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Insider Threat Prevention for Energy and Utility Companies

Ensure operational resilience, prevent espionage, and meet cybersecurity
requirements with a full-cycle insider risk management platform.

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The challenge

With complex supply chains and heavy reliance on information and operational technology, energy and utility companies face many challenges when trying to minimize security risks:

Preventing misuse and abuse of user privileges

Complying with relevant cybersecurity requirements

Protecting sensitive data and systems from cyberattacks and insider threats

Ensuring the security of the IoT ecosystem and supply chain

Responding swiftly to cybersecurity threats

Mitigating vulnerabilities in legacy systems

The importance of cybersecurity for energy and utility companies

The energy and utilities industry is an attractive target for both external and internal attacks. According to the Cost of a Data Breach Report 2023 by IBM Security, the energy industry ranks fourth-highest in average data breach costs at $4.78 million.

Without proper energy and utilities cybersecurity solutions, organizations throughout the industry may face severe consequences, such as:

Operational disruptions

Financial losses

Reputational damage

Non-compliance liabilities

Syteca helps energy and utility companies to

Manage privileged and third-party access 

Grant access to critical endpoints only for employees and third parties who need it to do their jobs.

Improve visibility across digital infrastructures

Continuously monitor and record how users handle critical data and systems within your IT environment.

Prevent sensitive data
theft

Implement in-depth insider risk management to protect your intellectual property from espionage and minimize the risk of operational sabotage.

Comply with cybersecurity regulations

Streamline compliance with industry-specific cybersecurity requirements, including those stipulated by NERC and FERC.

Common vectors of insider threats in
the energy and utilities sector

Nation-states engaging in espionage

Disgruntled employees damaging IT infrastructure, data, or equipment as retaliation

Malicious insiders committing fraud or data theft for financial gain

Negligent employees causing security breaches

Adversaries harming organizations by compromising their vendors’ security systems

Cybercriminals exploiting employees’ lack of cyber awareness

Protect your critical operations from insider threats

Syteca’s comprehensive cybersecurity capabilities can help energy companies protect their most valuable assets and combat insider threats.

Privileged accounts and user credentials

Critical systems and workstations

Intellectual property and mission-critical data

Cloud infrastructure

Personal information and financial data

Account compromise

Human errors

Malicious insider activity

Espionage

Privilege abuse

The ultimate cybersecurity solution for energy companies

Oil, gas, and coal extraction companies

Power production companies

Energy retailers

Equipment and service providers

See how users interact with sensitive data and critical systems within your IT environment.

Restrict employee and vendor access to critical assets to minimize security risks.

Detect suspicious insider activity and respond to it in real time.

Fulfill relevant compliance requirements and enhance your overall cybersecurity.

Industry recognition

Included in 2021 Kuppingercole Leadership Compass for PAM

Included in the Gartner 2025 Market Guide for Insider Risk Magement Solutions

Value Added Partner

Mentioned in NIST Special Publication

Expert advice on building an impactful insider threat program

A Modern CISO’s Guide to Running a Successful Insider Threat Program

Get in-depth instructions on how to build a strong and actionable insider risk management program. Find ready-to-use worksheets and learn how to measure your program’s effectiveness.

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How Syteca enhances cybersecurity for energy and utilities

Gain visibility into your IT infrastructure through continuous monitoring of employee and vendor activity, enhanced with screen-capture recordings and indexed metadata.

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Validate users’ identities before giving them access to your endpoints, securely manage passwords, and distinguish between users of shared accounts.

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Secure privileged access by limiting user permissions to only those necessary for employees to do their jobs. Leverage manual access approval workflow to protect your most valuable endpoints.

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Mitigate security risks and ensure data and infrastructure integrity by providing third-party vendors with temporary access to your IT environment and monitoring the activity of all remotely connected users.

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Promptly respond to suspicious user activity by activating predefined or custom alerts. Implement rules to automatically block malicious actions.

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Evaluate your current insider risk landscape through a variety of reports and seamless integration with Microsoft Power BI. Export tamper-proof evidence of malicious user activity for forensic audits and investigations.

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Protect sensitive user data from disclosure with pseudonymization of personal information in the monitoring results. For investigation purposes, you can easily de-anonymize the needed data.

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Get more with enterprise-grade insider threat detection software

Context-rich recordings significantly reduce CERT and SOC response times. One-click search across suspicious activity makes investigations faster and more effective.

Cybercriminals are constantly improving their ways of compromising privileged accounts. Powered by artificial intelligence, the Syteca UEBA module can detect a hacker who has penetrated a corporate system using stolen credentials.

The lightweight agent works silently and isn’t noticeable to users or other programs. Collected data is saved in searchable and highly optimized video, audio, and text file formats for compact log storage and easy reporting.

Syteca is quick to install and easily integrates with SIEM and ticketing systems. You’ll get a ready-to-use solution right after a coffee break.

Why companies choose Syteca

Syteca continuously monitors various endpoints, including both end-user machines and servers, within any network architecture. Being one of the best user activity monitoring tools for Windows, Syteca also works for macOS and is a powerful Linux/UNIX session audit tool. It even supports X Window System and all popular virtualization solutions. Syteca allows agent-based and jump server-based deployments as well as any combination thereof.

Designed for tracking user activity on tens of thousands of endpoints, Syteca demonstrates exceptional stability and performance. As for maintenance and reliability, the platform provides high availability and multi-tenant deployment, system resource and health monitoring dashboards, and automated maintenance tasks.

Besides tracking user activity, Syteca provides enhanced incident alerting and response functionality. But that’s not all. Using Syteca Client, you can set up access and identity management. Since Syteca also provides server user activity monitoring, you always know what is happening in your network.

The unique licensing offered by Syteca enables cost-effective deployments of any size, from small pilots to enterprise projects. Floating endpoint licensing enables license reassignment in a couple of clicks. For virtual environments, this process is automated.

Meet IT security requirements with Syteca’s cybersecurity solutions for insurance companies

ISO 27001

Global information security management standard

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PCI DSS

Worldwide financial security standard

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SWIFT CSP

Cybersecurity for financial institutions

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SOX

Cybersecurity for financial institutions

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FISMA

U.S. law safeguarding government data

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GDPR

EU data privacy regulation

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NIST 800-53

U.S. government cybersecurity framework

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NIST 800-171

Cybersecurity standard for U.S. contractors

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NERC

Standards for North American power systems

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GLBA

U.S. law on financial data protection

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NISPOM Change 2 and H.R. 666

Protecting classified information in the U.S.

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SOC 2

Audit standard for data security

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HIPAA

U.S. law protecting medical data privacy

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DORA

Enhancing software development practices

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NIS2

EU law for critical infrastructure cybersecurity

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FAQ

Cyberattacks and data breaches may lead to financial losses, reputational losses, non-compliance fees, and operational disruptions. These negative consequences may disrupt the transfer of power or fuel supplies to the population, jeopardizing the public’s welfare.

The energy sector mainly faces the following cybersecurity threats:

  • Ransomware attacks
  • Nation-state espionage
  • Social engineering
  • Insider threats
  • Advanced persistent threat attacks.

Syteca is a full-cycle insider risk management platform that helps enhance cybersecurity for energy and utilities and protect their critical data and assets from human-induced cyber threats.

Since energy firms must maintain their operations, cyberattackers assume that these companies are more likely to pay ransoms. Moreover, state-sponsored cyber threat actors may use cyberattacks within the energy and utilities sector as a means to escalate political tensions and exert strategic influence.

Because of its critical infrastructure status, the energy and utilities sector faces unique cybersecurity challenges. Energy and utility companies must ensure the security of their complex supply chains, address security vulnerabilities in legacy systems, and enhance operational resilience.

Tailored cybersecurity software for energy companies is required to address these challenges. Syteca is a comprehensive insider risk management solution that helps energy and utility companies minimize security risks. 

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