crucial services
What we offer
We are experienced and highly skilled at;
- Assessing an organization's Strategies, Business Model, Capabilities, Services, Cyber Posture, and Risk Appetite,
- Performing interactive SWOT analysis to help organizations develop business and technology strategies for optimization,
- Generating performance reports for IT Service Management, Software development life-cycles and usage, and Cybersecurity,
- Interpretation of regulatory, statutory, and compliance requirements to guide an organization in managing compliance risk,
- BIA and Incident Response planning, testing, and expert event management orchestration if/when a major event occurs.
- Providing organizational change and technology roadmaps that align with evolving business goals and objectives,
- Program, Portfolio, and Project Management for enhancement and attainment of digital capability and well-being.
- Training plans and courses for Cybersecurity and Technology Management training at all levels of the organization,
Cyber Consulting for Critical Infrastructure
Operational Technology
Our Crucial Operational Technology (OT) cyber experts will help you develop a reliable approach to protect the integrity of the systems that provide your critical operational services. If you are in a regulated industry subject to compliance assessments and audits, we can help you assure that your cyber implementation not only exceeds the mandated compliance model but is prepared to address the evolving Critical Infrastructure threat landscape as it morphs going forward.
Segmentation
Our Crucial Operational Technology (OT) cyber experts will help you with developing and designing a defense in depth architecture for effective cyber protections. for systems of different sensitivity or under different management, segmentation allows tailored controls most applicable for the enclave containing each type of system without transferring the risk to other systems. Additionally,critical infrastructure often has very different needs related to exposure to risky areas such as the Internet which provides avenue for remote attacks. if the system dos not need that exposure, it can often be effectively addressed by segmentation.
Digital Twins
Our Crucial Digital Twin consultants will help you plan and develop a digital model of your your OT infrastructure and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems, and enable secure content delivery from the OT environment to the digital twin system for an accurate and useful depiction of your system. We'll help you create a content transfer strategy, optimize your segmentation and cross-domain solutions for safely building relevant modelling, dashboards
Compensating Controls
In Operational Technology systems the system and product life cycles are notably different from those of typical IT systems. The useful life span expectations for OT systems like PLCs and actuators are typically much longer and the support model often anticipates low maintenance and support changes over that lifespan. The rapid pace of innovation and morphing of the threat against these systems means that any vulnerabilities are subject to exploit but may not be remediated by vendor updates and patches like IT systems. this may be mitigated by compensating controls judiciously applied to protect the systems.
Overlays
Tailoring the control sets can be a complex and time consuming task requiring expert knowledge of the control sets and how they apply to the subject systems. Our Crucial Cyber experts can develop this tailoring, and have done so for other related or similar systems. Re-use of the tailored profile as an applicable model becomes an "Overlay" that can be an advantageous starting point for the next similar system. Crucial Cyber creates Overlays, and leverages Industry generated overlays such as the ICS and other Overlays shared by NIST and other entities. This streamlines the Control tailoring and ATO process for many systems.
Common Controls
There are many important and effective controls upon which system owners rely which are implemented by others, such as the General Support System (GSS) administrators. For the control selection and implementation of many of these controls it is appropriate for the GSS systems owners to manage the control functions and to make the control statements for the assessments. This is one of the most effective ways to streamline the accreditation process, by allocating controls to the appropriate owner who implements them.
