Industry & Food Processing : protecting production and innovation through privileged access control

The challenges : Securing the production line (OT), the food supply chain and intellectual property

The industrial sector is on the front line against industrialised cyberattacks targeting industrial control systems (SCADA, ICS), with highly disruptive consequences and critical stakes :

• Industrialised cyberattacks : Ransomware, espionage and sabotage are increasingly targeting IT/OT industrial environments.
• Costly production downtime / 24/7 availability : An attack on a SCADA system can shut down a plant for several days, causing immediate loss of perishable raw materials and significant financial losses.
• Food safety risks : Tampering with temperature or composition data can compromise product quality and safety.
• Intellectual property theft : Recipes, processes, blueprints and patents are prime targets for industrial espionage.
• Proliferation of remote access : M2M maintenance operations carried out by external providers increase the risks associated with remote access.
• Expanded attack surface : The convergence of IT/OT, industrial IoT, cloud and automation make production lines increasingly exposed.
• Tightening regulatory requirements : NIS2 and IEC 62443 standards impose strict cybersecurity and incident management measures.

Implementing a bastion solution addresses several key challenges:

• Compliance support : Audit and alignment with NIS2, IEC 62443 and other regulations, with training for technical and operational teams.
• Zero Trust approach and network segmentation : Facilitated isolation of OT and IT networks with granular access control and alerting to limit attack propagation.
• Operational resilience : Business continuity plans (BCP) tailored to industrial challenges.
• Controlled and secure third-party access.

• Sanctuarise your critical assets through granular access : PROVE IT facilitates airtight segmentation between your administrative management and your production environment. By isolating access to your PLCs, SCADA servers and R&D systems, the solution ensures that no incident on the office network can paralyse your production lines or compromise the integrity of your recipes.
• Eliminate the vulnerability of shared passwords : Thanks to its integrated password vault, PROVE IT automatically injects credentials without ever disclosing them to operators. This removes the risk of password theft or loss, while protecting legacy systems that do not natively support modern authentication methods.
• Orchestrate third-party maintenance in real time : PROVE IT gives you back control over your providers. You define dynamic access rights and strict time windows: the session opens at the start of the intervention and is automatically terminated at the end. Full video recording allows every action to be audited for complete transparency.
• Strengthen resilience against cyber extortion : By enforcing strong authentication (MFA) for every access, including local access, PROVE IT becomes your last line of defence against ransomware. This protects the availability of your production chain and prevents costly line stoppages caused by unauthorised intrusions.
• Certify your compliance with regulatory requirements : PROVE IT facilitates alignment with IEC 62443 and food safety security audits. The detailed, tamper-proof logging of every action ("who modified which parameter, and when?") transforms your cybersecurity posture into irrefutable proof of industrial control.

Real-world challenges faced by our customers

What were their needs?

• Control over external interventions : Track partner actions, record sessions and restrict their access to only the resources they need.
• Credential protection : Use of a secondary credential vault to store robust passwords that users no longer need to know.
• Generalise MFA : Apply multi-factor authentication across all resources using Active Directory accounts.
• Real-time monitoring : Event notifications per user and per resource to visualise live sessions and investigate quickly in the event of an issue.

Concrete results following PROVE IT deployment:

"The bastion is an essential building block for us. PROVE IT stood out on its own : simple to deploy, simple to administer, and effective! We have real-time visibility over our IS activity and can view sessions, that's the key to control and rapid response." - Claude Charpentier (CIO) and Florian Girardin (CISO), Mix Buffet Group

• Simplified offboarding : With PROVE IT, deleting an account in Active Directory when a provider changes or an employee leaves is sufficient to revoke all access.
• Complete visibility : Mix Buffet benefits from full traceability of all actions performed on the IS through logs and video recordings.
• Efficiency and intuitiveness : Claude and Florian confirm: PROVE IT was simple to deploy and administer, and as an added bonus, the solution was quickly adopted by both internal and external users.
• Relevant licensing model : PROVE IT's concurrent session-based licensing was perfectly aligned with the group's growth trajectory.

What were the challenges?

• Centralise and trace access : Replace direct, unsupervised access with mandatory routing through the bastion for all administration operations.
• Leverage session video recordings : Use video recording to quickly resolve doubts when anomalies are detected.
• Simplify administration : Deploy a solution with fast technical implementation and an intuitive interface

Guaranteed benefits with PROVE IT:

"The traceability aspect — particularly the video — is a major feature of PROVE IT for us. It allows us to increase our incident response speed: we can see very quickly what was done. It's a simple, effective solution, and Rubycat's support is of excellent quality." — Hervé Lautard, Infrastructure & Operations Director, Limagrain

• Increased responsiveness : The ability to replay video sessions saves valuable time during investigation phases to identify the source of a problem.
• Compliance and audit : The solution provides the necessary evidence during security audits, proving that every access is controlled and documented.
• Ease of deployment : PROVE IT was up and running within a matter of hours.
• Sovereignty : The choice of a French solution certified by ANSSI, guaranteeing a high level of trust.