Northrop Grumman
The Client
Northrop Grumman Corporation is a global aerospace and defense technology company. With 90,000 employees and an annual revenue in excess of $30 billion, it is one of the world's largest weapons manufacturers and military technology providers.
Aeronautics Systems manufactures military aircraft, autonomous systems, aerospace structures and next-generation surveillance, strike and commercial solutions with a global supply-chain.
The Challenge
With the ever growing threat of cyber intrusion, not just at the organization level, but at the manufacturing shop floor level Northrop required a partner to asses and architect a strategy
Compliance with the federal government's National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST 800-171, which governs Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) in Non-Federal Information Systems and Organizations was also paramount
The Solution
AGR, an Argano company performed the cyber security assessment of the El Segundo Manufacturing Facilities' compliance with NIST 800-171 requirements and compliance with DFARS 252.204.7012
Assessment included Factory Industrial Control Systems (FICS) located on low trust networks, air-gapped devices, input-output application points, internal processing for operating systems, data storage, and external transaction data handling
Architected a solution covering remediation and recurring absolution of these items including run modules to identify potential data incursions at the PLC level for FICS devices
The Result
With the run modules to identify data incursions for the FICS devices and the architected data warehouse and analytics reporting to identify and action potential data incursions
Northrop was able to meet DFAR and NIST compliance and protect the manufacturing plants at the machine level from cyber intrusions
“AGR’s expertise and responsiveness made a complex security initiative seamless. Their team understood our environment and delivered ahead of schedule.”
— Client Name, Northrop Grumman