Energy & Environment : Securing privileged access to protect vital infrastructures and strategic resources

Energy : When cybersecurity becomes a matter of national sovereignty

The energy sector (electricity, gas, water) is on the front line of cyber threats: critical infrastructures and accelerating digitalization make it a prime strategic target.

• Targeted critical infrastructures : Power grids, water treatment plants, and wind farms are major targets for sabotage, large-scale outages, or strategic data theft.
• Expanded attack surface driven by the energy transition : Smart grids, IoT, and predictive maintenance multiply entry points and access to sensitive data.
• Remote access that is difficult to secure : Numerous isolated sites requiring remote maintenance increase the risks associated with poorly controlled connections.
• Strong regulatory constraints : LPM, NIS2, IEC 62443, and ISO 27019 impose strict traceability of access to critical systems, with significant penalties for non-compliance.
• National sovereignty at stake : A cyberattack targeting energy, water, or waste management can impact millions of citizens and compromise the continuity of essential services.

• Isolation of industrial networks (SCADA/OT) : The bastion acts as an intelligent firewall between your offices and your industrial facilities. It prevents a compromise on the administrative network from spreading to your PLCs, valves, or distribution networks, ensuring service continuity for critical infrastructures.
• Strict control over remote maintenance access : Your sites are often geographically dispersed (wind turbines, pumping stations, sorting centers). The bastion centralizes these thousands of remote access points: it replaces unsupervised connections with secure, temporary, and fully traced sessions, regardless of where the operator is located.
• Securing operations and personnel : In the energy sector, a single manipulation error on a PLC can cut power to an entire city or trigger a major industrial incident. The bastion enforces a rigorous working framework: it enables live supervision of interventions and immediate understanding of fault sequences, ensuring that human operators remain an asset, not a vulnerability.
• Sovereignty and compliance with state requirements (OIV/OSE) : To meet LPM or NIS2 obligations, granular traceability is mandatory. The bastion automates the creation of tamper-proof audit evidence required by ANSSI, ensuring your critical infrastructure remains under your total and exclusive control.

• Protecting critical infrastructures and OT environments : PROVE IT secures access to your most sensitive environments by acting as a single, sovereign entry point. By replacing traditional VPNs with controlled remote access (Reverse Proxy), you eliminate unnecessary openings in your network perimeter and shield your PLCs from external threats.
• Neutralizing credential and password risks : Through its integrated vault, PROVE IT manages and injects access secrets on behalf of your operators. The passwords to your critical equipment are never disclosed or exposed, eliminating any vulnerability related to credential sharing or theft.
• Orchestrating third-party maintenance with absolute precision : PROVE IT enables you to grant contractors temporary access, strictly limited to their scope of intervention. By combining strong authentication (MFA) with time-window controls, you maintain total oversight of external operations without ever slowing down operational maintenance.
• Detecting and responding to anomalies in real time : Acting as a true supervision tool, PROVE IT feeds your monitoring solutions with real-time logs. Any unusual action, such as an attempt to modify a production parameter or a connection outside authorized hours,  is immediately flagged, enabling instant response to prevent any major incident.
• Ensuring high-level regulatory compliance : Meet the requirements of NIS2 and IEC 62443. PROVE IT provides a full connection log for your audit reports, turning access traceability into immediate proof of compliance for regulatory authorities.

Real-world challenges faced by our customers

What were the needs ?

• Governing external access : Centralizing and controlling connections from multiple service providers operating on the IS at any hour.
• Replacing a cumbersome manual process : Putting an end to on-demand access management that was time-consuming and difficult to maintain over time.
• Gaining traceability : Being able to review exactly what operations were performed on the IS, both for security purposes and to increase autonomy during troubleshooting.

Concrete results with PROVE IT

"The intentions of individual operators are not always good, it is essential to guard against data theft or malicious attacks. With PROVE IT, we have the assurance of retaining a trace of everything that happens on our IS." - Pierre-Henri Grolleau, IT Director, CETIH Group

• Fast adoption despite initial doubts: Pierre-Henri Grolleau was not initially convinced of the value of a bastion, fearing a solution too complex and too costly for an SME. It was real-world use that overcame his reservations.
• Transparent access for providers, greater control for the IT team: External operators gain greater autonomy, while the group strengthens its traceability across all their interventions.
• Traceability and autonomy in troubleshooting: The ability to replay recorded sessions allows the IT team to quickly identify the root cause of an issue without depending on the service provider.
• A pricing model suited to SMEs: PROVE IT is offered on a subscription basis (annual), with the flexibility to adjust the number of sessions at any time, a decisive financial argument for CETIH RENOV.
• Frictionless deployment: Step-by-step guided installation with comprehensive documentation, straightforward admin interface training, and a stable solution that has never required any support intervention.

What were the needs ?

Strengthening privileged account traceability : Meeting internal cyber audit requirements with a reliable, centralized history of sensitive access.

Choosing an ANSSI-certified solution : A non-negotiable criterion to guarantee the required level of trust.

Opting for the least invasive solution possible : Minimizing impact on users and existing environments.

Gaining real-time visibility : Being immediately alerted when sensitive actions are performed on the IS.

Benefits delivered by PROVE IT

"At a glance, we can now monitor all administration actions performed on our information system through a solution that is completely transparent for users, and very easy to administer on a daily basis. We are entirely satisfied." - Supply & Risk Manager

• Immediate access centralization: All connections from the three types of actors are now visible from a single interface.
• Full transparency for users: The solution integrates seamlessly into existing work practices.
• Simplified day-to-day administration: What was anticipated from the very first demo was confirmed in the live environment.