Life Sciences Cybersecurity Solutions

9 Ways to Strengthen Cybersecurity in Life Sciences

Deploy modern security practices with help from Rockwell Automation

The pharmaceutical industry is highly vulnerable to cyberattacks, given confidential healthcare data and intellectual property. We use the NIST Cybersecurity Framework to address five categories of an effective defense: Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond and Recover.

The Identify phase uses professional cybersecurity assessments to reveal gaps. Penetration testing and asset inventories, for example, can be performed to assess risks and vulnerabili-ties. Protections are then planned and implemented in the Protect phase, often including network enhancements like segmentation and IDMZ deployment, perimeter hardening, OT patching, and secure remote access controls.

24/7 threat detection is the key step in the Detect phase. We offer design and implementation of threat detection solutions as well as managed threat detection services via an OT Security Operations Center (SOC). And in Respond and Recover categories, Incident Response and re-covery plans and playbooks are documented and tested.

Rockwell Automation can secure your Life Sciences operations across all five NIST categories to address cyber risk with a scalable, comprehensive OT cyber strategy.

A Proactive Approach to Cybersecurity

Keeping pace with the speed of IIoT innovation

The Industrial Internet of Things can help drive innovation and improved performance. IoT ap-plications in the pharmaceutical industry, for example, have greatly contributed to the speed of pandemic vaccine rollouts. Yet the IIoT also comes with the potential for enterprise risks, if the right cybersecurity protections are not in place.

Physical security is not enough. Commonly used attacks are still succeeding in legacy infrastruc-tures. Attacks are also becoming more sophisticated and pervasive, targeting OT networks more frequently. With the potential for huge losses, applying cybersecurity to Industrial Con-trol Systems (ICS) today means going proactive.

Rockwell Automation brings extensive operational experience from decades of experience on the facility floor in Life Sciences organizations, along with in-depth OT / ICS cybersecurity ex-pertise. We can help your organization securely evolve from traditional to digital operations as we also help reduce cyber risks.

Eli Lilly’s Secure Digital Transformation

How IT and OT collaboration support pharmaceutical cybersecurity

While many companies are in the midst of breaking down barriers between their IT and opera-tional technology (OT) organizations to create smarter production operations, Eli Lilly and Co. started that process more than a decade ago.

Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly, a global healthcare leader with products marketed in 120 countries, has long fostered a willingness to continually improve and adapt digital technologies. Central to its digital transformation journey is its strong partnership between IT and OT.

This IT/OT collaboration evolved and is driving the company’s serialization, cybersecurity, analytics and other digitization efforts.

Eli Lilly has been reaping the benefits of its efforts since the early 2010s. For example, IT and OT collaborated to develop an understanding of industrial cybersecurity risks, a plan to mitigate immediate risks and an ongoing strategy for best-available protection.