March 23, 2pm PT: Bill Moore, Founder and CEO at XONA Systems
XONA helps utilities, manufacturers, and other critical-infrastructure operators let employees or vendors connect to sensitive systems remotely without exposing the underlying network directly. In other words, they're secure remote access (one of the five ICS cybersecurity controls).
Right before RSAC, they announced Active Defense, a feature in its secure remote access platform that can automatically stop or limit suspicious OT remote sessions in real time instead of waiting for manual response. The technology is interesting in a few ways, but I see their integrations with OT visibility platforms being at the top of that list. By pulling in signals from those vendors to identify potential anomalous behavior in the remote access session, you can potentially cut the bad actors off at the knees if they get access to a system using historically insecure remote access tools.
Bill also talked about their usage of AI in a couple of key areas that are going to be showing up in the not-too-distant future. I can't give specific updates, but they are going to be using AI-assisted insights to help understand operations with OT systems. Going to be interesting to see how this plays out in the critical infrastructure space!
Next update coming soon!
