Claroty empowers food & beverage companies to boost uptime and efficiency while hardening production lines against cyber threats by extending full visibility and industrial cybersecurity controls to their OT, IoT, IIoT, and BMS assets, as well as all other cyber-physical systems (CPS) in their OT environments.
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.
Explore the industry’s leading OT cybersecurity platform–enabling food & beverage manufacturers to protect production lines and secure their supply chain against cyber risk.
Because of the demanding nature of food & beverage production and international reliance on its outputs, even brief interruptions in operation can lead to substantial losses. The scenario becomes more complex as these food & beverage companies are faced with mounting regulatory pressure and increased competition – driving these organizations to enhance their performance and streamline their processes.
Claroty helps food & beverage companies become operationally resilient and maximize their productivity by offering built-for-CPS cybersecurity solution that provides actionable insights that reduce cyber risk–comprised of our Exposure Management, Network Protection, Secure Access, and Threat Detection. Implementing the above solutions helps companies focus on production, drive innovation, and remain competitive in today’s connected landscape.
Protect Operational Integrity
As CPS become increasingly interconnected–simple, secure, and reliable access to operational networks has shifted from a convenience into a necessity. Traditional access solutions like VPNs and jump servers have proven increasingly ineffective and inefficient for providing access to industrial networks because they were not built for the unique operational constraints, security considerations, or personnel needs of their users.
Claroty xDome Secure Access (SA) is a purpose-built remote access solution catered to meet the specific needs of the OT domain. It operationalizes the balance between frictionless access and secure control over third-party interactions with CPS–enhancing productivity, reducing risk and administrative complexities, and ensuring compliance across both cloud and on-premises operations.
Secure Access to Operations
Due to the unique nature of food & beverage operations, IT solutions are generally incompatible with the variety of assets housed in these environments, leading to gaps in visibility. Additionally, the process-sensitive environments in which these assets are found can prove difficult to discover with standard means – no matter the processing line or plant location. These gaps create a weak foundation on which additional security controls can be added in order to secure business-critical operations.
Visibility is foundational to securing CPS — this is no different in the Food & Beverage sector. Achieving a comprehensive asset inventory of all OT, IoT, BAS, and other CPS across all process sites and plants is the first step towards cyber risk reduction. Claroty employs multiple, distinct discovery methods to solve the visibility challenge for food & beverage manufacturers. Claroty’s asset discovery capabilities create a centralized inventory that serves as the foundation for CPS cybersecurity use cases such as exposure management, threat detection, and network protection.
OT Asset Visibility
The food & beverage sector is frequently a target of choice for cyber threats due to the valuable nature of its output and potential impact on international food supply, underscoring the critical need for CPS threat detection. However, the unique assets used in these environments are not always compatible with IT-centric threat detection solutions – rendering them ineffective at detecting known and unknown threats.
Claroty deep expertise in assets enables us to continuously monitor their behaviors for known and emerging threats. Claroty’s automatically profiles all assets, communications, and processes in industrial networks to identify threat signatures, indicators of compromise, or to alert on critical change operations on OT assets. Claroty’s seamlessly integrates with existing IT tech stacks in order to bridge the IT-OT gap.
OT Threat Detection
The Molson Coors, JBS, Lion, and Dole ransomware attacks are merely a few of seemingly countless disruptive cybersecurity incidents that have affected the food & beverage sector in recent years. Upticks in the frequency and impact of such incidents has since elicited robust responses from governments in the form of new recommendations and regulations that encourage – or, in some cases, mandate – that food & beverage companies take action to secure OT.
Claroty’s industrial cybersecurity portfolio is purpose-built to satisfy regulatory requirements, implement industry standards, best practices, and frameworks, streamline audits, and minimize non-compliance. Reports for these standards can be customized within our solutions and scheduled for automatic export on specific internals, ensuring stakeholders and decision makers are always informed on the state of their production environment.
Regulations and Compliance
Despite most organizations having some level of security infrastructure in place, these tools are not always applicable or useful in industrial environments. This is because these tools lack the specialized knowledge on asset communication, business process, and architectural constraints that is required in order to properly apply their controls.
Claroty’s vast technical ecosystem includes ready-made integrations with a variety of asset management, SIEM, SOAR, network infrastructure, and other leading tools that enable you to further optimize workflows across multiple parts of your organization. Leveraging your existing tech stack with Claroty helps to extend core cybersecurity controls from those solutions into your CPS environment.
Extend Existing Infrastructure
Securing the OT environments that underpin food & beverage processing, production, and packaging requires that companies follow three key principles:
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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:
Claroty xDome is a highly flexible, modular SaaS-based solution that supports your entire industrial cybersecurity journey.
Claroty xDome Secure Access delivers frictionless, reliable, and secure remote access for internal and third-party industrial personnel.
Claroty Continuous Threat Detection (CTD) is a robust solution that delivers comprehensive cybersecurity controls for industrial environments.
Want to learn more about how Claroty's portfolio will empower you to achieve cyber and operational resilience?
Enhance network visibility with Claroty's granular intelligence of connected devices used for endpoint profiling through roles and role-mapping rules to create effective enforcement policies, through Aruba's ClearPass Policy Manager.
The Claroty AirWave integration allows Claroty to connect with Aruba AirWave server and import visibility data for wired and wireless devices, that are connected using AirWave infrastructure.
NAC, Network Management
xDome/Medigate/CTD
Visibility & Insights, NSM
Aruba AirWave, Aruba ClearPass Policy Manager
Claroty
The Claroty CTD Connector for AUVESY versiondog fuses CTD’s XIoT visibility with versiondog’s data management capabilities to automate, optimize, and centralize an organization's inventory, risk and vulnerability assessment and correlation, and backup and recovery coverage for OT assets.
Version Management
CTD
CTD
VersionDog
Claroty
Claroty shares device profiles, rule-sets, risk attributes, and application information with Check Point’s IoT Protect SmartConsole for an integrated firewall management experience.
Firewall
xDome/Medigate/CTD
NSM, CTD
Check Point IoT Controller, Checkpoint Management & FW GW
Claroty
To enrich the value of device profiles and their security context, Claroty integrates with numerous Microsoft systems:
Microsoft DHCP enriches Claroty data by adding accurate IP assignment information.
Claroty's integration with Microsoft Intune enriches mobile-managed device profiles with OS, application version, and other security attributes.
Claroty's integration with Microsoft Active Directory brings in data elements that provide additional asset visibility and profiling context.
For patch management, Claroty's integration to Microsoft SCCM improves OS and application visibility for domain attached devices to improve passive vulnerability correlation precision and overall coverage.
Claroty's integration with Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (MDATP) enables cloud application discovery and is supportive of DLP strategies.
Network Management, DHCP, Mobile Device Management, Patch Management
xDome/Medigate
Vulnerability & Risk Management, Visibility & Insights
Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Defender ATP, Microsoft DHCP Server using WinRM, Microsoft Intune, Microsoft SCCM
Claroty
The integrated Claroty and Mission Secure solution enables organizations to gain not only complete visibility into their OT networks, but also the ability to enforce granular, context-aware cybersecurity policies.
Network Security
xDome
Mission Secure Platform
Mission Secure
CTAP Certified
Claroty integrates with the Palo Alto Networks Cortex ecosystem and the Panorama™ firewall solution by fusing its knowledge of device profiles, communication protocols, and workflow requirements, feeding them directly into Panorama to enable an enterprise-class risk management capability.
Firewall, SIEM
xDome/Medigate/CTD
NSM
Palo Alto NGFW
Claroty
The integration with QRadar enables vital communication events, alerts, and vulnerabilities data to flow into QRadar.
SIEM
xDome/Medigate/CTD
Visibility & Insights
QRadar
Claroty
By providing missing device identity and incident context, the integration between Rapid7 and Claroty provides actionable threat intelligence to Rapid7 InsightIDR.
Vulnerability Management
xDome/Medigate
Vulnerability & Risk Management
Rapid7 VM
Claroty
The integration with Rockwell Automation allows Rockwell customers to leverage Claroty's expertise with vulnerabilities, risks, and threat intelligence to enhance Rockwell AssetCentre's data management, centralized inventory, backup, and recovery coverage for the industrial networks.
Version Management
CTD, xDome
Claroty
The integration with Splunk allows it to consume xDome, CTD, and the Medigate Platform’s device profiling, vulnerability, risk insights, advanced traffic monitoring and threat/alert data. The combined solution powers Splunk’s advanced analytics, visualization and reporting capabilities. working with its native OT data model thus enabling advanced investigative detection and response workflows around the XIoT.
SIEM
xDome/Medigate/CTD
Visibility & Insights
Splunk Platform
Claroty
