Real-Time Protection for Critical Energy Infrastructure

Following the infamous Colonial Pipeline Cyber breach, new directives were introduced to protect both physical pipelines and their associated digital infrastructure. Koniag helped this domestic energy provider develop and deploy their cybersecurity and change management hardware and software, up-leveling their Industrial Control Networks operating in Alaska and the Lower 48.

Primary Goals

Identify mission-critical assets and vulnerabilities

Modernize tactics, software, and hardware to detect and segregate threats in real-time

Partner with the client to create and execute implementation plans

Areas for focus

Vulnerability Assessments
Anomaly Detection
Network Segregation
Continuity of Operations
Change Management Operations
Disaster Recovery

The work accomplished

Koniag led the creation and implementation of an orchestrated series of software and hardware upgrades to improve the energy provider’s Industrial Control Networks.

The work canvassed asset vulnerability mapping, hardware deployment for network segregation, real-time anomaly and threat detection, and the establishment and maintenance planning for a threat database, enabling faster responses against identified threats.

Koniag also created an asset back-up system for hardware and software to streamline version creation and automate comparisons, flagging changes, with information flowing into a change order approval system.

Results delivered

The domestic energy producer met the obligations required under the TSA’s new security directive, ensuring their assets and critical infrastructure were properly prepared to mitigate attacks and swiftly move to hardened contingency plans, minimizing disruption.