Foundation for Utilities

Foundation Management helps utility companies secure their infrastructure against the Insider Threat, meet CIP compliance, increase the reliability of their IT infrastructure, reduce the costs of operations, and to optimize their IT services.

What Problems does it Solve?

Security

Foundation Management for utility is used to prevent insiders from:

• Gaining access to, altering or destroying sensitive data
• Inappropriate actions that may be disruptive or destructive in nature
• Disruption from improper configuration of components or systems
• Inserting destructive code or programs into the infrastructure

For more on Foundation Management Security and Defending against the Insider Threat
visit: Defense Foundation

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Compliance

To help meet CIP compliance, Foundation Management for utility addresses compliance concerns by:

• Securing and managing privileged component interfaces
• Detecting, relating, documenting, and treating CIP-related events
• Creating forensic records to validate compliance and support audits

For more on Foundation Management Compliance for regulatory Intent and Interpretation
visit: Compliance Foundation

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IT Operations

Foundation Management helps utility providers meet the challenge to "do more with less" by:

• Reducing the Incident "Detect, Diagnose, Treat" life cycle
• Improving IT Operations efficiency and decreasing costs
• Averting preventable failures and stopping cascading failures
• Providing secure, remote access for monitoring and management

visit: IT Operations Foundation

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Services

Foundation Management helps utility providers meet SLAs, increase reliability, and decrease support costs with:

• Faster detection and remediation of threats to SLAs
• Reduction of work and cost of after-the-fact remediation through proactive management
• Demonstrable evidence of what occurred and when, as a matter of record for critical data behind the operation of services.

For more on Foundation Management for IT Services for meeting SLAs and KPIs
visit: IT Services Foundation

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Virtualization

The Virtualization Module extends the ability of the Foundation for Utilities to include virtualization technologies in the Defense, Compliance, IT Operations and IT Services strategy by including support for hypervisors and Virtual Machines (XEN, VMware).

For more on Foundation Management for Virtualization Technologies
visit: Virtualization Foundation

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The Utility Foundation from TDi Technologies® helps secure the organization from the Insider Threat (and outsiders who breach perimeter defenses), meet both the intent and the interpretations of CIP compliance regulation, improve the efficiency and reliability of the IT Operations and support utility service providers, and deliver IT Services with proactive management of Key Performance Indicators (such as Service Level Agreements).

With Foundation Management, utility organizations increase their ability to adapt their business against internal and external pressures without eroding or compromising the technological foundation their business is built on. Foundation Management secures the present, records the past, and prepares the organization for the future.