A major provider of cyber security compliance solutions for critical infrastructure industries, Network Perception came out of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Research Park involving experts in network security and critical infrastructure protection. Describing themselves as protecting utilities by ensuring network access security as the first line of perimeter defense, the firm's monitoring software provides complete network transparency and continuous mapping to better support NERC-CIP compliance and enable greater cyber resiliency.The firm is structured around developing firewall analysis technology for critical infrastructures. Leveraging on expertise of the Founders in cyber security and NERC CIP audit and the NP-View mapping and path analysis technologies to review and compare the baseline configuration of the client's BES cyber systems against the actual access restrictions implemented by their firewall and router configuration files, the offered service provides documentation of the topology map of network; inventory of all cyber assets and object-groups defined in the configuration files of firewalls and routers; A risk analysis report of configuration files, highlighting unsafe access lists and firewall rules; complete spreadsheet of all network connections authorized in network; list and a visual representation of permitted communication flows that are not documented as being part of a BES baseline; remediation report to document recommended changes and best practices to ensure NERC CIP compliance
