Kaspersky Lab and the Brewers of Pilsner Urquell Work Together to Secure Beverage Industry

Kaspersky Lab and Plzensky Prazdroj have today announced the successful completion of a cybersecurity partnership to improve the overall industrial security posture of the brewery. Kaspersky lab was engaged by the world-famous brewery, known for producing Pilsner Urquell and being the inspiration behind more than two-thirds of the beer produced in the world today, to help harden its industrial cyber security posture and improve the resistance of production lines and operational technology to cyberattacks.
Cyber-attacks against industrial networks have become prevalent in recent years. According to the Kaspersky Lab Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (Kaspersky Lab ICS CERT), 37.8% of (ICS) computers worldwide has been attacked by cyber threats in the second half of 2017.

A single industrial cyber-attack can have major disruptive potential and carries the very real threat of damaging the industrial processes and even threatening business continuity with an average enterprise losing $1.2M if an incident is not detected within a week[1]. It is for these reasons that Plzensky Prazdroj therefore takes cyber security very seriously. The company worked with Kaspersky Lab to identify possible attack vectors and security gaps in its complex IT infrastructure.

Kaspersky Lab undertook a thorough cybersecurity assessment (CSA), a minimally invasive remote and on premise cybersecurity assessment that began with an Infrastructure audit and threat model development across the 2 brew houses and 8 packaging lines at the plant. The CSA also examined the corporate network linked to industrial zone, SCADA software and identified all uncontrolled external connections to and from the industrial floor. As a result Kaspersky Lab experts were able to provide a list of discovered vulnerabilities, zero-day vulnerabilities, details of possible attack vectors and actionable recommendations. This way Plzeňský Prazdroj IT security team averted potential attack disastrous consequences that could negatively affect breweries safety, reliability, and the company’s bottom line.