OT Secure Remote Access

Address the Top OT Security Threats

The convergence of operational technologies (OT) and information technologies (IT) can expose major security gaps across cyber-physical systems. BeyondTrust enables organizations to secure industrial networks without disrupting operations, compromising safety or risking non-compliance.

Gain complete visibility over OT remote access, including vendor access
Onboard and manage all privileged identities, accounts, and credentials (passwords, SSH keys, secrets, etc.) for humans and machines
Enforce least privilege over access, endpoints, and sessions
Enable network segmentation and microsegmentation to limit lateral movement risk
Implement security best practices for vendor access, including credential management, least privilege, and session management

In this session, Diana Kelley explores the differences between IT and OT and the important characteristics that are shared across both. Rather than being at odds with each other, IT and OT teams can be better together.

Apply Zero Trust Remote Access for OT Systems

BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access enables organizations to secure industrial networks while allowing the use of local tools to maintain user workflows, and without disrupting operations, compromising safety or risking non-compliance. Our solution provides secure, least-privilege remote access in a single, flexible solution that simplifies deployments and ensures maximum scalability—while empowering remote operators and vendors to be productive. Connect to any device via the GUI or protocol—from anywhere. The product also supports legacy connection methods through a secure tunnel.

Privileged Remote Access secures OT systems by:

Enforcing the philosophy of least privilege for remote access sessions

Treating managed devices with the same level of trust as an unmanaged device – which is zero

Providing application access independent of network access

Recording all activities performed using remote access and disabling functionality such as copy/paste

Enabling API security to protect the integrity of data being sent from IoT devices to back-end systems
Enforcing 2FA
Encrypting all communications between the user and the remote systems using TLS 1.3.

Applying the granularity of Privileged Remote Access to achieve Zero Trust objectives ensures all access is appropriate, managed, and documented, regardless of how the perimeter has been redefined.

"The majority of the systems within the buildings being accessed are building control systems, like smart elevators, surveillance systems and HVAC units where it is not possible to install antivirus software. We recognize that PAM is one of the most important tenets of a modern cybersecurity program and a must-have for a zero trust architecture and robust BYOD security framework."

Curtis Jack, Manager of Technical Engineering, Oxford Properties Group

"Our use case (with BeyondTrust PRA) only touches the tip of the iceberg of what we can be doing…We've been searching for a long time for a partner that could help us with different types of issues we have in the OT environment, and BeyondTrust is it for us."

VP of Industrial Cyber and Digital Security, Global Industrial Automation Company

With BeyondTrust Privileged Access, we could tighten our control over what privileged users could and could not do, as well as audit their actions. It’s a far superior approach than just giving them unrestricted VPN access.

Tommy Green, VP Of Information Systems & Technology, Amoco Federal

Compare VPN to Privileged Remote Access

Provide secure and scalable remote access for operators, suppliers, and third-party vendors ... without using VPNs or other legacy access tools. Using BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access as a replacement to your corporate VPN enables operators, suppliers or third-party vendors to access OT environments, eliminates remote access blind spots, reduces the attack surface, and drives productivity. Protect your processes and profits while significantly reducing security vulnerabilities and incidents.

	VPN	Privileged Remote Access
Remote Access	✓	✓
Secure Connectivity	✓	✓
Network Layer Access (Protocol Tunneling)	✓	✓
Encrypted Traffic	✓	✓
Application Layer Virtualization		✓
Remote Desktop		✓
Proxied RDP Access		✓
Proxied VNC Access		✓
Proxied SSH Access		✓
Application Session Monitoring		✓
Application Session Recording		✓
Just in Time Access		✓
Zero Trust Architecture		✓
Privileged Access Management Integration		✓
ITSM Integration for Access		✓
Password Management / Credential Storage		✓
Cloud or On-Premise Deployments using Physical or Virtual Appliance		✓
Agentless Access		✓
Extensive Operating System and Platform Support		✓
Prevention of Lateral Movement		✓
Audit and Session Reporting		✓

Segregate Your IT and OT Networks.

BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access allows you to maintain logical and physical network separation for remote access to operational technologies, in compliance with the Purdue model.

Onboard and Secure All Human & Non-human / Machine Identities

BeyondTrust Password Safe is the most comprehensive enterprise password management solution and can ensure all accounts and credentials associated with any privileged access are onboarded and secured. The products comprehensive API unlocks high levels of automation and efficiency.

Continuous discovery, onboarding and management of passwords and SSH keys, injecting into sessions, masking them from end users.
Extend support to legacy platforms and non-human accounts (app2app, services, databases etc.)
Enables ‘break-glass’ access to credentials in case of unexpected solution downtime

Enforce Least Privilege Across Every OT User, Device, & System

BeyondTrust provides powerful endpoint privilege management and application control capabilities that help you quickly lock down OT environments, while maintaining user productivity and operations uptime. Protect endpoints across Windows, macOS, Unix, and Linux systems, as well as non-traditional endpoints, such as network devices, IoT / IIoT, ICS systems, virtual machines, and other devices found across OT environments.

Lock down your environment by removing admin rights across workstations and servers and and enforcing a strict allow list for supported terminals
Eliminate standing privileges and implement the principle of least privilege and a just-in-time access model across cyber-physical systems
Prevent accidental misconfigurations and other errors

Learn about Privilege Management for Unix & Linux

Learn about Privilege Management for Windows & Mac

Powerful OT Security Partner Integrations

Tenable.ot and BeyondTrust

Enables organizations to implement least privilege access across their OT environment, allowing users – including vendors – only the access appropriate to do their jobs – and no more.

BeyondTrust, Tenable.ot, and Ping Identity

Enables organizations to block access to OT devices from all assets (Windows, Linux, Mac), and to enable a just-in-time model to enable legitimate access.

ServiceNow and BeyondTrust

Allows organizations to create a single system of record and action for their OT environment, improving security, uptime and driving outcomes across your manufacturing operations.

BeyondTrust, SailPoint, and Tenable.ot

Combines to provide immediate insight into all accounts, entitlements, policies, and actions across all of your enterprise’s OT environment ensuring access always adheres to security and compliance protocols.

OT Security Case Study - Oxford Properties Group

"The majority of the systems within the buildings being accessed are not traditional IT systems. They are building control systems, like smart elevators, surveillance systems and HVAC units where it is not possible to install antivirus software. We recognize that privileged access management is one of the most of important tenets of a modern cybersecurity program and a must-have for a zero trust architecture and robust BYOD security framework.”

With BeyondTrust’s Privileged Remote Access solution, we can make sure that access to any part of our infrastructure is impossible unless we say so... We can enforce a policy of least privilege by giving just the right level of access needed for their role; plus, the ability to schedule when vendors have access to which systems and for how long.

"This is the first time we have ever implemented a security product that made the end user’s job so much easier. Our building managers previously managed dozens of different credentials for staff and vendors. Password Safe centrally manages every credential, so they now have only one password for them, one password for vendors and one password for their staff."

Curtis Jack, Manager of Technical Engineering, Oxford Properties Group

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Apply Zero Trust Remote Access for OT Systems

Compare VPN to Privileged Remote Access

Segregate Your IT and OT Networks.

Onboard and Secure All Human & Non-human / Machine Identities

Enforce Least Privilege Across Every OT User, Device, & System

Powerful OT Security Partner Integrations

OT Security Case Study - Oxford Properties Group

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