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Waterfall’s™ unique advantages:

Unidirectional Security Gateway™ - provides a full solution, out of the box
Designed and built to meet Critical Infrastructure and Utilities needs
Off the shelf integral support for Historians, SCADA protocols, file transfers, streaming
Enables compliance with relevant requirements found in NERC-CIP, NIST 800.53 and 800.82, RG 5.71
Host hardware invariance - server agnostic, hardware independence
Host hardware compatibility – no need to certify hardware with host servers
Simple hardware maintenance and replacement
1GB support – hardware and software
High Availability – Integral in the product, for both hardware and software
Inherent buffering mechanisms
Official, mutually supported solutions with major vendors of SCADA, Industrial and related systems
Dual power supply – Dual power source for each Waterfall appliance

The following sections contain material and information about our technology, offerings, advantages and uniqueness and also relevant and interesting information w gather regularly about the industrial cyber security realm.

Technology

Whitepapers and Information

Regulations, Policies and Best Practices

Cyber attack “war game”

Security experts launch a cyber attack "war game" to test the nation's cyber security defenses. more

Report: Critical Infrastructures Under Constant Cyberattack Globally

Critical infrastructure systems around the world are the targets of repeated cyberattacks, according to a new global survey of technology executives in these industries. They believe some of the attacks are coming not just from individual cybercriminals but terrorists and foreign nation states. The United States and China are believed more

In the Crossfire: Critical Infrastructure in the Age of Cyber War

In an ever more networked world, the cyber vulnerabilities of critical infrastructure pose challenges to governments and owners and operators in every sector and across the globe. With the global economy still fragile after last year’s financial crisis, assuring the integrity and availability of key national industries may fall out of focus as a government more

Hackers Are Inside the Power Plant, Study Says

54 percent of IT professionals surveyed at large infrastructure companies say they’ve been infiltrated. And it’s getting worse. Security software vendor McAfee and the Center for Strategic and International Studies today released a report at the World Economic Forum that said that 54 percent of security executives interviewed at oil and gas production fields, more

NERC

Critical National Infrastructure is under a constant, yet invisible, threat from cyber hacking and cyber terror attempts that are being launched from external networks. These attacks (mainly - from the Internet) are targeting industrial Process Control Networks (PCN), Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) Networks and lower level Distributed Control Systems (DCS) and Process Control Systems (PCS) networks. more

NRC & NIST 800.53

NRC RG 5.71, currently in its Draft Final Rule, spells out the requirements for a cyber security plan to be submitted by the licensees for the NRC’s review and approval. The licensee is required to “provide high assurance that digital computer and communication systems and networks are adequately protected against cyber attacks, up to and including the design basis threat as described in Title 10 of the Code of Federal regulations (10CFR) Part73, Section 73.1.” more

Other regulations and policies

For detailed information, including white papers, regarding using Waterfall’s gateways under security policies and regulations – please contact us at info@waterfall-security.com.more

Sabotaging The System

60 Minutes: Former Chief of National Intelligence Says U.S. Unprepared for Cyber Attacks (CBS) Nothing has ever changed the world as quickly as the Internet has. Less than a decade ago, "60 Minutes" went to the Pentagon to do a story on something called information warfare, or cyber war as some people called it. It involved using computers and the Internet as more

Senators aim to protect electric grid from hackers

In the wake of recent reports describing the electric grid's vulnerabilities to hackers, two members of the U.S. Congress have introduced legislation giving federal regulators more authority to combat that possible threat. The electric grid system that keeps the United States humming is worth more than $1 trillion and keeps the lights more

Staged cyber attack reveals vulnerability in power grid

Researchers who launched an experimental cyber attack caused a generator to self-destruct, alarming the federal government and electrical industry about what might happen if such an attack were carried out on a larger scale, CNN has learned. Sources familiar with the experiment said the same attack scenario could be used against huge generators more

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