Case Study: a oil and gas company protects cellular assets and cuts data costs with MobilSense MobilSentry

How this oil & gas company protects its cellular assets from hackers

An oil and gas company faced a major security crisis when its pipeline routers, which used public static IP addresses, were discovered by hackers. This led to devastating DDOS attacks that caused data usage to surge from 50MB to 50GB per month per device. The company turned to MobilSense and its MobilSentry platform for a solution to protect its cellular assets.

MobilSense implemented its MobilSentry solution, which assigned private IP addresses and utilized a whitelisting capability to restrict router communication to a finite set of authorized IP addresses. This prevented any malicious access. As a result, the oil and gas company gained real-time analytics and alerts for data usage, leading to significantly reduced data costs and substantially improved security measures.