Non-public 4G/5G safety startup OneLayer has adopted tie-ups with key community distributors Nokia and Ericsson with a multi-year take care of US investor-owned power supplier Evergy to handle and safe OT property on its personal mobile community. Evergy, primarily based in Kentucky within the US, has chosen its OneLayer Bridge personal community machine administration and zero-trust safety platform to handle OT and IoT gadgets on its new personal LTE (4G) community.
Earlier this month, OneLayer stated it had put in Finnish community vendor Nokia’s key Digital Automation Cloud (DAC) system at its personal community safety lab. Curiously, there is no such thing as a (simply out there) 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 could even be a digital check lab, out there to prospects for testing on-demand; protection says it “acts as a digital twin to simulate particular menace eventualities”. 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 not less than March this 12 months. The brand new press be aware about Nokia might confer with a better collaboration.
OneLayer, working within the buzzy cybersecurity realm within the personal 5G sector, and listed twice currently in Gartner’s ‘hype-cycle’ reviews (for automation within the comms business and repair supplier operations), is working with Ericsson, too, which is gearing up for a significant cybersecurity play within the personal 5G market via the second half of 2024. Ericsson tapped OneLayer in February to safe a personal LTE community at its ‘utilities innovation centre’ in Texas.
Ericsson can also be the creator of Evergy’s personal LTE setup. Evergy has accomplished its personal 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 services 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, stated OneLayer. A press release stated: “OneLayer supplies end-to-end zero-trust safety that seamlessly extends Evergy’s present safety frameworks, established segmentation requirements and regulatory necessities to the personal LTE area.”
It continued: “OneLayer Bridge’s OT/IoT asset discovery and monitoring, geofencing, anomaly detection and mitigation functionalities considerably scale back Evergy’s assault floor and allow swift remediation of any potential issues… OneLayer’s asset administration capabilities improve operational effectivity by automating machine onboarding, provisioning, profiling, classifying and activation.
“OneLayer allows delegating onboarding steps to totally different groups, enabling Evergy to scale its community successfully by creating autonomy for various groups… Visibility and monitoring of each machine related to the community – even non-cellular gadgets related by way of mobile routers – allow Evergy to evaluate efficiency and uptime, conduct vendor comparisons at scale, and regulate quality-of-service dynamically for various gadgets or conditions.”
J.J. Stutler, supervisor for wi-fi engineering and operations at Evergy, stated: “We wanted a approach to handle the rising variety of OT gadgets utilizing our personal LTE community. We required automation and delegation of varied machine onboarding steps to totally different groups, alongside full visibility to all gadgets… OneLayer did all of that, along with offering operations and safety frameworks for our personal LTE networks and related gadgets.”
Dave Mor, chief govt at OneLayer, singled out the agency’s relationship with OneLayer. He stated: “Our upkeep of sturdy relationships with personal LTE distributors, like Ericsson and CPE distributors ensures steady help for upgraded merchandise and enhanced capabilities. This strategy permits Evergy to profit not solely from present efficiencies but additionally to remain ready for evolving challenges and alternatives within the personal LTE panorama.”
