Cybersecurity for Energy and Utilities
From Compliance Pressure to Operational Confidence
Utilities don’t struggle with technology gaps, they struggle with proving control. The pressure is relentless: regulators, auditors, and boards all want evidence that security investments actually reduce operational risk. The question isn’t whether you have the tools. It’s whether you can show measurable outcomes when it matters, in an audit, an incident, or in front of the leaders.
350+
Protocols
The broadest coverage across OT, IoT, IoMT, BAS, and CPS
30+
Discovery Methods
Tailored visibility for any industrial environment
Fully Air-Gapped
OnPrem
Hybrid
Cloud
Are You Looking for Features or Measurable Outcomes?
Five of the world’s top ten energy companies rely on Forescout to strengthen governance, ensure uptime, and keep operations running without disruption. With the Forescout 4D Platform™, they turn visibility into measurable outcomes, improving risk mitigation, incident readiness, and compliance across control centers, substations, and field networks.
Know What’s Connected and Why
You can’t explain a breach you couldn’t see coming. Visibility isn’t just about coverage, it’s about context. It’s the ability to understand what’s connected, how it behaves, and why it matters. When regulators, boards, or insurers ask for answers, you can respond with facts, not assumptions.
Risk Decisions You Can Defend
Prioritization based on impact and exploitability shows maturity and control. It proves you’re focusing on the risks that could actually disrupt operations, not chasing vulnerability scores. That’s how you demonstrate governance that’s real, measurable, and defensible.
See How Your Systems Connect
Understanding how systems communicate and being able to catch anomalies when they don’t, keeps you ahead of incidents and audits. It proves your detection strategy reflects how operations actually run, not how network diagrams look on paper.
Incident Response That Holds the Line
When something happens, you don’t want to ask “what now?” You want a practiced, defensible response. Automation, playbooks, and forensic data help your team act fast, contain the impact, and prove they follow a plan, not improvised under pressure.
Access Controls You Can Trust and Prove
Remote access remains the number one entry point for attackers in utilities. Showing that every internal or external session is verified, logged, and auditable isn’t just a technical safeguard. It’s proof of operational discipline, accountability, and control.
Resilience That Keeps Operations Moving
Process resilience isn’t about checking boxes on a list. It’s about business continuity. When you can clearly show how detection, response, and recovery align, you prove that security protects uptime instead of slowing it down.
Purpose-Built Industrial Cybersecurity for Utilities
As part of the Forescout 4D Platform™, eyeInspect delivers real-time asset intelligence, risk management, and threat detection purpose-built for power and utility environments. It automatically discovers and classifies every device, tracking communications and behaviors across control centers, substations, and field networks through passive monitoring of key utility protocols, such as DNP3, IEC 60870-5-101/104, and IEC 61850 GOOSE/MMS. The result: deep visibility into control and telemetry traffic across generation, transmission, and distribution. eyeInspect gives utilities the confidence to detect threats, maintain compliance, and keep operations running safely.
Sample Network Architecture in a Power & Utilities Environment
This diagram shows a typical architecture of the Forescout solution for SCADA and substation deployments.
Various sensor options are available, ranging from high-performance appliances for centralized deployments to substation-certified and lighter, low-cost models, as well as deployment on existing network infrastructure equipment for use in decentralized or segmented networks with limited throughput.
Integrate with your security ecosystem to exchange insights, automate workflows and initiate response to emerging cyber threats.
Flexible. Versatile. Rapid Deployment.
Forescout offers unmatched deployment flexibility to meet the diverse hardware and cloud requirements of modern environments. We ensure compatibility with existing infrastructures while minimizing operational disruption. This versatility makes it an ideal choice for your organization. If you seek robust, scalable solutions tailored to your unique operational and regulatory landscapes, look no further.
The Forescout 4D Platform™ adapts seamlessly with options for on-premises installations, virtual machines and Docker-based containerized deployments, including:
- Air-gapped systems for high-security needs
- Forescout appliances that deliver maximum visibility and control
- Hybrid configurations to connect distributed sites
- Fully cloud-based operations for scalability
…and Sensors that can be deployed as:
- Standalone appliances
- Installed directly on routers and switches for quick implementation without production disruption
- Or configured as active sensors to query network infrastructure
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Leverage the Dell Validated Design for Energy Edge to deploy in substations with ABB and Forescout