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AnsaldoEnergia has chosen Kaspersky as a strategic partner to secure plants, machinery
and industrial supply chainson its digital transformation journey.AnsaldoEnergiahas
begundeploying Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurityin order to reinforceprotection of its
operational technology (OT) networks from ICS threats.
AnsaldoEnergia operates in the power generation sector, developing its technologies to
support modern digitisation, decarbonisation and decentralisation processes. With more
than4,000 employees, 2,500 of which are based in Italy, it is one of the main international players in the power generation sector. Kaspersky has been anAnsaldoEnergia partner in IT
security since 2013, protecting the company’s endpoints with the most innovative
technologies, including the Kaspersky EDR (Endpoint Detection and Response) reactive
component— now applied to over 5,000 distributed and centralised nodes.
Protecting data and equipment is becoming an increasingly wide and more strategicpriority
for AnsaldoEnergia, especially since it started an important digital transformation process a
few years ago that involved the adoption of smart devices and connected production
plants. In addition, it plans to introduce innovative processes such as predictive maintenance in the near future. The ongoing convergence between the IT and OT worlds –
everything that concerns production plants,made possible through IoT technologies and a
business model more closely connected to the supply chain – have made the issue of
information security even more complex.This approach has been addressed through the
introduction of the Cyber OT Application Area in a three year scope for the Industrial R&D
Plant, supporting the Lighthouse Plant of AnsaldoEnergia— the first one selected by the
National Technological Cluster Intelligent Factory on behalf of the Italian Ministry of
Economic Development.
AnsaldoEnergia has decided to face these challenges by relying on Kaspersky to build a safe model thanks to the companies’ common abilities to design intrinsically safe equipment and plants. Kaspersky promotes a cyber-immunity paradigm; with a philosophy to develop an ecosystem where everything connected through technology is protected.
AnsaldoEnergia has therefore chosen to implement Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurityas its OT/ICS security solution.At the end of 2019, AnsaldoEnergia started to deploy KICS for Networks and KICS for Nodes in its OT networks. These productsare designed specifically
to protect various levels of industrial infrastructure, including SCADA, DCS, PLC, MES,
engineering workstations and network connections. A distinctive feature of this solution is
the implementation of a holistic approach to ensure the security of industrial enterprises
and critical infrastructure. Thanks to versatile and flexible settings, the solution can be
configured as needed, adapting to the requirements of the specific ICS environment. The
approach involves not only protecting industrial endpoints, but also using passive
monitoring technologies to identify anomalies and detect possible network intrusions.
“We chose Kaspersky as our strategic security partner because the company can not only
give usthe expertise to protect our industrial systems and networks, but also the ability to
createtogether a valuable offering for other operators in our ecosystem,”said Luca
Manuelli, Chief Digital Officer of AnsaldoEnergia.
“We have been anAnsaldoEnergia strategic partner for several years and we are very proud
of being chosen again to accompany the company on itscomplexdigital transformation
journey,”said Morten Lehn, General Manager, Italy at Kaspersky.“The energy sector is
certainly a strategic one for Kaspersky and businesses operating in the sector need a
partner that is able to guarantee protection on different sides.We are ready to work with
AnsaldoEnergia to protect the continuity and integrity of the company’s technological
processes and ensure that they can achieve itsdesired objectives of greater efficiency and
competitiveness.”
