NIST Cybersecurity

Sepio follows the NIST Cybersecurity guidelines and best practices by identifying and detecting all the devices in your organization infrastructure – even those you were unaware of.

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Sepio and NIST Cybersecurity Framework

Sepio is adopting the National Institute of Standards, NIST Cybersecurity Framework – standards, guidelines, and best practices to reduce and manage cybersecurity risk on enterprises and organizations.

With a proactive identification and detection of all devices in the network and 100% visibility, Sepio protects organizations and reduces the cybersecurity risk.

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NIST adoption and IT secure networks

Uncontrolled cybersecurity risk, because organizations cannot protect their networks from IT devices that they cannot see.

Sepio’s solution offers Layer 1 visibility to help enterprises fulfill many of the CSF controls. By using Layer 1 data to accurately detect and identify all IT/OT/IoT assets on USB and network interfaces – managed, unmanaged, and hidden – Sepio’s solution supports and strengthens overall cybersecurity efforts.

NIST cybersecurity framework and Sepio’s activities and outcomes

Quotidian, traffic-based security solutions fail to cover Layer 1 (the Physical Layer), resulting in an inaccurate asset inventory, unaccounted-for vulnerabilities, and unidentified risks, all of which hinder further cybersecurity efforts. In turn, this lack of visibility means alignment with the CSF is limited as many of the controls cannot be met. Naturally, the enterprise suffers from weak cybersecurity and resilience capabilities, which ultimately puts it at risk.

Sepio’s solution fulfill many of the CSF controls:

 

  • Identify, which refers to detect all devices, 100% visibility, and manage cybersecurity risks. Sepio detects and identifies all IT, OT, and IoT assets, whether they are managed, unmanaged or hidden, using multiple Layer 1 parameters and machine learning, thereby providing complete asset visibility.
  • Protect, which refers to risk scores on vulnerable devices, managing their risk to ensure that critical infrastructure services are delivered. Through Hardware Access Control (HAC) and Zero Trust Hardware Access (ZTHA), Sepio enhances and automates policy enforcement, preventing unauthorized devices from gaining access and causing disruptions to critical operations.
  • Detect, by actually identifying all devices, it is possible to define how a cybersecurity events are identified. By identifying anomalies in a device’s ID and digital fingerprint in real-time, Sepio detects malicious/rogue devices, or those which breach the pre-defined policies established by the system administrator.
  • Respond, by seeing ALL assets and being more accurate in managing their risk and applying cybersecurity control measures, when a event is detected. When a device breaches the pre-set policy or gets identified as malicious, Sepio instantly sends an alert and initiates a mitigation process that blocks the device.

Let us show you how Sepio’s solution can achieve 100% visibility, using Physical Layer (L1) as the new data source.

Sepio’s solution generates a physical layer fingerprint vector for every connected device, based on multiple L1 parameters, which is then analyzed by our ML-based algorithm resulting in a new visibility level never available before.