Personal 4G/5G safety startup OneLayer has adopted tie-ups with key community distributors Nokia and Ericsson with a multi-year cope with US investor-owned vitality supplier Evergy to handle and safe OT belongings on its non-public mobile community. Evergy, based mostly in Kentucky within the US, has chosen its OneLayer Bridge non-public community system administration and zero-trust safety platform to handle OT and IoT gadgets on its new non-public LTE (4G) community.
Earlier this month, OneLayer mentioned it had put in Finnish community vendor Nokia’s key Digital Automation Cloud (DAC) system at its non-public community safety lab. Curiously, there isn’t a (simply accessible) reference within the agency’s press supplies, or in protection on the web, the place the lab is, precisely – whether or not it’s bodily situated at its headquarters in Tel Aviv, in Israel, or in Boston within the US – which options in datelines in its press supplies.
It might even be a digital check lab, accessible to clients for testing on-demand; protection says it “acts as a digital twin to simulate particular risk situations”. The ability opened for safety testing and analysis functions in 2022, apparently; third-party protection on-line lists Nokia, alongside Druid Software program and Airspan Networks, as collaborators since a minimum of March this 12 months. The brand new press word about Nokia might consult with a better collaboration.
OneLayer, working within the buzzy cybersecurity realm within the non-public 5G sector, and listed twice these days in Gartner’s ‘hype-cycle’ studies (for automation within the comms business and repair supplier operations), is working with Ericsson, too, which is gearing up for a serious cybersecurity play within the non-public 5G market by the second half of 2024. Ericsson tapped OneLayer in February to safe a non-public LTE community at its ‘utilities innovation centre’ in Texas.
Ericsson can also be the writer of Evergy’s non-public LTE setup. Evergy has accomplished its non-public LTE testing, and is readying a “complete rollout for operational use” No matter; the purpose of this reportage and hypothesis is that the agency is gathering offers and relationships. Evergy is deploying the OneLayer Bridge product to safe IoT and OT gadgets in its workplace amenities and electrical energy grid within the US.
It expects to have “tens of 1000’s” of sensor gadgets within the “subsequent few years”, and is “projected” to make “substantial financial savings” in asset administration, operations administration, and community administration, mentioned OneLayer. A press release mentioned: “OneLayer supplies end-to-end zero-trust safety that seamlessly extends Evergy’s present safety frameworks, established segmentation requirements and regulatory necessities to the non-public LTE area.”
It continued: “OneLayer Bridge’s OT/IoT asset discovery and monitoring, geofencing, anomaly detection and mitigation functionalities considerably cut back Evergy’s assault floor and allow swift remediation of any potential issues… OneLayer’s asset administration capabilities improve operational effectivity by automating system onboarding, provisioning, profiling, classifying and activation.
“OneLayer permits delegating onboarding steps to completely different groups, enabling Evergy to scale its community successfully by creating autonomy for various groups… Visibility and monitoring of each system linked to the community – even non-cellular gadgets linked by way of mobile routers – allow Evergy to evaluate efficiency and uptime, conduct vendor comparisons at scale, and alter quality-of-service dynamically for various gadgets or conditions.”
J.J. Stutler, supervisor for wi-fi engineering and operations at Evergy, mentioned: “We would have liked a approach to handle the rising variety of OT gadgets utilizing our non-public LTE community. We required automation and delegation of varied system onboarding steps to completely different groups, alongside full visibility to all gadgets… OneLayer did all of that, along with offering operations and safety frameworks for our non-public LTE networks and linked gadgets.”
Dave Mor, chief govt at OneLayer, singled out the agency’s relationship with OneLayer. He mentioned: “Our upkeep of robust relationships with non-public LTE distributors, like Ericsson and CPE distributors ensures steady help for upgraded merchandise and enhanced capabilities. This method permits Evergy to profit not solely from present efficiencies but in addition to remain ready for evolving challenges and alternatives within the non-public LTE panorama.”