XONA : SECURING REMOTE ASSETS FOR BURNS & MCDONNELL
Bill Moore , founder and CEO of Xona , discusses an evolving partnership
Bill Moore founded Xona Systems in 2017 . Having worked for over 20 years on IT , OT , networking and security operations , he identified an unaddressed vulnerability in the control rooms of power plants and distributed assets of all kinds . “ There needed to be a way of remotely operating in a much more secure and compliant way ,” he says .
Xona ’ s flagship Critical System Gateway ( CSG ) was a perfect fit with global engineering and construction firm Burns & McDonnell . “ The pandemic underlined the difficulty of getting to remote sites to provision new control systems and the like : Burns & McDonnell needed to be able to do more with fewer people . We can give them a secure way to operate those systems without going to sites of that nature .“
Zero trust cybersecurity is a key advantage of Xona ’ s CSG . “ Burns & McDonnell has been forward-thinking and a leader in how construction firms operate . We have talked to them in depth about cybersecurity and how to protect their assets , and immediately they understood the benefits right away : we were on the same page !”
The partnership with Burns & McDonnell is evolving all the time , Moore emphasises . “ We ’ re always looking to improve our platform . We ’ re going to be launching our next generation this year . We integrate with the best security information management ( SIM ) and multi-factor authentication providers , and we ’ ve worked to make that more flexible and enterprise-ready .
Looking forward , we see an opportunity to expand the amount of analytics we can garner from how users interact and operate technology . We ’ re excited to be working with Burns & McDonnell and looking forward to a bright future bringing security and safety to enterprises and all the people they serve throughout the world .”
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