DYNACON
Enabling the Creation of Safe and Efficient OT Environments

Operational technology (OT) networks are an important part of the industrial environment, where hardware and software are highly sensitive to data transmission instability and generate small measurement or command information data packets that must arrive on time. Ensuring OT cybersecurity fundamentally differs from IT environments and conventional networks in the way it is impossible to receive and send this data again without significant consequences, and each interruption in communication generates serious losses.

Enter DYNACON, an engineering and development company specializing in OT-driven industrial cybersecurity, communication network automation, and OT and IT integrations. Its ARIC Network Defence System as an ecosystem (SIEM, SOAR, IDS, IPS, Active Devices, etc.), complex protocols, data management, incident management, and industrial communication in OT networks across the energy, healthcare, water, food, pharmaceutical, transport, Oil & Gas, and chemical.

When working within complex and highly regulated equipment infrastructures, timely analysis of data from OT components is crucial, as any delay in detecting risks can result in downtime and revenue loss. To mitigate this, industry factories equip emerging technologies wanting to deliver stable, on-the-fly diagnostics and transport proper data but may struggle to maintain integrated control and security protocols. Combining process data and monitoring or security is very difficult and in case of incorrect design and implementation, in particular, the use of inappropriate communication and monitoring devices and software can bring disruptions and failures in technical and technological processes.

Addressing this is DYNACON’s ARIC Network Defense System (hardware and software) that enables reliable data transfer, anomaly detection, and problem resolution across an OT network. The hardware portfolio includes dedicated switches, routers, unified threat management devices, industrial data probes, diodes, preprocessors, scanners, analytical engines, security, and more.

It also provides and integrates third-party solutions like smart power strips, servers, arrays, technical security systems, PLC, HMI, Sensors, etc. to design and implement a secure OT environment.

DYNACON boosts and stabilizes data processing, storage, and diagnostics for smooth data and network management, emphasizing vertical, horizontal, and SaaS integrations compatible with network-connected OT devices and machinery. Its SOC (Security Operations Center) solutions, comprising expert team support, tools, and procedures, help clients deploy central systems that can unify monitoring and security processes and build OT environments with minimized fault and failure ICS systems.

Beyond these competencies, it conducts training programs to educate security personnel on the full scope of implementations, from design to deployment and exploitation, for various hybrid requirements in OT and IT environments. This team trains engineers from zero to expert level.

In essence, its comprehensive technological, instrumentation, control, and cybersecurity solutions suite allow users to build reliable administrative OT and IT environments to increase the efficiency and security of OT networks and processes, according to OT-specific needs.
DYNACON's services are backed by 30 years of experience. Its teams (18 years on the market) deliver technical network and cybernetic solutions for many national facilities with critical infrastructures, while dedicated inhouse and third-party software help create and implement secure environments OT and IT.

“At DYNACON, we have a holistic view of the issues occurring in the OT environment, which allows us to stabilize a business continuity, boost their cyber resistance, reduce OPEX and CAPEX, and minimize repair costs,” says Andrzej Cieślak, chairman of the board at DYNACON.

DYNACON delving deeper into OT cybersecurity aspects observes how many suppliers hide behind various issues, including in-house standards, certifications, traditions, and warranties, to defend themselves against regulatory audits, monitoring, and security analytics. It believes the practice where industrial technology providers offer tools to assess their OT solutions is a dangerous practice deemed as one cannot be both a judge and defendant of their trial.

With this mindset, DYNACON delivers hardware and software technologies that create a secure, compliant, and ever-improving OT network. For example, it assisted many conventional power and heat plants, struggling with technical debt and on new investments, with equipment incompatibility, and non-compliance due to the ineffective implementation of OT systems. DYNACON removed many control system defects during such projects and delivered effective network environment implementation, proper monitoring solutions and cybersecurity systems, and timely assistance, driving multi-million-euro cost savings.

DYNACON strives to create a complete cybersecurity solution supporting business continuity, increasing the digital, technological, and human resilience of the OT systems, and protecting all ICS systems and networks from ever-evolving digital anomalies and attacks in an era of increasing cyberthreats.