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Protecting Operational Technology (OT) against remote cyberattacks

Essentially, OT is the hardware and software that keeps factories, power plants, facility equipment etc. running. With the advent of low cost – high bandwidth- low latency connectivity, OT systems are getting increasingly connected and accessible from public network or the internet.

Many of those OT systems were not originally conceived to be accessible from the outside and are exposing large surface of attacks. They are an easy target for cybercriminal organizations willing to exploit vulnerabilities to launch cyberattacks and create serious economic damage.

In effect, there are attractive business models for hackers for exploiting OT vulnerabilities, in particular when attacks can be performed remotely on OT equipment that are connected.

How we can help

At ProvenRun we help answering to those threats by providing:

Security-by-design for OT equipment

When securing-by-design a connected device, security engineers can in effect rely on three pillars to be integrated as part of the device’s Trusted Computing Base (TCB):

  • Secure elements or hardware coprocessors for the Root of Trust, cryptographic operations and transactions,
  • Secure Operating Systems (OSs) or Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs),
  • Hardware- or software-based hypervisors.

A secure OS for security critical services

The TCB always includes critical security functions that need to remain small and simple to remain verifiable, especially on complex hardware such as modern microprocessors or microcontrollers. Implementing these security functions require high-level abstractions of the hardware, typically provided by an Operating System (OS). Because the correctness of the security functions depends on the correctness of these high-level abstractions, the OS that implements them is also part of the TCB and should be free from exploitable vulnerabilities.

Our TCB secure software components

At ProvenRun, we provide unique critical off-the-shelf TCB software components that can be used to secure-by-design OT equipment in Greenfield situations:

  • ProvenCore: an ultra-secure OS, that can be used also as a TEE, available for ARM Cortex-A, Cortex-M and RISC-V processors.
  • ProvenCore-M: a ultra-secure RTOS available for ARM Cortex-M and RISC-V processors.
  • ProvenVisor: A secure hypervi

In brownfield situations, ProvenRun recommends the use of our ProvenBox solution.

Contact us for more details on how we can help.

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Off-the-shelf products
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ProvenCore

ProvenCore

ProvenCore is an ultra secure OS developed using deductive formal methods. It is a key milestone for being able to develop secure-by-design connected devices in many sectors (automotive, railways, aeronautics, energy, industrial, medical, etc.) in a cost-effective way

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ProvenCore-M

ProvenCore-M

ProvenCore-M is a secure Real Time Operating System (RTOS) that is dedicated to help security architects to design a highly secured TCB for hardware constrained microcontroller platforms. It brings an innovative answer to help companies developing smart products with high security assurance level at industrial cost.

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ProvenVisor

ProvenVisor

ProvenVisor is a secure and certifiable hypervisor that security architects can use as an off-the-shelf certifiable component for their connected device’s Trusted Computing Base.

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ProvenBox

ProvenBox

ProvenBox is a tamper-resistant, generic security appliance, ready to host security applications that require trust, performance and ease of use. 

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