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Industrial Cybersecurity for the Oil & Gas Industry

Claroty empowers upstream, midstream, and downstream oil & gas companies with the industrial cybersecurity controls needed to protect their OT, IoT, IIoT, and BMS assets, as well as all other cyber-physical systems (CPS) in their OT environments.

The Industrial Cybersecurity Challenge facing Oil & Gas Companies

Global fuel shortages, volatile barrel prices, record-high inflation, worsening source depletion, and growing prioritization of sustainability are among many factors driving digital transformation in oil & gas. From groundbreaking innovations that optimize exploration and production, to cloud connectivity that correlates real-time density and porosity data across platforms and pipelines to boost throughput, to robotic drilling and refining systems that enhance efficiency and safety while reducing emissions — the benefits of automation, IT/OT connectivity, and cyber-physical systems (CPS) are why their once-manual, analog counterparts are becoming relics of the past.

But for many oil & gas companies, these benefits are being outpaced by industrial cybersecurity risks. This unfortunate reality has repeatedly manifested in the form of ransomware and other cyber attacks that exploit security weaknesses in the CPS on which the availability, integrity, and safety of oil & gas operations and infrastructure rely. Mitigating these risks and, ultimately, gaining cyber and operational resilience requires a new approach that extends far beyond traditional, IT-oriented security solutions. Enter Claroty.

Key Principles for Securing OT in Oil & Gas

Securing the OT environments that underpin upstream, midstream, and/or downstream oil & gas operations and infrastructure requires following three key principles:

1. Gain visibility into all CPS in your OT environment

Asset visibility is foundational to industrial cybersecurity — which is why all segments of the oil & gas industry must attain a complete, real-time inventory of all OT, IoT, and BMS assets and other CPS across all drilling sites, platforms, pipelines, plants, and refineries. It’s also why Claroty is proud to deliver the industry-leading visibility our oil & gas customers need to secure the OT environments on which their critical assets and operations rely.

2. Integrate your existing IT tools & workflows with OT

Since most CPS in upstream, midstream, and downstream oil & gas use proprietary protocols and legacy systems, they are incompatible with IT-oriented solutions — but that doesn’t mean such solutions have no place in OT. Rather than require customers to expand their already-extensive tech stacks, Claroty integrates with them. As a result, our oil & gas 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 for our oil & gas customers. After providing visibility into all CPS and integrating your existing IT tools and workflows with OT, Claroty extends your existing 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 upstream, midstream, and downstream oil & gas companies to extend — and further optimize — the following cybersecurity use cases and governance areas from IT to OT:

Asset Discovery

Claroty’s automated asset discovery capabilities create a centralized inventory that serves as the foundation for all cyber resilience use cases, equipping oil & gas companies with real-time visibility into all OT, IoT, and BMS assets and all other CPS across your OT environment.

Vulnerability Management

Claroty extends your IT vulnerability management controls to OT by automatically detecting, assessing, and recommending remedial actions for CPS vulnerabilities across drilling sites, platforms, pipelines, plants, and refineries, enabling you to prioritize and deploy mitigations to minimize risk exposure.

Network Protection

Claroty hardens OT environments in all oil & gas segments against cyber threats by defining network segmentation policies that can be easily enforced by your existing firewall and NAC solutions, as well as providing secure remote access purpose-built with controls for internal and third-party OT users.

Threat Detection

Claroty enables oil & gas companies to continuously monitor for and respond to the earliest indicators of threats — ranging from ransomware attacks, to equipment failures, to rogue insiders — before they impact operational availability, process integrity, physical safety, regulatory compliance, or other critical assets.

Boosting Operational Resilience from IT to OT with Claroty

The Claroty journey to operational resilience equips upstream, midstream, and downstream oil & gas companies to extend and optimize the following security and operational use cases and governance areas from IT to OT:

Asset Discovery

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

Change Management

Change management is essential to governance, compliance, maintenance, vendor management, 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.

Asset Management

Claroty streamlines and enhances asset management for oil & gas companies by harnessing 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.

OT Remote Access

Claroty Secure Remote Access (SRA) 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.

Streamlining Compliance for all Oil & Gas Segments

Complying with industry standards and regulations is a complex, ever-evolving endeavor for organizations in all oil & gas segments. Claroty helps streamline audits and compliance not only with respect to cybersecurity but also in adjacent areas — from safety, to availability, to sustainability, and more. Highlights include:

Regulations & Legislation

Claroty’s support for the entire CPS security journey supports and simplifies oil & gas companies' compliance with the requirements set forth by: TSA, EPA, NERC-CIP, NIS 2.0, RCE, SOCI/SLACIP, TRIPC, MSE-428(98), and many more.

Recommended Practices & Frameworks

Compliance with the following cybersecurity practices and standards is seamlessly enabled by the controls offered by Claroty’s portfolio: CISA CPGs, IEC 62443, NIST CSF, CIS, ISO 27001, U.S. Executive Order 14028, and many more.

Why the Oil & Gas Industry Trusts Claroty

Leading oil & gas companies globally trust Claroty to protect the critical CPS on which the safety, security, and mobility of our society depend. Here's why:

35+
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.

400+
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.

Top 3
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.

“With Claroty, we’re getting information on activities that we would never be able to detect previously, even the people offshore. You immediately start getting alerts, so this is very impressive.”

Enrico Piccini
Discipline Manager, Instrument & Telecom at BW Offshore

Technical Partner Spotlight

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

Our Products

xDome

Claroty xDome is a highly flexible, modular SaaS-based solution that supports your entire industrial cybersecurity journey.

SRA

Claroty Secure Remote Access (SRA) delivers frictionless, reliable, and secure remote access for internal and third-party industrial personnel.

CTD

Claroty Continuous Threat Detection (CTD) is a robust solution that delivers comprehensive cybersecurity controls for industrial environments.

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NAC, Network Management

Integrates With

xDome/Medigate/CTD

Requires Module

Visibility & Insights, NSM

Integrated 3rd Party Product

Aruba AirWave, Aruba ClearPass Policy Manager

Integration Built & Supported By

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.

Information

Category

Version Management

Integrates With

CTD

Requires Module

CTD

Integrated 3rd Party Product

VersionDog

Integration Built & Supported By

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.

Information

Category

Firewall

Integrates With

xDome/Medigate/CTD

Requires Module

NSM, CTD

Integrated 3rd Party Product

Check Point IoT Controller, Checkpoint Management & FW GW

Integration Built & Supported By

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.

Information

Category

Network Management, DHCP, Mobile Device Management, Patch Management

Integrates With

xDome/Medigate

Requires Module

Vulnerability & Risk Management, Visibility & Insights

Integrated 3rd Party Product

Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Defender ATP, Microsoft DHCP Server using WinRM, Microsoft Intune, Microsoft SCCM

Integration Built & Supported By

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.

Information

Category

Network Security

Integrates With

xDome

Integrated 3rd Party Product

Mission Secure Platform

Integration Built & Supported By

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.

Information

Category

Firewall, SIEM

Integrates With

xDome/Medigate/CTD

Requires Module

NSM

Integrated 3rd Party Product

Palo Alto NGFW

Integration Built & Supported By

Claroty

The integration with QRadar enables vital communication events, alerts, and vulnerabilities data to flow into QRadar.

Information

Category

SIEM

Integrates With

xDome/Medigate/CTD

Requires Module

Visibility & Insights

Integrated 3rd Party Product

QRadar

Integration Built & Supported By

Claroty

By providing missing device identity and incident context, the integration between Rapid7 and Claroty provides actionable threat intelligence to Rapid7 InsightIDR.

Information

Category

Vulnerability Management

Integrates With

xDome/Medigate

Requires Module

Vulnerability & Risk Management

Integrated 3rd Party Product

Rapid7 VM

Integration Built & Supported By

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.

Information

Category

Version Management

Integrates With

CTD, xDome

Integration Built & Supported By

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.

Claroty xDome in Splunk Store
Claroty CTD in Splunk Store

Information

Category

SIEM

Integrates With

xDome/Medigate/CTD

Requires Module

Visibility & Insights

Integrated 3rd Party Product

Splunk Platform

Integration Built & Supported By

Claroty

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