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Utility cybersecurity built around continuity of essential services.

CYNAPSE connects generation, substations, pumping stations, treatment processes, remote sites, SCADA, and telecom to consequence-led cyber assurance that regulators and boards can follow.

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The challenge

What sets Energy & Water apart.

From substations and pumping stations to the control centre: consequence-led risk for services the public cannot do without.

Public consequence

A cyber event can interrupt supply, affect water quality, or damage equipment. Decisions must be tied to those consequences.

Hundreds of remote sites

Unmanned stations, telemetry links, and contractor access widen the attack surface faster than teams can review it.

Regulators want proof

Boards and regulators ask for evidence of risk reduction over time, not a snapshot assessment.

In scope

The systems you can model.

Each system becomes assets, zones, and interfaces in one project, so risk, exposure, and evidence stay connected to what actually runs.

  • Substation automation (IEC 61850)
  • Pumping and lift stations
  • Treatment process control
  • SCADA and control centre
  • Telemetry and RTUs
  • Smart metering head-end
  • Remote maintenance access
  • Corporate-OT interfaces
How CYNAPSE helps

Protect essential services from source to control centre.

RABUILD GRC carries the risk, controls, and security case. Exposure Engine ranks vulnerabilities by what the asset does. Navai Assistant guides each step.

See the complete service chain

Map facilities, process dependencies, remote assets, control networks, command paths, and critical supporting services.

Assess consequence-driven scenarios

Connect cyber events to loss of control, service interruption, environmental impact, safety, equipment damage, and public consequences.

Prioritize practical safeguards

Evaluate segmentation, remote access, hardening, monitoring, recovery, manual fallback, and compensating controls in operational context.

Govern improvement over time

Track risk treatment, validation evidence, ownership, residual risk, and readiness across projects and operating facilities.

Standards

The standards your assessors will ask about.

Built in: control libraries ship with RABUILD GRC. Traced: captured as project requirements and linked to the same controls, evidence, and reports.

IEC 62443Zones, conduits, and security levels for control systemsBuilt in
NIST CSF 2.0Cyber risk outcomes for leadershipBuilt in
ISO/IEC 27001Information security managementBuilt in
CIS Controls v8Prioritized hardening safeguardsBuilt in
NERC CIPBulk electric system requirements (North America)Traced
NIS2 and national rulesOperator obligations for energy and waterTraced
Example

Remote access across 120 pumping stations

An illustrative engagement showing how the work flows through CYNAPSE.

The situation

A water utility lets contractors reach station PLCs through a shared VPN. The board asks how exposed the network is and what to fix first.

    In CYNAPSE
  1. 1Model the stations, their PLCs, and the shared contractor VPN as a conduit into every site.
  2. 2Run exposure discovery and rank findings by station criticality and reachability from the VPN.
  3. 3Assess the loss-of-control scenario, record treatments, and track closure with evidence.
What you get

A board-level exposure brief and a regulator-ready treatment register showing risk reduction month by month.

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Further reading

Practical guidance from the Knowledge Center.

Field notes and playbooks written for teams that run critical systems.

Case Study

Retrofitting Zone Boundaries at a Regional Water Treatment Utility

A water utility introduced zone boundaries and remote-access controls around SCADA and PLC systems that had been reachable from general...

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Building a Defensible Risk Register During a Substation Automation Upgrade

A power distribution utility used NIST CSF categories and standard risk-register discipline to make a substation automation upgrade's cyber risks...

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NIST CSF 2.0 Quick Reference for Critical Infrastructure Operators

A condensed, practitioner-focused walkthrough of the six CSF 2.0 functions and how to use them as a maturity lens.

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We walk through your systems, standards, and reporting needs, using the example above as a starting point.

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