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Design, Protect, Optimize

Sectors critical to infrastructure are facing a significant increase in targeted cyberattacks. Our consultants have experience supporting critical industries — utilities, manufacturing, defense industrial base, ports and maritime, oil, gas and chemicals, transportation and others — to maximize their security infrastructure. From design through ongoing assessment and optimization, we can support you across any stage of your cybersecurity journey.

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Cyber Optimization Services

A risk- and threat-informed perspective regularly measures and monitors security investments against business objectives to optimize investments and support uninterrupted operations.

Design, Deployment & Integration

End-to-end risk analysis of your current operating system is used to develop an optimized solution to protect your assets against the specific challenges you face.

Managed Security Services

1898 & Co. Managed Security Services keeps you focused on your responsibilities — and confident your operations and information are secure and resilient. Combining always‑on services with 24/7 support, we can help you reduce on‑site staffing levels without sacrificing the quality of your monitoring or incident response capabilities.

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Our Work

Gaining Operational Resiliency and Reliability Through the Management of Cybersecurity Threats

Critical infrastructure companies often struggle to keep their operations protected from cybersecurity attacks. Unlike other firms that focus mostly on information technology cybersecurity, 1898 & Co. is one of the first firms to support operational technology through managed threat services.

Balancing Cybersecurity and Production in the Oil and Gas Industry

Cyberattacks are often successful due to security lapses caused by internal shortcuts. In order to find vulnerabilities and offer remedies, 1898 & Co. analyzed the systemwide architecture and field deployments of a global energy company determined to shore up its cybersecurity.

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Armis, the leading asset visibility and security company, provides the industry’s first unified asset intelligence platform designed to address the new extended attack surface that connected assets create. Fortune 100 companies trust our real-time and continuous protection to see with full context all managed, unmanaged assets across IT, cloud, IoT devices, medical devices (IoMT), operational technology (OT), industrial control systems (ICS), and 5G. Armis provides passive cyber asset management, risk management, and automated enforcement.

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Partnering with Claroty allows 1898 & Co. to offer market-leading solutions focused on industrial cybersecurity threat detection, management and security for operational technology (OT), internet of things (IoT) and industrial internet of things (IIoT) assets. 1898 & Co. is an authorized reseller and has certified practitioners and project experience. We are a preferred channel partner for critical infrastructure environments.

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1898 & Co. relies on our partnership with Dragos to help you monitor and detect cyberthreats to critical infrastructure assets. The Dragos software platform is an integral component of 1898 & Co.’s managed security services, providing cyber protection for the industrial controls systems and operational technologies markets. 1898 & Co. is an authorized reseller, has certified practitioners and leverages Dragos within its own managed threat detection, managed threat protection and managed security services offerings. We are a preferred channel partner for critical infrastructure environments.

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1898 & Co. and Fend Inc. have partnered to bring enhanced effective secure barrier diode separation to asset owners and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). This partnership brings together Fend's physical cybersecurity technology with 1898's offerings for the management and protection of critical infrastructure worldwide. Together, we help customers improve efficiency and resilience while protecting against cyber threats. As a Fend partner, 1898 & Co. is licensed and equipped to sell, install, maintain and provide support for Fend products.

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1898 & Co. has partnered with Forescout Technologies to offer a cybersecurity platform that provides continuous security monitoring and mitigation. It allows information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) professionals to efficiently address access, endpoint compliance and threat management challenges inherent in today’s dynamic enterprise networks.1898 & Co. is an authorized reseller of Forescout for OT monitoring and detection has project experience with Forescout and is a preferred channel partner for critical infrastructure environments.

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1898 & Co. is one of a select few private companies partnered to implement Idaho National Labs’ (INL) market-leading Consequence-Driven, Cyber-Informed Engineering (CCE) methodology to protect critical functions and counter cyber sabotage from highly skilled adversaries. We are a licensed and authorized partner, have completed all required education, training and on-the-job training, and our consultants are getting project experience. Asset owners can also receive INL's CCE ACCELERATE training from 1898 & Co.

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Industrial Defender protects critical infrastructure from cyberattacks. As a leader in OT cybersecurity innovation, the company’s scalable platform is used by organizations around the world to empower security stakeholders with actionable data from their OT and IIoT infrastructure, enabling them to make informed risk management decisions and manage their OT cybersecurity program in a concise, single vendor dashboard. 

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MixMode is a no-rules Cybersecurity platform, serving large enterprises with big data environments across a variety of industries. MixMode delivers a patented, self-learning platform that acts as the Cybersecurity Intelligence LayerSM to detect both known and unknown attacks, including novel attacks designed to bypass legacy cyber defenses. 

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1898 & Co. has partnered with PAS to aggregate and organize asset configurations and inventories across multiple disparate systems. The resulting visualization is simple and intuitive, allowing industrial personnel to assess the current state of operations while documenting important knowledge about the environment. 1898 & Co. is an authorized reseller of PAS and a preferred channel partner for critical infrastructure environments.

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1898 & Co. is partnered with Swimlane, a leading security, orchestration, automation and response (SOAR) platform provider to help automate processes and improve efficiencies of cybersecurity operations teams.1898 & Co. is an authorized reseller of Swimlane for SOAR, has certified practitioners in Swimlane technology, has project experience and is a preferred channel partner for critical infrastructure environments. In addition, 1898 & Co. has developed a hardened appliance that allows Swimlane to scale significantly via a Kubernetes-based operating system.

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1898 & Co. has joined with Verve Industrial to promote its security platform, which includes asset inventory, vulnerability, patch and configuration management modules. This system management platform can reduce cyberattack risk, improve information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) process reliability, measure and report on target metrics, and drive improved productivity. 1898 & Co. is an authorized reseller of Verve, has certified practitioners and is a preferred channel partner for critical infrastructure environments.

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In working with Xage Security, 1898 & Co. provides solutions that assess cybersecurity postures and deploys those solutions to protect your core mission. This offering includes identity and remote access management, authentication of users and device life cycle management to effectively defend against a cybersecurity threat. 1898 & Co. is an authorized reseller of Xage, has certified practitioners and is a preferred channel partner for critical infrastructure environments.

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KANSAS CITY, Missouri  — 1898 & Co., a business, technology and security consultancy that is a part of the Burns & McDonnell family of companies, today announced that it has achieved Fortinet’s Operational Technology (OT) Partner Specialization as part of the Fortinet Engage Partner Program. 1898 & Co. is one of only seven companies in the U.S. who have received this special distinction.

In a fast-paced industry, specializations focused on market opportunities enabled by the Fortinet Engage Partner Program help partners be recognized and valued by current and potential customers as trusted advisors who have the expertise, services and technologies they need to meet their digital acceleration needs.

“In a world plagued by relentless cyberattacks, we consider our achievement of Fortinet’s OT specialization a testament to our industrial critical infrastructure cybersecurity prowess for serving as a reliable cybersecurity adviser,” said Mark Mattei, director for industrial cybersecurity at 1898 & Co. “This continued collaboration with Fortinet translates into a big win for our clients. The OT specialization underscores the advanced capabilities we use to help defend our clientele against cyberattacks within an increasingly complex OT digital landscape. Successfully meeting Fortinet’s rigorous standards speaks to our experience, technical knowledge and commitment to fighting cyberthreats on behalf of our industrial critical infrastructure clients. Because, as we all know, an organization must be vigilant when it comes to cybersecurity.”

“We congratulate 1898 & Co. for achieving Fortinet’s OT specialization. They are joining an exclusive group of partners that have received this designation in the U.S.,” said Michael Hooper, Director US OT Channels, Fortinet. “1898 & Co. is a valued Fortinet Engage partner and we look forward to our ongoing collaboration to help customers strengthen their OT security posture.”

With the OT specialization, partners are validated with deep expertise about how the convergence of OT and Information Technology (IT) impacts the security of OT and critical infrastructure environments. These partners can deliver the level of protection these unique networks require, whether combining new and existing solutions, or building a comprehensive cybersecurity mesh architecture designed to span hybrid IT and OT environments.

A Program Focused on Enabling Opportunities for Partners

Fortinet is committed to helping partners meet new and evolving customer challenges created by work-from-anywhere models, hybrid IT environments and the evolving threat landscape through Fortinet’s Engage Partner Program and enablement tools. The program is focused on enabling growth opportunities that are unique with Fortinet’s expansive portfolio built around the Fortinet Security Fabric, designed to secure customers’ entire infrastructure from the data center to the cloud.

In addition, Fortinet is committed to helping partners grow productive, predictable and rewarding relationships to differentiate themselves from competitors. The Fortinet Engage Partner program helps partners acquire the industry knowledge they need to increase business opportunities, deliver digital acceleration for customers with customizable programs and accelerate partner growth.

About 1898 & Co.

1898 & Co. is a global business and technology consultancy that brings together a unique blend of engineers and industry leaders to deliver strategic business insights and solutions for critical infrastructure industries. We partner with clients to plan, invest, secure and optimize critical assets for a successful, sustainable future.

About Burns & McDonnell

Burns & McDonnell is a family of companies bringing together an unmatched team of 14,500 engineers, construction and craft professionals, architects, and more to design and build our critical infrastructure. With an integrated construction and design mindset, we offer full-service capabilities. Founded in 1898 and working from 75 offices globally, Burns & McDonnell is 100% employee-owned. Learn how we are designed to build.

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