Stefanini Cyber Defense, Shield-IoT Secure Connected Devices

May 17, 2023Stefanini Cyber Defense, which specializes in intelligence and cyber defense solutions, has signed a global partnership with Israeli-based Shield-IoT, a cybersecurity software solution provider for the Internet of Things (IoT). Leveraging Shield-IoT's Coreset-AI asset-management and threat-prevention platform, Stefanini will now serve multiple cybersecurity domains, including IoT and Industrial IoT (IIoT).

With more than 27 billion devices expected to be connected by 2025, driven by the growing maturity of technologies such as 5G, artificial intelligence (AI) and the cloud, enterprises are expected to increasingly rely on connected devices to enable sustainable automated services and fuel business growth, Stefani reports. As IoT networks mature, so does the need for security. With an estimated 57 percent of IoT devices vulnerable to medium- to high-severity attacks, the company explains, security firms are seeking ways in which to protect their organization and their IoT infrastructure.

"To expand our offering and meet growing customer needs, we are always looking for new portfolio products developed by partners who are market leaders in the relevant cybersecurity domain," said Leidivino Natal, Stefanini Cyber Defense's CEO, in a prepared statement. "The global partnership with Shield-IoT strengthens this movement and enriches the services of Stefanini Cyber Defense."

Udi Solomon, Shield-IoT's CEO and co-founder, added in the statement, "Hackers can easily hack out-of-perimeter and exposed-in-the-field devices via physical tampering or remote hacking. If compromised, this can lead to data theft and fraud, ransomware attacks, enterprise hacking attacks, service downtime, and even total disruption of the entire critical infrastructure."

Shield-IoT's AI Threat Prevention network security solution analyzes device-to-cloud traffic statistics to detect the first signs of unknown cyber-attacks and operational events, enabling it to prevent impact to customer networks, data or IoT services. The company's network-wide Asset Management solution, combined with real-time actionable alerts, enable automatic threat prevention to ensure continuous service operation. Built to protect out-of-perimeter IoT devices and applications, the agentless SaaS platform requires no device or network changes, with no impact on existing network performance.

Leveraging the new offering, Stefanini's customers across multiple IoT and IIoT verticals—ranging from energy, water, gas and oil retailers to airlines, mining and transportation—will be able to protect any connected device or application across any network, the partners explain. The service is available worldwide, and Stefanini Cyber Defense operates in 41 countries, with security operation centers in Brazil, Peru, Romania and India.

"As IoT networks continue to grow and as new threats emerge, customers require a single cost-effective solution that can automatically adapt to meet their needs," Natal added in the statement. "Stefanini and Shield-IoT provide a single centralized future-proof solution to protect any existing or future IoT device, application, or network with minimal total cost of ownership for our customers."