Video: How Tata Chemicals Securely Connects Third-Party Vendors to Critical OT Resources

Tata Chemicals is a trona ore mining and processing company based in southwest Wyoming. The Tata team turned to Cyolo to help ensure that external vendors and contractors could remotely access critical operational technology (OT) without increasing the risk of a data breach.

Watch this short case study video to discover how Tata Chemicals uses the Cyolo PRO remote access solution to securely grant and oversee third-party access to internal systems, programmable logic controllers (PLCs), and other sensitive systems and equipment.

Video Transcript 

McKay Smith, IT Manager, Tata Chemicals: So, one of the primary focuses that we had was on securing external access into our networks and making sure that we don't have a data breach from an outside source. We use Cyolo to help us with that through remote access. We can ensure that we have zero trust access as well as multi-factor authentication, and that has helped us secure a big hole that we had.

So we use Cyolo to grant and to monitor vendor [and] contractor access to our internal systems, data, PLCs, all those kind of things that they need to access. And one of the nice things about Cyolo is that we can record sessions, we can ask for manager approval in order to allow those people in. Everyone knows when they're accessing any of our resources and it's all approved. Those features have made Cyolo a gamechanger for us. 

Gibson Mark, Senior Systems Administrator, Tata Chemicals: Cyolo allows us to limit access to both internal and third party users through the policies and connections within the platform itself. So we're able to very easily restrict users or groups of users to the specific systems, ports, and protocols that they need to access without having to set up a bunch of complex firewall rules or routes or application filters. It gives us a single place to manage all of these connections within the Cyolo platform itself. 

The importance of authentication and access control is critical in in any organization. It's the first line of defense, so to speak, to the sensitive systems and data in your organization. So to be able to properly secure that with our environment is something that we're very happy to be able to do with Cyolo.