

NEWS AND EVENTS
Better overview. More control.
Av Nina Hesby Tvedt, CTO i Securenok
We continue to develop the SNOK® Cybersecurity Monitoring System with one clear goal: to make it easier to get an overview of the OT environment and understand what is actually happening from a security perspective.
With SNOK 1.19, we are introducing several improvements that make the solution easier to configure, manage, and scale. At the same time, users get better insight into the devices that SNOK monitors and their communication.
This release has a particular focus on user-friendliness, asset management, flexible configuration, and integration capabilities—important areas for both our customers and the partners who build services around SNOK.
Here are some of the most important new features, please contact us to receive the full release notes listing all new features and improvements.
Better overview of your OT assets
Asset Management in SNOK now allows the user to add custom attributes to assets and use these to structure information according to how your organization prefers to work. This could, for example, be information related to location, criticality, system, or other properties relevant to each specific OT environment. Import and export capabilities have also been extended, making it easier to manage asset information in larger environments.
Asset Details displays more information about each asset previously only found in the SNOK baseline, including which protocols the device uses and which IP addresses it communicates with. SNOK also extracts information from the network traffic andsupports additional protocols.
The result is richer asset data and a better picture of what actually exists and communicates within the OT environment.
Prioritize events according to criticality
Not all parts of an OT environment are equally critical.
The Security Impact Zone functionality has been extended to allow organizations to define custom zones and determine the severity level that alarms and events should receive within each zone.
One or more subnets can be linked to each Impact Zone, and you can create as many zones as the environment requires.
This makes it possible to assess an incident in the context of where it occurs. The same type of activity can have highly different significance depending on whether it takes place in a less critical area or in a production or safety critical part of the plant.
This ensures better prioritization and makes it easier to focus attention on the events that matter the most.
Easier to adapt to changes in the OT environment
OT environments are not static. Equipment is replaced, communication changes, and new connections are established. Therefore, the baseline must also be able to evolve.
In SNOK 1.19, the network baseline edition functionality has been improved reducing the need to reestablish the SNOK baseline through a new learning period after maintenance work or other changes. The baseline editions can later be restored if they should be included in the normal baseline again.
This makes it easier to maintain a relevant baseline over time—and reduces the effort needed to adjust monitoring when the OT environment changes.
Improved integration interfaces
In SNOK 1.19, the REST API has been expanded with new capabilities to retrieve and manage configuration information and manage the baseline. This allows partners to perform management tasks beyond receiving and managing security alarms and events in SNOK without manually logging in to the platform.
This is an area we will continue to prioritize moving forward, enabling our partners to carry out all periodic tasks in SNOK through the API.
More flexible alarm management
We have also made it easier to configure how SNOK assesses the severity of events.
A new panel makes setting up and changing advanced severity rules simpler and clearer. It is now also possible to create rules for single IP addresses.
Together with Security Impact Zones, this provides greater flexibility to adapt the monitoring to each specific OT environment and the organization's own priorities.

Use SNOK to harvest network captures
The SNOK Network Sensor can now be used to perform full network capture.
A new wizard helps the user configure the capture process. This makes it possible to extract more detailed network information when inspecting and analyzing the environment.
Easier to use. Better insight into OT.
SNOK 1.19 is not just about adding more features.
For us, product development is about making it easier to extract value from the information SNOK collects: a better overview of assets, more relevant detection, simpler administration, and better opportunities to share OT insights with the rest of the security organization.
This is also important when SNOK is to be used across multiple locations and included as part of larger security and deliveries from third party SOC service providers.
We therefore continue to develop SNOK in close cooperation with our customers and partners—with the goal of making OT monitoring easier to implement, use, and integrate.
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