomy Executive Order, and many more.

Why the Food & Beverage Industry Trusts Claroty

Seven of the largest 10 food & beverage companies worldwide trust Claroty to safeguard their CPS and the availability, integrity, and safety of the goods that they provide — and that the nourishment of our society depends on. Here's why:

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Industrial Automation Vendors

The Top 3 automation vendors (Rockwell Automation, Schneider Electric, and Siemens) invest in, partner with, and are loyal customers of Claroty, further validating our leadership.

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Awards

Our comprehensive cybersecurity platform has earned dozens of accolades for seamlessly enhancing the safety, security, and efficiency of OT, IoT, IIoT, BMS, and other CPS.

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Disclosures

Our award-winning Team82 researchers have disclosed more vulnerabilities than any other group. Their findings enhance our platform’s protections and drive security industry-wide.

Peer Reviews for The Claroty Platform

IT Security & Risk Management Associate in the Manufacturing Industry gives The Claroty Platform 5/5 Rating in Gartner Peer Insights™ CPS Protection Platforms Market

The Claroty Platform

“Threat alerts identified by the tool help us solve a possible cyber attack on industrial equipment.”

— IT Security & Risk Management Associate - Manufacturing Read the full review here

Technical Partner Spotlight

Claroty's vast technical ecosystem further expands the capabilities — and ROI — of our food & beverage customers’ existing security and operational investments. Key technical integration partners include: