Non-public 4G/5G safety startup OneLayer has adopted tie-ups with key community distributors Nokia and Ericsson with a multi-year cope with US investor-owned power supplier Evergy to handle and safe OT property on its personal mobile community. Evergy, primarily based in Kentucky within the US, has chosen its OneLayer Bridge personal community gadget administration and zero-trust safety platform to handle OT and IoT gadgets on its new personal LTE (4G) community.
Earlier this month, OneLayer mentioned it had put in Finnish community vendor Nokia’s key Digital Automation Cloud (DAC) system at its personal community safety lab. Curiously, there isn’t any (simply out there) reference within the agency’s press supplies, or in protection on the web, the place the lab is, precisely – whether or not it’s bodily positioned at its headquarters in Tel Aviv, in Israel, or in Boston within the US – which options in datelines in its press supplies.
It could even be a digital check lab, out there to prospects for testing on-demand; protection says it “acts as a digital twin to simulate particular risk situations”. The power opened for safety testing and analysis functions in 2022, apparently; third-party protection on-line lists Nokia, alongside Druid Software program and Airspan Networks, as collaborators since at the least March this yr. The brand new press be aware about Nokia could seek advice from a better collaboration.
OneLayer, working within the buzzy cybersecurity realm within the personal 5G sector, and listed twice currently in Gartner’s ‘hype-cycle’ reviews (for automation within the comms trade and repair supplier operations), is working with Ericsson, too, which is gearing up for a serious cybersecurity play within the personal 5G market by the second half of 2024. Ericsson tapped OneLayer in February to safe a non-public LTE community at its ‘utilities innovation centre’ in Texas.
Ericsson can also be the writer of Evergy’s personal LTE setup. Evergy has accomplished its personal LTE testing, and is readying a “complete rollout for operational use” No matter; the purpose of this reportage and hypothesis is that the agency is gathering offers and relationships. Evergy is deploying the OneLayer Bridge product to safe IoT and OT gadgets in its workplace amenities and electrical energy grid within the US.
It expects to have “tens of hundreds” of sensor gadgets within the “subsequent few years”, and is “projected” to make “substantial financial savings” in asset administration, operations administration, and community administration, mentioned OneLayer. An announcement mentioned: “OneLayer gives end-to-end zero-trust safety that seamlessly extends Evergy’s current safety frameworks, established segmentation requirements and regulatory necessities to the personal LTE area.”
It continued: “OneLayer Bridge’s OT/IoT asset discovery and monitoring, geofencing, anomaly detection and mitigation functionalities considerably cut back Evergy’s assault floor and allow swift remediation of any potential issues… OneLayer’s asset administration capabilities improve operational effectivity by automating gadget onboarding, provisioning, profiling, classifying and activation.
“OneLayer permits delegating onboarding steps to totally different groups, enabling Evergy to scale its community successfully by creating autonomy for various groups… Visibility and monitoring of each gadget linked to the community – even non-cellular gadgets linked by way of mobile routers – allow Evergy to evaluate efficiency and uptime, conduct vendor comparisons at scale, and modify quality-of-service dynamically for various gadgets or conditions.”
J.J. Stutler, supervisor for wi-fi engineering and operations at Evergy, mentioned: “We wanted a strategy to handle the rising variety of OT gadgets utilizing our personal LTE community. We required automation and delegation of assorted gadget onboarding steps to totally different groups, alongside full visibility to all gadgets… OneLayer did all of that, along with offering operations and safety frameworks for our personal LTE networks and linked gadgets.”
Dave Mor, chief government at OneLayer, singled out the agency’s relationship with OneLayer. He mentioned: “Our upkeep of sturdy relationships with personal LTE distributors, like Ericsson and CPE distributors ensures steady help for upgraded merchandise and enhanced capabilities. This method permits Evergy to learn not solely from current efficiencies but in addition to remain ready for evolving challenges and alternatives within the personal LTE panorama.”
