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Cybersecurity for Transportation
Cybersecurity Challenges Facing Transportation Operators
With daily life depending on transport, the stakes are high. Transportation depends on complex systems that manage widely distributed assets, whether that’s critical air traffic control systems, smart maritime ports, connected railroads, or a datacenter housing customer data.
- Downtime and security incidents can have massive consequences—for your organization and for the world.
- Regulations and government directives are significantly raising the bar for security and reporting.
- Complex OT systems are getting connected to digital systems, increasing risk.
How TSA Security Directives Are Raising the Bar
A series of TSA security directives have changed the rules for the transportation industry, from Biden’s directive to secure ports to new reporting requirements for rail and aviation. Xage delivers proactive protection to meet evolving cybersecurity regulation. The Xage Fabric strengthens your operational cybersecurity posture to safeguard critical assets anywhere they might be.
Transportation Infrastructure Under Threat
Aviation Under Attack
Both TSA and other experts warn that critical aviation infrastructure is at risk of cyber attack.
- DHS published an official notice recommending that the current cybersecurity state in US aviation be deemed an emergency, enabling greater mobilization for improvement.
- Cyber incidents at airports are increasingly causing disruption and data leakage, from Beirut to Los Angeles.
- Aviation is incredibly complex to secure given the wide array of both new and legacy technology from on-aircraft systems to airport concession vendors.
Minimizing Maritime Risk
CISA and others have warned that Chinese hacking group Volt Typhoon has been establishing persistence in US critical infrastructure. In 2024, the White House issued an Executive Order bolstering the U.S. Coast Guard’s ability to address cyber risk at maritime ports.
- Malware that spread widely across transportation infrastructure was discovered during an investigation into an intrusion impacting a US port.
- Third party risk is high in ports and other maritime infrastructure where many third party personnel pass through and countless vendors support functions like ship maintenance and cargo pickup.
- The complex supply chains of maritime organizations can increase risk, in both hardware like cranes and software.
Railroads in Transformation
It’s hard to have operational technology with higher stakes than in rail, where lives and billions of dollars worth of transported goods depend on it.
- Railroad operators, and the transportation industry as a whole, are rapidly adopting new connected operational technologies that enable enormously beneficial innovation, but also introduce new levels of cyber risk.
- New TSA guidelines mandate substantial improvements in network segmentation, access control, and more.
- The overlap of private and public organizations complicate the implementation of new cybersecurity controls.
Securing Distributed Assets Without Disrupting Operations
Enable remote access for maintenance and regular operations without disruption
Prevent cyberattacks driven by stolen credentials, unsecure third parties, or software vulnerabilities
Manage privileged access and secure every interaction across distributed assets and infrastructure
Software Supply Chain Risk
The NotPetya attack on global shipping giant Møller-Maersk is one harrowing example of supply chain risk. It started with one little piece of tax software and caused an estimated $10 billion or more in damages. But transportation faces challenges both in the software supply chain and the physical supply chain.
- In ports, Chinese-made cranes were found to have concerning communication capabilities built in.
- In 2022, Danish train service was halted due to a cyberattack on one of their asset management subcontractors.
- Expeditors International, a transport logistics company, was sued by its customers after a cyberattack prevented it from shipping freight, stalling deliveries for Roomba maker iRobot and others.
Modernize Transportation Security Without Disrupting Operations
You can protect your operations from escalating cyberattacks without preventing innovation. It starts by modernizing secure access to vital operational technology assets using an approach grounded in zero trust principles.
Deploy Without Disruption
Xage overlays your existing assets without requiring agents or network changes—securing diverse and legacy assets.
Isolate Sensitive Systems
Xage provides granular access control and carefully layered security, isolating more sensitive environments from the rest of your infrastructure.
Simplify Secure Access
Provide secure remote access while controlling every interaction and session with granular access policies, MFA, and more—to prevent attacks.
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Unified Zero Trust Access and Protection for Operational Technology (OT) and Cyber Physical Systems (CPS)
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Achieve Zero Trust Access Control & Remote Access with Xage
Xage accelerates the adoption of zero trust for diverse, complex systems combining legacy physical infrastructure and new internet-connected digital systems. By controlling all access and data movement, Xage prevents ransomware and other malware from moving laterally, and prevents sophisticated attackers from leveraging living-off-the-land techniques to persist and expand inside a compromised environment.
Xage is purpose-built for operational technology and securing the OT-IT-cloud interconnected environments commonplace in the transportation industry. Its identity-centric approach reduces the complexity of real-time, multi-party secure access to distributed assets. With Xage, your security teams can enact granular, just-in-time access controlled down to the asset level in a single, simple platform.
Xage’s unique mesh architecture removes any need to rip and replace your current investments or jeopardize productivity to protect your OT, IT, and cloud infrastructure. In addition, the mesh architecture provides built-in resiliency and high availability, with no single point of failure.
Privileged Access Management
Unify privilege management, prevent credential abuse and block cyberattacks.
Microsegmentation
Reduce attack surface and achieve granular security to prevent attacks.
