Asimily Selected for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Clean Energy Cybersecurity Accelerator
23 May 2024 - 2:29AM
Asimily, an industry-leading risk management platform for IoMT, OT
and IoT devices, today announced it has been selected to
participate in the second cohort of the U.S. Department of Energy’s
(DOE’s) Clean Energy Cybersecurity Accelerator™ (CECA). The
program, managed by DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory
(NREL), evaluates novel solutions that actively identify all assets
connected to a utility’s infrastructure, both physically and
virtually.
Asimily will take part in an acceleration period, through which
its platform will be evaluated in NREL’s Advanced Research on
Integrated Energy Systems (ARIES) Cyber Range—an advanced
simulation environment with real-time situation awareness and
visualization.
“Increasing cybersecurity threats to utilities make it essential
that this critical infrastructure is well protected,” said Shankar
Somasundaram, CEO and Founder, Asimily. “With the information we’ll
learn from deploying Asimily at ARIES, we expect to further
accelerate our platform’s capabilities to identify OT and IoT
assets – including any security vulnerabilities – to protect
against ever more capable adversaries.”
“Asimily has developed technology to identify and enrich data
about OT using network traffic analysis enhanced by correlation
with other sources and methods. At ARIES, uniquely, we can test our
capabilities vs. the true, known inventory, allowing us to prove or
get closer to the ultimate goal – 100% accurate identification of
all OT.”
Working with its partners, CECA identifies urgent security gaps
in the modern electric grid and supports the validation of emerging
technologies that can help address those risks. Selected
participants benefit from access to the National Renewable Energy
Laboratory’s (NREL’s) unique evaluation capabilities, where
solutions will undergo rigorous testing.
Results from Cohort 2 technical assessments will culminate in a
public report documenting the research process and outcomes.
Asimily, alongside the other Cohort 2 participants, will receive
competitive experience and a professional third-party evaluation of
its technology.
"We are thrilled to be working with Cohort 2 participants,” said
Dane Christensen, CECA program lead at NREL. “The selected
technologies offer solutions for solving hidden risks on utility
networks due to incomplete system visibility and device security
and configuration. Through independent third-party assessment, CECA
is helping to accelerate needed technologies to market to help
raise the baseline security of the grid.”
Featured in the White House National Cybersecurity Strategy,
CECA is furthering federal goals to secure our clean energy future
by accelerating the adoption of cybersecurity solutions that
protect renewable energy systems.
CECA is managed by NREL and sponsored by DOE’s Office of
Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response and utility
partners in collaboration with DOE’s Office of Energy
Efficiency and Renewable Energy.
About Asimily
Asimily has built an industry-leading risk management platform
for OT and IoT devices across a wide variety of industries. It
identifies, classifies, and provides vulnerability mitigation, risk
reduction analysis, and threat detection investigation capabilities
for identified devices. The Asimily platform emphasizes efficient
risk reduction for time-strapped security teams. Using novel
methods to measure device risk in context, customers thwart
exploits with simple techniques instead of just adding to their
workload. Asimily is based in Sunnyvale, CA.
For more information, visit https://www.asimily.com or
@asimilysecurity.
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