Google Cloud is the first CSP to join affiliates, MFG-ISAC, and BRC in order to improve security.
A significant shift in the way intelligent machines and humans work together characterizes the AI phase of industrial progress. Automation, robotics, AI, and the Internet of Things are eroding the barriers between digital and physical systems in production.
This interconnectedness enables unprecedented productivity, inventiveness, and customized manufacturing. But manufacturers are also exposed to a new breed of cyberthreats that attack supply chains, industrial operations, and increasingly complex production processes. Protecting these vital resources calls for an all-encompassing strategy that encompasses sector-wide cooperation and goes beyond conventional bounds.
The Global Resilience Federation (GRF) has announced a new partnership with the Business Resilience Council (BRC), Manufacturing Information Sharing and Analysis Centre (MFG-ISAC), Operational Technology Information Sharing and Analysis Centre (OT-ISAC), and Energy Analytic Security Exchange (EASE) as part of its efforts to strengthen its commitment to the manufacturing and industry sector. Being the first cloud service provider to collaborate with the GRF Business Resilience Council and its affiliates, Google Cloud is proud of this accomplishment.
Google Cloud will further its dedication to the manufacturing sector through this cooperation by offering vital knowledge and cutting-edge security solutions. It will work with leaders in the sector to strengthen supply chains and manufacturing systems’ resistance to changing cyber threats. Its commitment to assisting the digital transformation and modernization of the manufacturing sector while maintaining the security and integrity of vital infrastructure is demonstrated by this relationship.
In the connected world of today, protecting your company necessitates a thorough plan that goes beyond conventional precautions. By providing a network of resources and expertise covering IT, OT, industrial operations technology, supply chain, logistics, engineering technology, and product security all of which are specifically tailored to navigate the complexities of Industry 4.0 and 5.0 Google Cloud will commit resources and experts to work alongside industry leaders to transform, secure, and defend the manufacturing sector.
It is essential for companies with regional, national, and global presences for experts in cyber and physical security, geopolitical risk, business continuity, disaster recovery, and third-party risk management to work together. Resilience is essential in a time when cyberthreats are becoming more and more severe. Partnerships that GRF cultivates offer the expertise and assistance required to keep an eye on things, handle emergencies, and handle response situations so that your business may continue.
Google Cloud will contribute resources and professionals, such as Mandiant‘s unique insights, its Threat Horizon reports, and the Google Cloud Office of the CISO, to help the manufacturing and industry sector defend against cyberattacks as a GRF partner and member of these four groups. Google will share the expertise it has gained from developing and implementing secure technology with defense and industry leaders.
Google committed to investing at least $10 billion over five years to develop cybersecurity in August 2021, and this cooperation is a continuation of that commitment. It is able to continue supporting the security and resilience of its vital infrastructure across important industries by joining other organizations like Health ISAC, Financial Services ISAC, and Electricity ISAC with this same dedication.
Business Resilience Council
Members of the Business Resilience Council (BRC), a nonprofit, multi-sector, cooperative defense community, exchange actionable intelligence, security, and resilience best practices as well as information curated by analysts to help mitigate risk and adverse effects from terrorism, physical, cyber, geopolitical, and major weather events, among other hazards. Important working groups concentrate on supply chain and third-party risk, AI security, cross-sector exercises, catastrophe recovery, and operational resilience.
The MFG-ISAC
Collaboration among security experts to protect the industrial industry from online threats.
What is MFG-ISAC?
A nonprofit community dedicated to cybersecurity threat awareness and mitigation for small, medium, and enterprise-level manufacturers in the US is called the Manufacturing Information Sharing and Analysis Centre (MFG-ISAC). In addition to providing recommended tools and techniques for prevention, repair, or recovery, the MFG-ISAC team employs both proprietary and open source intelligence to alert member organizations to impending cyberthreats. Members of the community are urged to provide their own observables and indicators, best practices, or guidance on addressing the various issues raised by harmful cyber activities in the industry. Under CyManII’s help and direction, Global Resilience Federation, a multisector ISAC inventor and operator, created MFG-ISAC.
What’s the worth?
Through MFG-ISAC, the manufacturing sector may share its knowledge of threat awareness and management. Additionally, it enables an attack on one entity to provide the others in the group early warning or warning. It is a confidential, safe space where cybersecurity teams can interact for mutual defense. Threat information streams originate from other members, the government, suppliers, and open sources. ISAC analysts compile and enhance these streams for community relevance and actionability. It significantly improves an organization’s detective footprint for a fraction of the cost of a different cybersecurity expert or subscription service.
What advantages come with membership?
- Get alerts about cyberthreats to the sector.
- Get information and protocols from peers in the industry that you can rely on for mutual defence, resilience, and recovery.
- In order to protect the community and preserve reputation, share without giving credit.
- Access vendor, government, and partner community intelligence that has been enhanced for actionability and relevance by ISAC analysts.
- Participate in biweekly analyst calls to talk about industry threats.
- Find best practices and guidance for handling intrusions or attacks.
- In the event of a widespread or systematic attack on the industry, receive alerts from an emergency system.
- Get training materials, a document library, secure chat, and notifications by logging into the MFG-ISAC collaboration platform.
- Get exclusive discounts on community-negotiated vendor offers, training, and technology.
- Get access to a multi-sector cooperative network that provides IOCs and automatic threat intelligence from thousands of organizations worldwide.
EASE stands for Energy Analytic Security Exchange
To help the energy industry protect its networks, facilities, personnel, and reputation, the Energy Analytic Security Exchange (EASE) was created as a threat intelligence sharing community. EASE offers physical and cyber threat intelligence to lower the industry’s exposure to the various hazards it faces.
EASE provides vulnerability reports on hundreds of systems, comprehensive threat reports, automated Indicators of Compromise, and bidirectional warnings between staff analysts and members. The government, private vendors, and a global network of sharing partners from many industries and geographical areas provide the community with actionable intelligence.
As part of the Global Resilience Federation (GRF) network, the EASE community is a component of a constellation of other security sharing groups. To aid in warning and mitigation, these sharing organizations share information on vulnerabilities and threat intelligence.
An additional benefit for EASE members is the monthly Cross Sector Community call, which unites analysts and members from other information-sharing groups. The purpose of the well-attended calls is to draw attention to systemic concerns and their actionable threats and countermeasures.
The OT-ISAC
The mission statement
The OT Cybersecurity Information Sharing and Analysis Centre (OT-ISAC) makes it easier to exchange tactical and strategic security information while offering early warning of new threats, detection methods, and containment strategies.
Vulnerabilities and attacks against OT systems and pertinent IT applications connected to OT systems are among the information shared.
Have Faith
Regularly interacting with the OT-ISAC community through meetings, workshops, and member discussions in order to foster stronger bonds.
Working together
Members can improve their security posture by utilizing the skills, expertise, and experience of their peers to improve their organization’s preparedness, protection, and crisis management.
The community
Through a global network of communities, vendors, partners, and other members, businesses can receive direct access to defensive threat intelligence and mitigation information.
Participants can receive alerts about potential dangers or use defenses against attacks that the community has already identified.
