Cyber Security for railways
Security operations for railway mission-critical communications networks
Railway cyber security in the digital era
Mainline and metro-urban railway operators recognize that the adoption of digital technologies make their railways more vulnerable to a wide array of increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks. Their concerns are well founded, as numerous railways have been hit by costly and disruptive cyberattacks targeting critical infrastructure and operations. IoT sensors and other devices are especially vulnerable to hackers, who can gain control of them to launch damaging attacks. Securing their digital infrastructure and communications networks against these threats remains a top priority for operators.
The Nokia security solutions offer an advanced and comprehensive approach to cyber security that ensures high levels of protection for railways. They include orchestration and threat incident response solutions to detect, analyze and mitigate security risks. An integrated eXtended detection and response (XDR) suite of security products unifies control points, offers security telemetry, and provides analytics. Our quantum-safe IP and optical networking solutions protect data from intrusion and theft through quantum-safe encryption, key management and intrusion detection.
The end-to-end, multi-layer solutions incorporate security products and services that address the specific challenges of rail operators for both greenfield and brownfield deployments. Some of the key benefits for operators include:
- Securing mission-critical railway communications networks against cyber-attacks
- Improving operational efficiency for security automation
- Streamlining regulatory compliance reporting
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Use cases
The Nokia cyber security solutions support an extensive set of use cases to ensure cybersecurity protections for railway infrastructure and communications networks.
Access control
- Use standardized, unified-access security policies across the network infrastructure
- Deploy logging to ensure compliance with security specifications
- Monitor privileged account access for breaches
Meet regulatory compliance
- Implement forensics capabilities to track who has accessed the network and identify the source of vulnerabilities
- Send standardized compliance reports to security incident response teams
Benefits and features
With Nokia cyber security solutions, railway operators can:
Enhance security automation
for business processes, incident response plans, regulations and policies
Provide end-to-end security
with advanced controls that encompass the operation of the entire network and its processes
Implement multi-layer encryption
to protect traffic across multiple layers in the network
Leverage security analytics
from across the network, devices and cloud layers to spot anomalies and gain insight into threats
Ensure security compliance
by meeting legal, regulatory and compliance requirements through more effective information security and data privacy
Protect against reputation and financial damages
with an automated and predictive defense-in-depth strategy
Cyber Security for railways in action
Solution components
The Nokia solutions include security systems and controls to protect railway communications systems from end to end, including wireless and IP-based networks and IoT devices and sensors.
Quantum-safe optical networking
Protect data from intrusion and theft though quantum-safe encryption, key management and intrusion detection.
NetGuard Cybersecurity Dome
Security orchestration solution with pre-built 5G use cases for network security assurance.
XDR Security
A cloud-native Extended Detection and Response (XDR) platform suite, built as a use-case driven solution for flexibility and ease of integration.
NetGuard Identity Access Manager
A centralized security gateway that allows you to control, monitor and audit privileged access to all mission-critical network and IT systems through a single pane of glass.…
NetGuard Audit Compliance Manager
A cybersecurity orchestration application that automates the audit and analysis of all parameters in physical and virtual networks.
NetGuard Certificate Lifecycle Manager
Automates all processes of public keys and certificates in a centralized, secure and cost-effective way, preventing costly outages and vulnerabilities.
Managed Security Services
A complete portfolio of value-added security services tailored to protect operation technology (OT) and 5G networks as well as IT technology from the evolving cyber threats in…
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