Cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks is launching a new Zero Trust security solution for operational technology designed to help industrial organizations easily secure systems without having to deploy additional sensors.
The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company’s Zero Trust OT Security solution is highlighted by the new cloud-delivered Industrial OT Security service that can be enabled — without the need to install additional sensors — by any of the 61,000-plus active customers of Palo Alto Networks network security products: hardware and software Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFW) and Prisma SASE, the company says.
The solution is built on an AI-powered foundation designed to make it easy to deploy and enable customers to secure OT environments from sophisticated threats while simplifying operations, according to a press release.
“Most OT security solutions in the market fall short because they can’t identify all the assets and can only alert but don’t prevent threats. This leads to a patchwork of siloed security technologies, which can lead to security gaps,” says Anand Oswal, senior vice president of network security at Palo Alto Networks. “Our OT Security solution is designed to help organizations stay secure through granular visibility and effective inline security while meeting their availability and uptime requirements.”
According to the company, the solution uses an ML-powered OT visibility engine that recognizes hundreds of unique OT device profiles, over 1,000 OT/industrial Control System applications and has hundreds of distinct OT threat signatures to help protect hard-to-secure assets.
The service helps security teams proactively understand risk and apply controls, and it continuously observes, categorizes and visualizes asset behavior so anomalies can be discovered immediately and addressed with firewall policy, the company says.
According to Palo Alto Networks, the Zero Trust OT Security solution secures multiple OT use cases with consistent Zero Trust policies, all managed centrally:
- OT assets and networks using Palo Alto Networks NGFWs, along with the new Industrial OT Security service.
- Remote access using Prisma SASE.
- 5G-connected devices using NGFWs with Palo Alto Networks 5G-Native Security.
The Zero Trust OT Security solution and service will be available next month.
