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Energy
Securing Critical Infrastructure and Ensuring Grid Resilience
Achieve CIP-015 compliance and keep grid operations resilient.
Overview
See Every Threat Across Your Grid Infrastructure
ExtraHop RevealX delivers the network intelligence needed to meet NERC CIP-015 internal network security monitoring (INSM) mandates and maintain energy continuity. By unifying visibility across converged IT and OT environments, RevealX helps teams detect sophisticated threats across grid services and generation assets—stopping attacks before they escalate into outages.
Challenges
From Grid Modernization to National Security
Energy grids are high-consequence environments where digital failures cause physical catastrophe. As the shift to renewables dissolves the traditional perimeter, mandates like NERC CIP-015 now require internal monitoring to catch threats inside the grid before one compromised sensor triggers a blackout.
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Nation-State Sabotage and Kinetic Risk
Geopolitical actors have shifted from data theft to physical destruction, targeting the IT/OT intersection to manipulate processes. Without deep packet inspection, subtle shifts in command logic reach circuit breakers undetected.
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The CIP-015 INSM Imperative
NERC CIP-015 now mandates internal network security monitoring for bulk electric system assets. Utilities must detect anomalous east-west activity inside the electronic security perimeter—or risk compliance penalties and undetected intrusions.
03
The Myth of the Air Gap
In nuclear and high-consequence environments, the air gap is frequently shattered by maintenance laptops, removable media, or supply chain compromises. Validating isolation requires nonintrusive, continuous monitoring across supposedly isolated zones.
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Regulatory Rigor and the INSM Mandate
Mandates like NERC CIP-015 require internal network security monitoring to identify anomalous activity inside the perimeter. Meeting them while maintaining 100% uptime demands a unified approach bridging SOC and NOC workflows.
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The Visibility Gap in OT and ICS Environments
Life-critical PLCs and RTUs can't host security agents without risking crashes. This blind spot leaves DNP3, IEC 61850, and Modbus invisible, letting attackers dwell for months mapping high-voltage environments.
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The Unmanaged Device Ecosystem
Intelligent electronic devices, SCADA sensors, and legacy plant-floor hardware can't support agents. This unmanaged ecosystem creates exploitable blind spots where lateral movement and credential abuse go undetected by traditional tools.
Solutions
ExtraHop RevealX™
SECURITY
Network Detection and Response (NDR)
Use the power of network visibility, cloud-scale machine learning, and advanced analytics for real-time detection, rapid investigation, and quick, confident response to threats.
ExtraHop RevealX Platform
ExtraHop RevealX delivers the network intelligence needed to satisfy NERC CIP-015 internal network security monitoring mandates and maintain energy continuity. By providing a unified view of converged IT and OT environments, RevealX enables teams to detect sophisticated threats across grid services, generation assets, and midstream operations.
Detect Sophisticated Threats
- Satisfy CIP-015 INSM mandates by detecting signature-less east-west threats with behavioral baselining
- Identify lateral movement, credential abuse, and early-stage ransomware targeting grid services and ICS applications
- Catch signature-less threats using cloud-scale machine learning and behavioral baselining across east-west traffic
- Spot unauthorized commands in DNP3 before they reach circuit breakers
- Surface nation-state campaigns targeting bulk electric system assets and transmission control centers
See Every Asset, Including OT
- Automatically discover unmanaged OT devices like PLCs, RTUs, and IEDs without installing agents
- Decode 90+ protocols, including native DNP3 and Modbus, at speeds up to 100 Gbps
- Decrypt modern encrypted traffic, including TLS 1.3 and PFS, without adding latency
- Map IT and OT interdependencies to eliminate single points of failure
Investigate and Comply with Confidence
- Maintain an unalterable forensic record of all network transactions for incident reconstruction
- Satisfy audit requirements for NERC CIP-015, NRC RG 5.71, and NEI 08-09
- Accelerate root-cause analysis with one-click investigations into SCADA and industrial protocol commands
- Validate segmentation, ESP boundaries, and air-gap policies with an independent network observer
PERFORMANCE
Network Performance Monitoring (NPM)
Gain comprehensive insights for smarter troubleshooting and faster resolution of network and application performance issues.
Ensure Continuity for Critical Grid Operation
RevealX NPM uses high-fidelity wire data to troubleshoot disruptions and verify SLAs across substation automation, SCADA services, and EMS. This helps teams maintain the uptime CIP-015 compliance demands while resolving degradation before it impacts grid continuity.
Troubleshoot and Resolve Faster
- Pinpoint latency and throughput issues across substation automation and RTU sessions with high-fidelity telemetry
- Accelerate root-cause analysis with a 3-click workflow from metrics to packets
- Eliminate friction between grid operations (OT) and IT network teams during investigations
- Decode 90+ protocols, including DNP3 and Modbus, for command processing insight
Ensure Operational Resilience
- Sustain uptime during CIP-015 incident response by bridging SOC and NOC workflows
- Resolve infrastructure degradation before it impacts grid continuity and service delivery
- Maintain availability through proactive monitoring of mission-critical SCADA services
- Validate EMS migrations by auto-mapping dependencies against established OT baselines
- Gain deep L2-L7 visibility into high-value apps and Kubernetes environments
Monitor Critical Workloads
- Ensure performance for critical services like AMI gateways and load forecasting APIs
- Combine long-term metadata with scalable PCAP for an unalterable forensic record
- Analyze past grid outages and intermittent telemetry degradations with deep-dive investigations
- Complement APM by filling network gaps with real-time command versus latency insight