A Purpose-built Solution that Enables Secure Data Flows for the Oil & Gas Industry.

Owl’s hardware-enforced protocol filtering diode ensures safety, speed, and simplified compliance.

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Check out the below resources to learn more about how oil and gas organizations are preventing cyber-attacks and securely sharing data between OT networks and destination networks, like historians, SIEM platforms, IT networks, and the cloud.

Prevent Pipeline Disruptions

The oil and gas industry faces two major challenges when it comes to cybersecurity; protecting Operational Technology (OT) networks to prevent disruptions and outages and securely sharing data to monitor upstream, midstream, and downstream operations. Previous methods of securing OT networks, like relying on software-based firewalls, no longer suffice as threats like ransomware rise and become more sophisticated. While complete isolation of OT networks provides the highest level of security, it prevents the ability to get critical network data to those that need it. The only solution for truly protecting oil and gas OT networks and enabling secure data mobility is by implementing hardware-enforced data diode cybersecurity.

Securely Transfer Data To Those Who Need It

Hardware-enforced data diodes provide oil and gas organizations with a secure way to transfer critical data one-way out of OT networks to destinations like IT networks, historians, SIEM platforms, or the cloud, without introducing risk to OT networks. Owl data diodes are comprised of two communication cards that work as a pair. The first card is the “send” card and only has electronic components that allow it to send data one-way, with no ability to receive. The second card, the “receive” card, only has electronic components that allow it to receive data. This architecture only allows data to flow in one direction and it physically cannot travel the other way. Because a data diode is only physically capable of sending data one-way, a data diode creates a physical barrier or “air gap” between an OT network and a destination. This prevents data leakage, eliminates the threat of malware, and fully protects the sending network from external threats through the data diode’s network path.

Meeting Regulatory Compliance

Oil & gas organizations are held to a higher standard when it comes to the cybersecurity technologies they deploy compared to other critical infrastructure industries, resulting in the need to deploy solutions that adhere to compliance requirements and provide the highest level of security possible to prevent power delivery outages. Regulatory compliance standards that are relevant to the oil & gas industry are NRC, NERC-CIP, and NIST. Owl protocol filtering diodes map to these regulatory controls and are recommended as a best practice for securing OT networks, while enabling data mobility.

NRC

NRC: Regulatory Guide 5.71 – C.3.2.1 Security Defensive Architecture

 

NERC-CIP

NERC CIP-003-7: Attachment 1, Section 3.1
NERC CIP-005-6: R1 – Electronic Security Perimeter
NERC CIP-005-6: R2 – Remote Access Management
NERC-CIP-007-6: R1 – Ports and Services
NERC-CIP-007-6: R2 – Patch Management
NERC-CIP-007-6: R3 – Malicious Code Prevention
NERC-CIP-007-6: R4 – Security Event Monitoring
NERC-CIP-007-6: R5 – System Access Control
NERC-CIP-010-2: R2 – Configuration Monitoring

 

NIST

NIST 800-82, rev.2 – 5.1: Boundary Protection
NIST 800-82, rev.2 – 5.11: Unidirectional Gateways

Solutions for Utilities

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Owl Talon One™

Available in 1U rackmount and DIN-Rail form factors, the Owl Talon One provides safe, secure one-way transfers at up to 1Gbps. Transfer multiple, simultaneous data types & protocols on a single device and via a single PCIe card that meets Protocol Filtering Diode (PFD) standards. Also available in bidirectional configuration for secure, round-trip data transfer.

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Owl Talon Torrent™

Available in 1U or 2x 1U rackmount form factor, the Owl Talon Torrent provides safe, secure, ultra high-speed one-way transfers at up to 100Gbps. Transfer multiple, simultaneous data types & protocols via our diode card pair that meets Protocol Filtering Diode (PFD) standards.

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