International Boundary and Water Commission
October 3, 2018
AITHERAS provides the International Boundary and Water Commission (IBWC), a sub-agency of the U.S. Department of State, with a custom-tailored approach to addressing their security operations, management, monitoring, and compliance needs.
Through our cutting-edge virtual security operations center (VSOC), AITHERAS provides Continuous Security Monitoring (CSM), Vulnerability Modeling (VM), and Managed Security Services to IBWC to achieve 24/7, around-the-clock security monitoring, while reducing security costs and meeting FISMA and SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) compliance requirements.
IBWC is a federal agency that applies the boundary and water treaties of the United States and Mexico, and settles differences that may arise in their application. The organization is spread over 15 different locations across the southern border, and manages several critical national infrastructures to include the water treatment plant for the city of Nogales. The primary mission of the agency includes the following:
Regulation and conservation of the waters of the Rio Grande for their use by the two countries by joint construction, operation, and maintenance of international storage dams and reservoirs, and plants for generating hydroelectric energy at the dams
Protection of lands along the river from floods by levee and floodway projects
Border sanitation solutions and other quality problems pertaining to water
Preservation of the Rio Grande and Colorado River as the international boundary
Demarcation of the land boundary
AITHERAS’ expert team uses our robust suite of tools to manage and monitor the security of IBWC’s edge devices (firewalls and IDSs) at all endpoints, and the existing McAfee Nitro SIEM, to help them achieve FISMA regulatory compliance through the continuous collection, analysis, and diagnosis of threat and vulnerability data.
OUR SERVICE OFFERING FOR IBWC INCLUDES:
Firewall/IDS Management and Monitoring
24/7/365 centralized management service via the VSOC
24/7/365 monitoring, alerting and incident response via the VSOC
Continuous Security Monitoring
Current state security best practice assessment
Implementation/configuration of all devices as required
Ongoing updates, upgrades, changes and enhancements
Log Management and Alerting
24/7/365 Service via AITHERAS Team’s Continuous Security Monitoring (CSM)
Analysis, alerting and incident response
Security-focused enhancement of McAfee Nitro instances covering 300 nodes
Integration of McAfee-based Nitro datafeeds with advanced AITHERAS CSM analytics
AITHERAS also provides FISMA remediation services, supporting IBWC government leads when working with auditors to resolve any FISMA requirement gaps, and has developed and implemented a full upgrade of the IBWC Nogales SCADA solution.