Harden critical infrastructures profoundly and sustainably against cyberattacks
Increase the resilience of your Critical Infrastructure systems! How? With professional System Hardening, you can proactively protect your critical IT environment from attacks.
Why is System Hardening so important
in the Critical Infrastructure Sector?
Organizations that fall into the category “Critical Infrastructure” have a significant responsibility to society. Among other things, they ensure the provision of services and the common good. Furthermore, energy suppliers, hospitals, food logistics providers, port operators, data centers, and other critical stakeholders are under massive attack as cyberattacks continue to increase.
For this reason, the legislature has enacted various regulations. These require the best possible protection for critical infrastructures. Numerous IT security strategies exist for this purpose, divided into the areas of “prevention,” “detection,” and “response.”
One essential preventative measure is System Hardening, which allows you to configure IT landscapes to ensure fundamental security.
Critical Infrastructure:
What are the benefits of Hardening?
✅ Reducing attack surfaces
Critical Infrastructure systems are attractive targets. Any unnecessary component can be exploited as an attack vector. By consistently removing, disabling, or securing services, applications, and ports, the attack surface is significantly reduced.
✅ Compliance with regulations
Laws, industry-specific regulations, and standards (e. g. ISO 27001) require operators of critical and system-relevant systems to secure them using state-of-the-art technology. Hardening systems is a key component of these requirements.
✅ Improved resilience
When systems are hardened, their stability and operational reliability increase. As a result, disruptions caused by malware, unwanted configurations, or incorrect operation occur less frequently. And the risk of expensive, serious failures is significantly reduced.
Our solution:
Automated Hardening for Critical Infrastructure systems
Manually implementing professional System Hardening is very time-consuming. This is especially true for very large and heterogeneous IT system landscapes, where tens of thousands of settings must be configured, continuously monitored, logged, and adjusted.
Therefore, the entire System Hardening process (implementation, monitoring, and optimization) needed to be designed as efficiently as possible and supported by technical support. For this purpose, we developed Enforce Administrator.
⏬ Download: Enforce Administrator Product Brochure (PDF)
With this hardening tool “made in Germany,” you can perform automated System Hardening based on proven standards. Therefore, Enforce Administrator is increasingly being used by companies and organizations in the Critical Infrastructure Sector.
How Enforce Administrator supports System Hardening
NIS2, ISO 27001, and many other regulations relevant for critical infrastructure, stipulate numerous requirements for hardening your IT systems. With Enforce Administrator, you can optimally meet these and other requirements.
Use of Established Standards
🛑 Self-devised security settings are a thing of the past! To comply with regulations, laws, and standards, you must use established standards in System Hardening.
✅ With Enforce Administrator, your systems are hardened according to the latest, globally recognized benchmarks – for example, according to the recommendations of CIS, DISA, BSI, ACSC, and Microsoft. You can also use customized hardening configurations.
Monitoring Settings
🛑 Regular measures to monitor the actual implementation of the Secure Configuration are extremely important. They are considered a “must-have.”
✅ Enforce Administrator continuously monitors your systems and provides centralized reporting. Deviations from the target configuration are detected and automatically corrected. This creates a kind of “self-healing system.”
Reports and Audits
🛑 Are the systems properly hardened, for example, according to CIS specifications or other established recommendations? Organizations in the Critical Infrastructure Sector must regularly maintain comprehensive records of their IT security measures.
✅ Enforce Administrator creates reports and audit documentation at the click of a button. These can even be integrated into reporting systems via technical interfaces.
Easy Implementation
🛑 The recommended hardening measures are extremely difficult, incomplete, and very time-consuming to implement manually or using Windows Group Policies. GPOs are therefore considered a “no-go” for compliant Hardening.
✅ Enforce Administrator doesn’t rely on GPOs, but rather uses integrated tools and requires no client software. And: Since it’s a no-code tool, you don’t have to write a single line of code yourself.
💬 Interested? Get in touch with us!
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What our customers say
“With Enforce Administrator, we were able to meet our company’s System Hardening requirements on time. We were able to harden all Windows servers and clients according to established specifications in a relatively short time and document the status on an ongoing basis. FB Pro supported us significantly with their experience.”
Harald Große-Kathöfer / SÜDVERS
IT System Engineer
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“By specifically securing our IT systems and using Enforce Administrator, we have significantly improved our IT security measures. This not only creates the basis for greater security, but also fulfills key regulatory requirements.”
Martin Khoury / Aachener Grundvermögen
Chief Information Security Officer
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“Enforce Administrator has helped us to secure our server landscape and workstations with state-of-the-art technology. The cooperation with the specialists from FB Pro GmbH was goal-oriented, efficient and professional.”
Florian Brugger / STADTWERK AM SEE
IT Infrastructure Project Manager
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“The collaboration with FB Pro went just as you would wish: with a high level of professionalism and a feel for our needs and requirements, the project was completed in a surprisingly short time. The documented and proven security gain is impressive. I would like to thank everyone involved for their commitment and smooth implementation.”
Alexander Wüllner / Hundt Consult
Managing Director
