--- title: "Defend From Within - Red Balloon Security" description: "CONTACT US DEFEND FROM WITHIN Secure firmware is the core of secure systems. Give your customers the defense they demand, even when perimeter defenses fail. EXPLORE OUR INDUSTRY SOLUTIONS Red Balloon Security provides embedded security for critical infrastructure throughout ICS, BMS, energy, automotive, and aerospace systems for commercial and government enterprises. 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Give your customers the defense they demand, even when perimeter defenses fail. ## EXPLORE OUR INDUSTRY SOLUTIONS Red Balloon Security provides embedded security for critical infrastructure throughout ICS, BMS, energy, automotive, and aerospace systems for commercial and government enterprises. ## DEFENSE & AEROSPACE ## INDUSTRIAL & BMS ## ELECTRICAL GRID ## AUTOMOTIVE ## EXPLORE OUR INDUSTRY SOLUTIONS Red Balloon Security provides embedded security for critical infrastructure throughout ICS, BMS, energy, automotive, and aerospace systems for commercial and government enterprises. ## DEFENSE & AEROSPACE ## INDUSTRIAL & BMS ## ELECTRICAL GRID ## AUTOMOTIVE ## EXPLORE OUR INDUSTRY SOLUTIONS Red Balloon Security provides embedded security for critical infrastructure throughout ICS, BMS, energy, automotive, and aerospace systems for commercial and government enterprises. ## DEFENSE & AEROSPACE ## INDUSTRIAL & BMS ## ELECTRICAL GRID ## AUTOMOTIVE ## END THE PATCHING RAT RACE - Deliver continuous security without burdening your developers and customers with a stream of urgent patches. - Keep authorized software running on the devices while preventing exploits. ![End the patching rat race](https://xckd6kzuxte054o.onstatic.studio/wp-content/uploads/End-The-Patching-Rat-Race@2x-1024x577.jpg) ## END THE PATCHING RAT RACE ![End the patching rat race](https://xckd6kzuxte054o.onstatic.studio/wp-content/uploads/End-The-Patching-Rat-Race@2x-1024x577.jpg) - Deliver continuous security without burdening your developers and customers with a stream of urgent patches. - Keep authorized software running on the devices while preventing exploits. ## END THE PATCHING RAT RACE ![End the patching rat race](https://xckd6kzuxte054o.onstatic.studio/wp-content/uploads/End-The-Patching-Rat-Race@2x-1024x577.jpg) - Deliver continuous security without burdening your developers and customers with a stream of urgent patches. - Keep authorized software running on the devices while preventing exploits. ![Elevate the security standard](https://xckd6kzuxte054o.onstatic.studio/wp-content/uploads/Elevate-The-Security-Standard@2x-1024x577.jpg) ## ELEVATE THE SECURITY STANDARD - Turn cybersecurity into a marketing edge by deploying the devices that can defend themselves. - Defend your reputation after the sale. - Insulate the critical devices that define your business from third-party dependencies, incomplete regulatory guidance and gaps in perimeter defenses. ## ELEVATE THE SECURITY STANDARD ![Elevate the security standard](https://xckd6kzuxte054o.onstatic.studio/wp-content/uploads/Elevate-The-Security-Standard@2x-1024x577.jpg) - Turn cybersecurity into a marketing edge by deploying the devices that can defend themselves. - Defend your reputation after the sale. - Insulate the critical devices that define your business from third-party dependencies, incomplete regulatory guidance and gaps in perimeter defenses. ## ELEVATE THE SECURITY STANDARD ![Elevate the security standard](https://xckd6kzuxte054o.onstatic.studio/wp-content/uploads/Elevate-The-Security-Standard@2x-1024x577.jpg) - Turn cybersecurity into a marketing edge by deploying the devices that can defend themselves. - Defend your reputation after the sale. - Insulate the critical devices that define your business from third-party dependencies, incomplete regulatory guidance and gaps in perimeter defenses. ## DEFEND WITH SPEED AND CERTAINTY - By protecting and monitoring devices in real time, Red Balloon delivers zero false positives and enables accurate response, not guesswork, when it’s most vital. It’s device security brought up to speed. - Eliminate the blindspot of embedded device security, and know the moment a threat emerges with the clearest view of all device layers, from hardware to the application. ![Defend with speed and certainty](https://xckd6kzuxte054o.onstatic.studio/wp-content/uploads/Defend-With-Speed-And-Certainty@2x-1024x577.jpg) ## DEFEND WITH SPEED AND CERTAINTY ![Defend with speed and certainty](https://xckd6kzuxte054o.onstatic.studio/wp-content/uploads/Defend-With-Speed-And-Certainty@2x-1024x577.jpg) - By protecting and monitoring devices in real time, Red Balloon delivers zero false positives and enables accurate response, not guesswork, when it’s most vital. It’s device security brought up to speed. - Eliminate the blindspot of embedded device security, and know the moment a threat emerges with the clearest view of all device layers, from hardware to the application. ## DEFEND WITH SPEED AND CERTAINTY ![Defend with speed and certainty](https://xckd6kzuxte054o.onstatic.studio/wp-content/uploads/Defend-With-Speed-And-Certainty@2x-1024x577.jpg) - By protecting and monitoring devices in real time, Red Balloon delivers zero false positives and enables accurate response, not guesswork, when it’s most vital. It’s device security brought up to speed. - Eliminate the blindspot of embedded device security, and know the moment a threat emerges with the clearest view of all device layers, from hardware to the application. ## CASE STUDIES Find out how Red Balloon technology helped to elevate the customer’s security standard and reputation. ![Hewlett-Packard case study](https://xckd6kzuxte054o.onstatic.studio/wp-content/uploads/Case-Study-HP@2x-1024x897.jpg) ## HP ENTERPRISE PRINTERS The Challenge: Enable the world’s most secure printers by providing host-based run-time intrusion detection and firmware integrity validation. The Results: Red Balloon’s Runtime Monitoring Solution delivered: - More than 80 billion hours of continuous runtime without security failure. - More than 4 million total protected devices. - Protection provided without any disruption of normal endpoint operation. [ Read the Case Study ](https://xckd6kzuxte054o.onstatic.studio/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/HP.pdf) ## DARPA RADICS PROGRAM The Challenge: Bolster the security and rapid recovery capabilities of the electrical grid – even while cyber attackers are trying to prevent service restoration. The Results: Red Balloon provided embedded defense, which: - Enhanced situation awareness, allowing operators to understand the state of a grid’s embedded devices before, during, and after a cyberattack. - Improved ability to identify grid cyberattacks and counteract specific attack elements and methods through deployment of Symbiote technology on communications equipment and other essential grid devices. - Played a key role on the blue team in a red vs. blue simulation, and demonstrated the effectiveness and responsiveness of deployments bolstered by Symbiote technology. [ Read the Case Study ](https://xckd6kzuxte054o.onstatic.studio/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/RADICS.pdf) ![DARPA case study](https://xckd6kzuxte054o.onstatic.studio/wp-content/uploads/Case-Study-DARPA@2x-1024x854.jpg) ![Plum Island case study](https://xckd6kzuxte054o.onstatic.studio/wp-content/uploads/Case-Study-Plum-Island@2x-1024x854.jpg) ## SBIR PHASE III CONTRACT, PIADC (PLUM ISLAND ANIMAL DISEASE CENTER) The Challenge: Develop new technology to bolster the cybersecurity defenses of complex building controllers and automation systems. The Results: Red Balloon’s Symbiote technology strengthened BMS and ICS at the device level. - Red Balloon’s Symbiote technology worked in conjunction with a major BMS/industrial control system vendor. - Vendor was able to integrate alerts with their existing HMI system across multiple devices. - Red Balloon’s Symbiote Embedded Defense is designed to detect and respond to attacks on building management systems that leveraged malware, ransomware and other malicious code or commands. [ Read the Case Study ](https://xckd6kzuxte054o.onstatic.studio/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/PIADC.pdf) ## CASE STUDIES Find out how Red Balloon technology helped to elevate the customer’s security standard and reputation. ![Hewlett-Packard case study](https://xckd6kzuxte054o.onstatic.studio/wp-content/uploads/Case-Study-HP@2x.jpg) ## HP ENTERPRISE PRINTERS The Challenge: Enable the world’s most secure printers by providing host-based run-time intrusion detection and firmware integrity validation. The Results: Red Balloon’s Runtime Monitoring Solution delivered: - More than 80 billion hours of continuous runtime without security failure. - More than 4 million total protected devices. - Protection provided without any disruption of normal endpoint operation. [ Read the Case Study ](https://xckd6kzuxte054o.onstatic.studio/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/HP.pdf) ![DARPA case study](https://xckd6kzuxte054o.onstatic.studio/wp-content/uploads/Case-Study-DARPA@2x.jpg) ## DARPA RADICS PROGRAM The Challenge: Bolster the security and rapid recovery capabilities of the electrical grid – even while cyber attackers are trying to prevent service restoration. The Results: Red Balloon provided embedded defense, which: - Enhanced situation awareness, allowing operators to understand the state of a grid’s embedded devices before, during, and after a cyberattack. - Improved ability to identify grid cyberattacks and counteract specific attack elements and methods through deployment of Symbiote technology on communications equipment and other essential grid devices. - Played a key role on the blue team in a red vs. blue simulation, and demonstrated the effectiveness and responsiveness of deployments bolstered by Symbiote technology. [ Read the Case Study ](https://xckd6kzuxte054o.onstatic.studio/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/RADICS.pdf) ![Plum Island case study](https://xckd6kzuxte054o.onstatic.studio/wp-content/uploads/Case-Study-Plum-Island@2x.jpg) ## SBIR PHASE III CONTRACT, PIADC (PLUM ISLAND ANIMAL DISEASE CENTER) The Challenge: Develop new technology to bolster the cybersecurity defenses of complex building controllers and automation systems. The Results: Red Balloon’s Symbiote technology strengthened BMS and ICS at the device level. - Red Balloon’s Symbiote technology worked in conjunction with a major BMS/industrial control system vendor. - Vendor was able to integrate alerts with their existing HMI system across multiple devices. - Red Balloon’s Symbiote Embedded Defense is designed to detect and respond to attacks on building management systems that leveraged malware, ransomware and other malicious code or commands. [ Read the Case Study ](https://xckd6kzuxte054o.onstatic.studio/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/PIADC.pdf) ## CASE STUDIES Find out how Red Balloon technology helped to elevate the customer’s security standard and reputation. ![Hewlett-Packard case study](https://xckd6kzuxte054o.onstatic.studio/wp-content/uploads/Case-Study-HP@2x-300x263.jpg) ## HP ENTERPRISE PRINTERS The Challenge: Enable the world’s most secure printers by providing host-based run-time intrusion detection and firmware integrity validation. The Results: Red Balloon’s Runtime Monitoring Solution delivered: - More than 80 billion hours of continuous runtime without security failure. - More than 4 million total protected devices. - Protection provided without any disruption of normal endpoint operation. [ Read the Case Study ](https://xckd6kzuxte054o.onstatic.studio/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/HP.pdf) ![DARPA case study](https://xckd6kzuxte054o.onstatic.studio/wp-content/uploads/Case-Study-DARPA@2x-300x250.jpg) ## DARPA RADICS PROGRAM The Challenge: Bolster the security and rapid recovery capabilities of the electrical grid – even while cyber attackers are trying to prevent service restoration. The Results: Red Balloon provided embedded defense, which: - Enhanced situation awareness, allowing operators to understand the state of a grid’s embedded devices before, during, and after a cyberattack. - Improved ability to identify grid cyberattacks and counteract specific attack elements and methods through deployment of Symbiote technology on communications equipment and other essential grid devices. - Played a key role on the blue team in a red vs. blue simulation, and demonstrated the effectiveness and responsiveness of deployments bolstered by Symbiote technology. [ Read the Case Study ](https://xckd6kzuxte054o.onstatic.studio/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/RADICS.pdf) ![Plum Island case study](https://xckd6kzuxte054o.onstatic.studio/wp-content/uploads/Case-Study-Plum-Island@2x-300x250.jpg) ## SBIR PHASE III CONTRACT, PIADC (PLUM ISLAND ANIMAL DISEASE CENTER) The Challenge: Develop new technology to bolster the cybersecurity defenses of complex building controllers and automation systems. The Results: Red Balloon’s Symbiote technology strengthened BMS and ICS at the device level. - Red Balloon’s Symbiote technology worked in conjunction with a major BMS/industrial control system vendor. - Vendor was able to integrate alerts with their existing HMI system across multiple devices. - Red Balloon’s Symbiote Embedded Defense is designed to detect and respond to attacks on building management systems that leveraged malware, ransomware and other malicious code or commands. [ Read the Case Study ](https://xckd6kzuxte054o.onstatic.studio/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/PIADC.pdf) ## DEPLOYMENTS AND VERIFIED COMPATIBILITY ![Hewlett-Packard logo](https://xckd6kzuxte054o.onstatic.studio/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/hp.png) ![Siemens logo](https://xckd6kzuxte054o.onstatic.studio/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/siemens2.png) ![Rockwell Automation logo](https://xckd6kzuxte054o.onstatic.studio/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/rockwell.png) ![Cisco logo](https://xckd6kzuxte054o.onstatic.studio/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/cisco.png) ![Bosch logo](https://xckd6kzuxte054o.onstatic.studio/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/bosch.png) ![Aptiv logo](https://xckd6kzuxte054o.onstatic.studio/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/aptiv.png) ![DENSO logo](https://xckd6kzuxte054o.onstatic.studio/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/denso.png) ## DEPLOYMENTS AND VERIFIED COMPATIBILITY ![Hewlett-Packard logo](https://xckd6kzuxte054o.onstatic.studio/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/hp.png) ![Siemens logo](https://xckd6kzuxte054o.onstatic.studio/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/siemens2.png) ![Rockwell Automation logo](https://xckd6kzuxte054o.onstatic.studio/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/rockwell.png) ![Cisco logo](https://xckd6kzuxte054o.onstatic.studio/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/cisco.png) ![Bosch logo](https://xckd6kzuxte054o.onstatic.studio/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/bosch.png) ![Aptiv logo](https://xckd6kzuxte054o.onstatic.studio/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/aptiv.png) ![DENSO logo](https://xckd6kzuxte054o.onstatic.studio/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/denso.png) ## DEPLOYMENTS AND VERIFIED COMPATIBILITY ## PRODUCTS OVERVIEW Extend the depth of your defense – and bring embedded security to the end device level. 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