Industries / Energy and utilities

Energy and utilities

Keep plants, pipelines and grids running when attacks reach operations.

Oil and gas operators, power producers and utilities run thousands of remote assets over public networks. We hide those links, watch the equipment itself and keep operational AI on site.

Why it matters now

Two incidents changed how operators plan for cyber risk.

Neither started in the control room. Both ended with physical operations stopped.

Fuel pipeline · United States · May 2021

6 days

A ransomware attack on business systems led the operator to halt an 8,851 km pipeline carrying 45% of the US East Coast's fuel, as a precaution.

Source: company statements, May 2021

Power distribution · Ukraine · December 2015

~225,000

Customers lost power after attackers used stolen credentials to disconnect substations remotely. Operators restored service by switching to manual control.

Source: E-ISAC and SANS ICS analysis, 2016

Challenges and how we help

Four problems we see on almost every energy site.

Challenge 01

Remote sites connect over links anyone can find.

Wellheads, pump stations and substations reach the control room over 4G, 5G or satellite. Each gateway and VPN concentrator has a public address that internet scanners index within hours. Contractors add their own remote access on top.

Traffic split across three separate routes between two sites

How we help

VIPN · Virtual & Invisible Private Network

Invisible connectivity · powered by Snowpack technologies

  • Sites and servers keep no public address and no open port
  • Works over the 4G, 5G and satellite links already in place
  • Contractor access without exposing a VPN gateway

Remote assets disappear from the attacker's map.

Challenge 02

An attack on equipment looks like a breakdown.

An attacker inside the control network can change setpoints and feed operators normal-looking values. Maintenance sees wear, security sees nothing, and the root cause is found late, if at all.

A sensor signal with one anomalous stretch flagged

How we help

Asset integrity

Embedded anomaly detection · powered by AIoTrust technology

  • Reads signals at the sensors and actuators, below the control network
  • AI trained on normal operation tells an attack from wear
  • Fits pumps, compressors, turbines, valves and breakers

Maintenance and security act on the same evidence.

Challenge 03

Operational data cannot leave the site or the country.

Predictive maintenance, video safety and production optimization all need AI. National data rules and air-gapped operational networks rule out most public cloud services.

Data, model and compute held inside one boundary

How we help

Sovereign AI

AI on infrastructure you own · designed by Beyond

  • Models and compute on site or in a national data center
  • Runs disconnected or air-gapped when the site requires it
  • Reads from the historian and video systems you already run

AI results, without the data leaving your control.

Challenge 04

IT and OT are secured by different teams.

Every new AI, IoT or remote-access project opens another path between the business network and operations. Nobody owns the whole picture, so the gaps sit between teams.

Nested security zones with a controlled gateway at every boundary

How we help

Security architecture

Assessment, design and integration · designed by Beyond

  • Exposure review across IT, OT and communication links
  • Zones and conduits designed along IEC 62443
  • Controls built into each new project before go-live

One design, one accountable owner.

Where we work on a site

From the sensor to the boardroom, each layer gets the protection it needs.

Layers follow the Purdue model used across industrial operations. System names are examples of what operators typically run.

LayerYour systems, for exampleWhere Beyond works
EnterpriseLevels 4–5
SAP S/4HANA, Microsoft 365, corporate cloud
Security architecture — the IT/OT boundary and its DMZ
Site operationsLevel 3
AVEVA PI System historian, video management, maintenance systems
Sovereign AI — models run here, on site
ControlLevels 1–2
SCADA and DCS such as AVEVA System Platform, Honeywell Experion PKS, Siemens SIMATIC PCS 7; PLCs and RTUs
VIPN — links between remote sites and the control room
FieldLevel 0
Sensors, valves, pumps, compressors, breakers
Asset integrity — signals read at the source
Remote sitesWellheads · pump stations · substations · offshore platforms, connected over 4G, 5G or satellite through VIPN
Core Beyond solution at this layerDesign and hardening

How a first project runs

Start with one site, prove it, then extend.

  1. 01

    Exposure review

    We map remote links, access paths and critical equipment across one asset.

  2. 02

    Pilot on one site

    VIPN on its links, asset integrity on its key equipment, measured against agreed criteria.

  3. 03

    Roll out

    Extend site by site, with national relay nodes when sovereignty requires them.

  4. 04

    Run and support

    Beyond stays accountable after go-live, with each technology partner behind its own product.

Pick one site. We will show you what an attacker sees.

An exposure review is the usual first step. It needs a site, its network diagrams and a few hours with your OT team.

Request an exposure review
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