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Eesti Energia AS A S tate - owned I nternational E nergy C ompany . Outline. Outline Company P rofile Services P rovided Assets System Schema Risk Categories Technical R isks and M itigation Summary. Eesti Energia Profile.
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Outline Outline • Company Profile • Services Provided • Assets • System Schema • Risk Categories • Technical Risks and Mitigation • Summary
EestiEnergiaProfile • Operates in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, Jordan • Largest employer in Estonia with over 7500 employees • ~470 000 private customers • ~26 000 business customers • Total revenue of 796 million Euros in FY 2010 • Most preferred employer in Estonia • Second-best customer service in Estonia • Bonds listed on the London Stock Exchange
Services • Eesti Energia offers comprehensive energy solutions including: • Electricity • heat and fuel • customer service and consulting ENERGY SERVICES PRODUCTION&TECHNOLOGY RESIDENTIAL BUSINESS ELECTRIC, HEAT OIL, TECHNOLOGY
Mission&Vision • The vision of EestiEnergia is to sell energy to two million customers in the Baltic Sea Region by 2015. • The mission of EestiEnergia is to devote all of their energy for the good of the people.
Assets • Internal service hardware • Internal service software • Backup and restore system • Firewalls and VPN tunnels systems • Monitoring systems • Datacenter physical • Datacenter power • Web access to self service systems • Accounting systems • Internal technical knowledge • Interdepartment processes
Threats • Physical accidents • Employee configuration errors • Customer configuration errors • Internal malicious actions • External malicious actions • Customer malicious actions • Missing or untested procedures • Interdepartment cross training • Software limitation • Political environment
Risk Categories • Data Center Incidents • Data safety and accessibility • Software exploit • Risks connected with software • Network problems • Computer network incidents • Human factor • We are not machines
Data Center Incidents • Description: • A system cannot work without databases. All information, finance reports, billing reports, and settings are stored in database. Risks: • Unauthorized access • Data loss • Server overwhelmed, insufficient server performance. Measures taken to prevent incidents: • Increase overall database security. • Backups are stored separately in several places geographically. • Database servers are configured for appropriate workload.
Software Exploits Description: Company tries to protect its IT property especially system, software and technology secrets. Information system is also company’s private property. Risk: • Software bugscan be discoveredand exploited rapidly. • Softwarearchitecture cannot keep up to speed with the changing world. • New features would bring new problems, change is risky. Measures: • Design good software architecture from the beginning. • Overall workflow monitoring • Fast response to software security incidents.
Network Problems • Description: • External and internal network security, integrity, data confidentiality are vital to company operations. Network safety and availability are the most important. • Risks: • Unauthorized network penetration and anti service attacks. • Disrupted connections. • Possible leak of sensitive information due weak network defence. • Measures: • Hardware: firewall, intrusion detection system, intrusion prevention system, monitoring system with notifications. • Software firewall on client machines and network flow monitoring. • Strict domain policy.
Human Factors • Description:Our organization is concerned that at any time any of its employee could make a mistake. They cannot control the actions of all employees at all times. • Risks: • Loss of unsaved information. • A spilled cup of coffee. • Security accounts exchanging between employees . • Measures: • Ensure that corporate rules and procedures are followed. • Enhance and optimize work processes. • Personnel must cooperate with policy. • Build up politics of loyalty in company culture.
Summary Summary • Risk assurance is a fundamental concern to All organizations! • Eesti Energia is not an exception.