OVERVIEW
Society depends on the secure operation of critical infrastructure to function. Anchoram has an array of services to help in this highly specialised area of security. We can assist in keeping the cyber-physical systems that your organisation depends on up and running, despite any threats.
Protecting the operational imperative
Standards Assessment
Understanding security postures against known sources of authority is a guaranteed method providing traceability to reinforce both investment proposals and maturity across various cyber security domains.
Anchoram has experience providing analysis against industry standards. We can provide strategic views for organisations seeking to adopt a standards-based approach to applying the controls and countermeasures represented in the standards.
Systems Resilience
Our deep understanding of resilience across both energy and water systems can be readily leveraged by utilities who may not have the dedicated resources to address the potential threats to their systems.
We offer a range of security services that cover the spectrum from cyber to physical and personnel. We deliver advice, assurance, and audit services to help with your supply chains, quality assurance, security health checks, foreign interference testing, risk assessments, and more.
OT/IT Convergence Strategies
Understanding the interactions between operational systems and ICT is a key part of ensuring the security of an asset heavy organisation.
Our teams are experienced in the security of and technologies surrounding OT control systems, including assets such as SCADA, ADMS, and DMS. We understand the need to integrate with ICT systems for scheduling, asset inventory, and enterprise resource planning, and can readily develop secure methods of achieving this whilst supporting both business and operational stakeholder goals.
Why Anchoram?
The common thread across all utilities is the aim to protect the operational imperative by being able to continue to operate resiliently.
In our modern era technologies provide flexible ways to ensure that asset heavy operations can meet the needs of large customer bases, ensuring that these technologies are compliant with regulation. ‘Secure and mature’ is a key foundation of operational assurance.
The Anchoram team have notable experience in the form of both industry and research and provide actionable strategies for utility operators across regulation, technology and strategic aspects.
In fact, our team has even published multiple papers on the topic, and literally wrote the definition for Power Systems Resilience!
Sector-Specific Services
Our Industrial specialisation covers the critical cyber-physical systems such as the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) for the manufacturing sector.
Our Transport sector clients include organisations that operate, supply, and design aviation, rail, road, and maritime systems and infrastructure.
Our Space sector experience includes the ground, communications and space segments, as well as the data and supply chains that support them.
Our Utilities expertise covers both energy and water sectors, including renewables, smart grids, filtration plants, and oil & gas pipelines and facilities.
INDUSTRY LEAD
James Kambourian
Industry Lead
Critical Infrastructure
20+ years in Enterprise technology with the last 10 years focusing on management, architecture, systems engineering, advisory and cyber security focused on operational and corporate technologies.
James has managed high performing teams and operational budgets developing uplift strategies, solution implementations, advisories and assessments. These enabled the management and secure operation of technologies across the critical infrastructure sectors with a focus on the transportation and utilities sectors.
James sees cybersecurity as being less driven by tools and technology and more about managing the risk when technology is implemented and used, and tying this in with processes and people complete the operating picture. He views security as an enabler, allowing the business to operate securely in the required manner.
His career highlights include establishing the cybersecurity practice for the first fully automated railway in Australia as part of the mobilisation team, working on the development group for the Australian Standard for Cyber Security in Rail AS7770 and in current roles representing several large Government Utilities to implement the Australian Energy Sector Cybersecurity Framework. Also liaising with the Commonwealth Critical Infrastructure Centre and Australian Cyber Security Centre in addition to working with Defence and Commonwealth clients across platforms such as LAND 8116, GovTEAMS and the Hosting Certification Framework.
