Critical Infrastructure ยท Utilities & Energy

The IT network is where
the attack path begins.

Attackers targeting utilities and energy organizations operate in the IT layer, corporate networks, engineering workstations, jump hosts, vendor access paths. Personam monitors the behavioral layer where those threats move, without disrupting the infrastructure that keeps the lights on.

The Environment

Why traditional security struggles in critical infrastructure IT.

The combination of high vendor access, legacy systems, shared credentials, and operationally sensitive infrastructure creates blind spots that rules and signatures consistently miss.

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Strict regulatory requirements

NERC CIP, FISMA, and sector-specific frameworks mandate continuous monitoring of IT systems. Demonstrating compliance requires audit evidence that manual log review cannot cost-effectively produce.

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IT/operational boundary access

Corporate IT connects to operational systems through engineering workstations, data historians, and jump hosts. Those boundary paths are high-value targets and are often the least monitored.

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Aging IT infrastructure

Utilities run long-lifecycle IT systems, servers and workstations that cannot support modern EDR agents and carry significant patch debt. Coverage gaps exist wherever agents cannot be deployed.

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Insider threat exposure

Privileged access to critical IT systems is concentrated among a small number of operators and contractors. The insider threat surface is high-impact and historically under-monitored.

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Vendor and contractor access

Equipment vendors and maintenance contractors connect remotely using specialized credentials. Their access is authorized. What they do with it is largely unmonitored once authenticated.

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Audit and evidence requirements

Regulatory frameworks require demonstrating that anomalous behavior is detected, reviewed, and documented. Manual log analysis cannot meet that bar at scale.

Personam was built for these realities.

No agents. No disruption. No rules to maintain. Personam learns the behavioral patterns of every IP-connected asset and detects when anything begins operating outside them.

Why Personam

Behavioral visibility where your environment needs it most.

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Continuous monitoring without agent deployment

Personam supports continuous monitoring requirements at the network metadata layer, no agents required on long-lifecycle infrastructure, no maintenance windows, no changes to operational systems.

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Automated audit evidence

Every detected anomaly logged with full behavioral context, timestamps, entity, deviation type, peer comparison, and investigation record. Compliance documentation as a byproduct of detection.

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Privileged access behavioral monitoring

Every privileged account profiled against its own established behavioral baseline. When a privileged user, contractor, or vendor account operates outside its historical pattern, Personam detects it.

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Built for government insider threat environments

Every privileged account, contractor credential, and vendor connection profiled against its own established behavioral baseline.

Detection Examples

What Personam catches that rules miss.

Privileged Access Abuse

Contractor account pivoting to sensitive IT infrastructure

Maintenance contractor authenticates via VPN, valid credentials, authorized access
Completes assigned work on target system
Begins accessing adjacent IT systems outside the maintenance scope
Accesses network topology documentation and configuration data
Traditional security sees

Authorized contractor, authorized VPN path, valid credential. Activity looks like thorough maintenance work. No alert fires.

Personam detects

Behavioral deviation: contractor accessing systems outside its historical maintenance scope. Network topology queries inconsistent with any prior session. Flagged within minutes.

Insider Threat

Privileged operator staging sensitive configuration data

Privileged IT operator with access to sensitive infrastructure
Begins querying configuration data outside normal operational tasks
Access pattern expands gradually over three weeks
Data staged to personal cloud storage outside established work patterns
Traditional security sees

Authorized operator, authorized systems, legitimate paths. Gradual expansion stays under every threshold. Nothing escalates.

Personam detects

Behavioral deviation: data access scope expanding outside peer group norm. Cloud staging to a service outside this operator's historical behavior.

Compliance

Compliance frameworks Personam supports.

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Critical infrastructure organizations face some of the most demanding continuous monitoring requirements of any sector. Personam's continuous behavioral monitoring supports programs built around NERC CIP, FISMA continuous monitoring, and NIST SP 800-82 expectations, generating automated audit evidence as a byproduct of detection.

Deployment

Visibility from the first packet. Nothing inline, nothing installed.

Step 1

Network tap, IT layer

Mirror port on your corporate/IT network. No inline changes, no required changes to operational systems, no coordination with operational teams required.

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Automatic profiling

Every IT asset, privileged account, and vendor connection profiled from first contact without manual configuration.

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Continuous monitoring + evidence

24/7 behavioral monitoring with automated audit evidence generation. Compliance documentation produced as a byproduct of the detection operation.

See Personam in a critical infrastructure IT environment.

Live demo, 30 minutes. Behavioral detection mapped to your compliance requirements, no slides, no pitch deck.

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