An Elevator Ride with Mission Secure

Every company has an elevator pitch. But what if your building doesn’t have an elevator? What if you work from home? We don’t want you to miss out on our elevator pitch, especially now that we’ve launched our new Sentinel 5.0 platform.

And so, we’ve put our pitch in writing. If you were on an elevator ride with us (maybe a long ride to a high floor), this is what we’d have to say.

What does Mission Secure do?

Thanks for asking! Mission Secure protects operational technology (OT) networks and assets from cyber threats, using industry-first policy enforcement technology.

When we talk about policy enforcement, we mean active OT authorization and validation rules. For example, rules that permit an engineering workstation to send commands to a PLC only if the right user is logged in, or the workstation has the right applications installed, or it’s the right time of day, or it’s in the right part of the facility, or all of the above.

That type of enforcement is almost unheard-of today, but we believe that’s the direction the industry needs to move in the long term. And we’ve built our platform with that in mind, to create a path from square one—where you don’t know what assets you have or how they’re communicating—all the way to a fully mature Zero Trust environment, where nothing happens that hasn’t been defined and authorized in advance.

OK. How does this policy enforcement happen?

Our platform is built around a policy engine that lets administrators configure and deploy rules based on hundreds of different parameters. For example, you can set conditions based on an asset’s firmware version, patch status, IP address, CVSS score, or even the signal value coming from a level 0 device.

Once your rules are defined in our management (Read more...)