Shield brings prevention-first network security to critical infrastructure environments. Shield blocks malicious traffic at the network layer using the Global Threat Engine and 8.5 billion IP and DNS combinations refined since 2001.
| What it does | Blocks malicious network traffic at the network layer using reputation-based threat intelligence. |
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| Who it's for | Security teams needing prevention-first network defense. |
| How it deploys | Shield's five products cover cloud, Shield OnPremise, endpoint, monitoring, and management. |
| What you get | Prevention of known-bad connections with full evidence of what was blocked. |
Utilities are the highest-priority targets for nation-state reconnaissance and ransomware operators alike. Shield blocks the inbound recon traffic that precedes targeted attacks and the outbound command-and-control traffic that follows a successful intrusion. Built for cooperatives and municipal utilities operating with small IT teams.
CISA, the FBI, and the NSA have all issued advisories naming utilities as priority targets for nation-state and criminal activity. Most utility IT teams are not staffed to act on those advisories without help.
Before a targeted utility attack, operators map the network. Shield blocks the inbound recon traffic against your perimeter, against 8.5B known-bad sources, before it can fingerprint your infrastructure.
Billing, customer systems, SCADA, distribution control. Utility networks span IT and OT. Shield protects both with the same operational model and a single console.
CISA Shields Up, EPA and CISA Water and Wastewater Cybersecurity guidance, and TSA Pipeline Security Directives all expect monitoring and action. Shield supports the network monitoring those frameworks reference.
Most utility cybersecurity tooling is sized and priced for investor-owned utilities with multi-million-dollar security budgets. Shield is built for the rural electric cooperative, the municipal water authority, and the regional gas distributor.
Shield supports the network monitoring, access control, and audit logging requirements your auditor will ask about. The mapping below is the short version. The full crosswalk lives on the Compliance page.
Shield supports the CISA Shields Up guidance for utilities by blocking known-bad inbound and outbound traffic and producing event logs that evidence active monitoring.
Shield supports the network monitoring and access control practices identified in the joint EPA and CISA Water and Wastewater Cybersecurity guidance, including the Top Cyber Actions for Water Systems.
Shield supports the network monitoring, segmentation enforcement, and incident detection requirements in TSA Pipeline Security Directive SD02 series.
Most utilities discover, within hours of running Shield, that their public-facing infrastructure is being scanned continuously by known-bad sources. Shield blocks the scans before they can fingerprint anything.
Utility IT teams no longer need separate tools for the corporate network and the SCADA segment. Shield Command Hub provides one view of blocked events across both.
Utility security leaders can point to a clean line in their compliance crosswalk: the network monitoring and blocking practices CISA, EPA, and TSA reference are evidenced by Shield event logs.
A short proof of value runs Shield against your perimeter in observe-only mode. We document the inbound and outbound traffic together. You decide whether to turn on protection.
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