Radiflow’s CIARA 4.0 Delivers Actionable Insights to Simplify the Management of OT Cyber Risk at Industrial Facilities

Radiflow, the pioneering company behind OT cybersecurity platform, CIARA, has officially unveiled CIARA 4.0. The latest version comes equipped with an industry-leading benchmark tool and offers pragmatic insights for risk management in large multi-site industrial facilities. Currently, CISOs and their security teams are tasked with overseeing OT facilities' cybersecurity. However, they often struggle with assessing the evolving cybersecurity threats to their operations. Unlike other sectors, they cannot readily evaluate their risk exposure or the efficacy of specific security measures. In response to this, Radiflow has rolled out CIARA 4.0 - an analytics-based platform that constantly tracks alterations in site topology, vulnerabilities, and threats, consistently reassessing the risk position of facilities and their digital elements. This ongoing monitoring allows the CISO to scrutinize strategic and tactical OT security plans and modify them as necessary. To further support CISOs in assessing their risk position, Radiflow is launching a new, complimentary cloud-based benchmark tool. This innovative tool utilizes industry-specific benchmark data gathered through Radiflow's extensive experience and supplemented with CS2AI survey findings, offering users a swift risk posture assessment compared to industry norms and best practices. “CISOs are under enormous pressure to do more with less, making it challenging to understand their current standing across the OT Cybersecurity landscape,” said Ilan Barda, Radiflow CEO, and Co-founder. “Data-driven CIARA 4.0 automates the delivery of the necessary insights concerning the changes in the risk posture that actually direct users toward optimal security actions.” As cybercriminals become increasingly sophisticated and the variety of vulnerabilities expands, national and industrial regulatory authorities are tightening cybersecurity regulations. However, these can often be complex and challenging to navigate. For instance, the widely endorsed IEC62443 international series of standards offers a comprehensive map of security controls but can be too intricate for companies to understand and implement. To address these issues, CIARA 4.0 offers a view of Security Controls Best Practices, which are easier to comprehend and align better with the planning of security projects within a single factory or across a large, geographically diverse set of interconnected facilities. “A centralized, highly intelligent solution that enables OT cybersecurity teams to identify vulnerabilities, and stay up to date with industry standards and/or best practices, while prioritizing and evaluating mitigation efforts, slashes the investment in time and effort required to conduct secure operations,” explained Michael Langer, Radiflow’s Chief Product Officer. “With the accelerating pace of so many new devices being interconnected via expanding OT networks alongside decades of legacy versions, CIARA 4.0’s ability to automate accurate risk analyses and furnish actionable insights becomes vital for ensuring zero downtime.”