Solution Brief
Pre-Validated and Characterized Cybersecurity Solutions on Stratus Platforms
Deploy cybersecurity protection from the edge to the enterprise
In today’s evolving digital landscape, cybersecurity is a critical requirement from the edge to the enterprise. Because of this, organizations are turning to dependable, high availability and fault tolerant Stratus Edge Computing platforms to deploy and run cybersecurity solutions. Stratus collaborates closely with trusted, industry leading cybersecurity software companies to pre-validate and characterize cybersecurity solutions, enabling teams to consolidate IT and OT workloads in a single Stratus compute platform backed by fault tolerance.
Stratus platforms provide the fault tolerant reliability required by OT applications with the flexibility, open standards, and manageability required by IT teams. This unified approach not only ensures robust protection of OT applications but allows IT teams to extend their cybersecurity protection to the edge, using their standard toolsets to deploy and support both OT and IT workloads at scale. Using these pre-validated architectures, organizations can deploy comprehensive cybersecurity solutions across the entire infrastructure with ease, protecting environments and meeting regulatory requirements at the edge or enterprise.
Stratus pre-validated architectures simplify deployment of comprehensive cybersecurity applications
In the evolving landscape of cybersecurity, organizations encounter numerous challenges that require innovative solutions and strategies. Below are some of the most pressing issues when deploying and managing cybersecurity solutions:
- Variable threats: Cyber threats are constantly evolving, with an expanding attack surface and increasingly sophisticated techniques used by attackers to breach IT and OT systems. Threat actors may include nation-states, cybercriminal groups, hacktivists, and insiders, each with unique motivations and capabilities.
- Limits of legacy devices/equipment: OT systems often rely on legacy and outdated technologies not designed with cybersecurity in mind. These systems often lack built-in security features and are difficult to update or replace, leaving them vulnerable to cyber threats and operational disruptions.
- Integration of IT & OT: As IT and OT systems become more interconnected, they create complex networks that span across traditional boundaries. This interconnectedness increases the attack surface and complicates the management and security of the entire ecosystem.
- Edge deployment: Installing cybersecurity solutions in remote or understaffed environments is challenging due to issues with ensuring reliable physical access, consistent power and network connectivity, and the ability to promptly address technical issues and hardware failures.
- Resources & cost: Enterprise deployment requires significant compute resources and can be costly due to the need for continuous monitoring, real-time data analysis, and sophisticated algorithms and hardware used to detect and mitigate advanced threats across diverse IT infrastructures.
Stratus and its cybersecurity partners
Stratus leverages the unmatched reliability of its high availability/fault tolerance (HA/FT) platforms and closely collaborates with trusted cybersecurity partners. These partnerships deliver cybersecurity solutions that work seamlessly with both IT and OT workloads, empowering customers to deploy the most suitable cybersecurity tools on a unified platform. This ensures smooth integration and scalability across IT and OT systems with minimal support effort.
Stratus provides customers flexibility and choice by remaining solution-agnostic. Its interoperable high availability and fault tolerant platforms supports a broad spectrum of cybersecurity tools and applications, allowing organizations to tailor strategies to meet specific needs and preferences.
By leveraging the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, organizations can plan, assess, and enhance their cybersecurity capabilities. Stratus’ open computing platforms enable organizations to confidently deploy a comprehensive suite of cybersecurity solutions to identify, protect, detect, respond, recover, and govern effectively.
Stratus enhances cybersecurity with zero-touch computing platforms that simplify deployment and protect IT and OT applications
Why Stratus Computing platforms?
Stratus significantly enhances cybersecurity deployments by delivering zero-touch Edge Computing platforms that are easy to deploy and maintain, addressing the complexities of modern IT and OT environments while protecting against interruptions and cyber threats, and ensuring robust, autonomous cybersecurity. This includes the following:
- Consolidate and protect workloads with fault tolerance: Stratus addresses the challenges of consolidating cybersecurity solutions with IT/OT applications, simplifying the management, monitoring, and protection of complex workloads across diverse environments. This strengthens an organization’s cybersecurity posture, extending protection from the enterprise to remote locations.
- Deploy pre-validated architectures: Stratus collaborates with partners to offer pre-validated, performance-tested cybersecurity on its computing platforms. This approach streamlines integration into IT and OT environments, reducing complexity and risk while ensuring immediate protection. It simplifies deployment and management, adhering to best practices and compliance standards.
- Manage and scale with ease: Running virtualization on Stratus platforms enables organizations to consolidate multiple applications, including cybersecurity, onto a single HA/FT platform. This integration with critical applications like HMI, SCADA, historians, and other IT/OT software across a variety of applications and industries ensures robust protection without operational disruptions.
