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Nozomi’s new “world-first” wireless spectrum sensor is designed from the ground up for IoT and OT environments.
Internet of things (IoT) and operational technology (OT) firm Nozomi Networks has announced the availability of Guardian Air in Australia.
Guardian Air is a new tool in the Nozomi Networks Platform that offers visibility into wireless devices, monitoring the most used wireless frequencies. Aside from Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, Guardian Air can monitor cellular, LoRaWAN, Zigbee, GPS, drone RF protocols, and WirelessHART, to name a few.
This gives security teams the ability to monitor wireless sensors, laptops, and even mobile phones. This could give early warning of brute force attacks, bluejacking, and spoofing, as well as help find where the attacking devices are located.
“Wireless is fundamentally changing the way industrial organisations operate. Unfortunately, it also massively expands the potential attack surface,” said Andrea Carcano, Nozomi Networks’ co-founder and chief product officer, in a statement.
“Guardian Air solves this problem by giving customers the accurate visibility they need at the wireless level to minimise risk while maximising resiliency. Because Guardian Air integrates easily into the Nozomi Networks Vantage platform, customers can combine network, endpoint and wireless for the greatest visibility, threat detection and AI-powered analysis for real-time security management and remediation across the entire attack surface.”
According to Nozomi, Guardian Air will allow local industries that rely upon wireless devices, such as primary industries and manufacturers, to meet the Australian government’s current requirements for secure-by-design networks.
Danielle VanZandt, industry manager for commercial and public security research at Frost & Sullivan, feels the release is timely.
“From smart manufacturing to digital medicine, to building automation, to modern oil field production and more, today industrial organisations are relying on billions of wireless devices to speed production and time to market,” VanZandt said.
“Guardian Air gives IT security professionals and OT operators the visibility they need to get a firm handle on wireless risk management and response.”
Guardian Air will be available in Australia shortly via Nozomi Networks and their channel partners.
David Hollingworth has been writing about technology for over 20 years, and has worked for a range of print and online titles in his career. He is enjoying getting to grips with cyber security, especially when it lets him talk about Lego.
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