Planning and Design Perspectives to Enhance Operational Efficiencies

INNOVATING IN RAIL CYBER SECURITY

The rail industry is undergoing further regulation of its Operational Technology security, and its leadership is gaining insights into related risks. The rail industry is at a pivotal point in its security journey. There is a unique opportunity to achieve material operational efficiencies in its Operational Technology programs through leveraging “design in” and “design out” methods. Long-term, by viewing rail security through these two planning lenses, (“design in” and “design out”) rail companies can balance security requirements and costs, better identify areas of inefficiencies, and improve the likelihood security will be both successfully deployed and regularly operationally maintained.

In this white paper, we discuss: 

• Rail Industry OT Security Relative to Other Industries
• Accepting Rail Technology Realities
• How Technology Debt Accumulates Across Rail Lifecycles
• Rail System Security Challenge Multiplier
• Introducing Rail Security and Efficiency Gains
• Cost Factors in Protecting Rail
• Best Practices: Design-In Considerations
• Best Practices: “Design out” Approaches
• Worst Practices: Consequences of “Bolted On” Security