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Nozomi Networks created a product that is difficult to use and they did not focus on user experience. Users are forced to create data queries within their platform to receive information about any asset on their OT network. This time-consuming process can take over 15 minutes per query to get a view into their OT environment. This outdated and complex process is not intuitive and not user-friendly.
Unlike Nozomi Networks, SCADAfence is designed with end-users in mind without losing any functionality. The user-friendly interface handles the display of tens of thousands of assets without overwhelming users. The SCADAfence UI has a quick response time, which allows users to visualize their entire OT network, easily manage security alerts, create instant reports and identify specific areas of focus. Users can also pull up any asset and see everything in one place without needing to write any queries or overcomplicating simple functions.
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Nozomi Networks have baselines that take two to four weeks to set and understand your network before they start alerting. This outdated and time-consuming process results in high deployment costs and difficult maintenance over time, making deployments very resource-consuming.
SCADAfence’s deployment takes just two days, including large deployments of multiple sites. Additionally, SCADAfence provides statistical data on endpoints without needing access to the data. This is another advantage that SCADAfence has over solutions like Nozomi Networks. Having multiple sites fully configured within two days instead of two to four weeks is a significant advantage in security and resources.
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SCADAfence’s industrial DPI sensors leverage low resource hardware with small form-factor with minimal specifications. Additionally, the central SCADAfence Platform can scale to hundreds of distributed sensors, serving tens of thousands of devices without any performance degradation. This eliminates the need for local sensors and makes deployments practical and easily maintainable.
Other solutions like Nozomi Networks, use sensors that forward mass amounts of traffic to their central server which creates massive overloading of the network. To solve this issue, SCADAfence uses unique “Smart” sensors that perform a local analysis of the information and optimize network traffic for remote low bandwidth or slow connections which are impossible to monitor with other solutions.
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SCADAfence provides the only customizable governance portal in the OT security industry, which automates all aspects of compliance and monitors the progress made over time across all sites. To ensure that critical infrastructures organizations comply with Biden's cyber security customers are easily ensuring they are compliant with their industry compliance standards and organizational policies based on actual network traffic, for standards such as NERC-CIP, IEC-62443, NIST, ISO-27001, NIS NCSC, NIST CSF, CMMC, and even with an organization's own internal compliance standards.
SCADAfence allows IT and OT departments to simply define and monitor the organizational adherence to organizational policies and to OT-related regulations.
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Unlike Nozomi Networks, the SCADAfence Platform has advanced support for MITRE ATT&CK for ICS. All platform alerts are mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK for the ICS model. The SCADAfence Platform provides a map of attack advances according to the MITRE kill chain, and per each alert - the corresponding classification is also presented.
In the case of security incidents, this can greatly help customers to understand the phase of the incident, its extent and impact, and respond in a quicker and more effective way. With Nozomi Networks, organizations will be alerted of different risks that relate to MITRE ATT&CK for ICS and what part of the alert it relates to, but they can’t show it.
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Nozomi Networks does not provide organizations with remote access tracking and does not provide visibility into user activities on the network. They also cannot correlate user activities between IT and OT networks, which is crucial due to the rise of remote work. This results in organizations not having or having limited visibility into their OT networks that are being accessed by remote users. Additionally, they do not provide a concrete correlation of remote user connections.
SCADAfence offers this out of the box, providing visibility of remote users’ activities in your network by correlating OT & IT protocols with a remote access connection. SCADAfence’s non-configuration remote access feature does not require any changes in network architecture, does not impact user experience and does not demand manual work of going over session recordings.
| Feature | SCADAfence | Nozomi Networks |
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| Faster Time to Value | Fast | Intermediate |
| IT / OT Governance Portal |
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| Remote Access Security Without Architecture Changes |
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| False Positive Rates | Low | High |
| Behavioral Baselining Period | 1-2 days | 2-4 weeks |
| Smart Sensors |
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| Total Cost of Ownership / Deployment Costs | Low | High |
