Industrial Cybersecurity - Pharma & Biotech Solutions
 
Request a Demo
Claroty Toggle Search

Securing Pharmaceutical & Biotech Manufacturing

Powered by Claroty Claire™, the industry's first CPS-native AI agent, the Claroty Platform hardens plant operations against cyber threats. Get deep visibility across mixing, cooling, packaging, and API production to unify security, protect high-value IP, and eliminate downtime.

The Challenge: Balancing Digitization with Quality and Regulatory Pressures

As digital transformation replaces once-manual, error-prone tasks with automation systems production efficiency and safety increases. However, AI-driven threats, compliance mandates, and the integration of cyber-physical systems (CPS) grow in parallel. Because operations still depend on outdated, unpatchable OT infrastructure facilities have become high-value targets for ransomware and state-sponsored IP theft. Contending with these business pressures includes the following critical life sciences challenges:

  • Outdated OT cannot be easily patched or replaced without immense cost and downtime. 

  • Targeted attacks endanger critical BMR data, vaccine formulas, and research. 

  • High acquisition activity creates fragmented networks and uneven security maturities.

  • Evolving mandates (NIS2, SOCI, CISA CPGs) demand rigid operational oversight.

  • Generic AI risks plant downtime by recommending standard IT fixes for sensitive hardware.

Interactive Demo: xDome for Pharma

In this guided session, you'll discover how xDome provides comprehensive visibility and business context for all cyber-physical systems in your connected building environment.

Take a Tour of xDome

Protecting the Pharmaceutical and Biotech Ecosystem with Claroty

By safeguarding the cyber-physical systems that keep life-saving operations running continuously, Claroty delivers unmatched visibility across automated laboratory lines, cold chains, and state-of-the-art packaging environments.

Drive Cyber & Operational Resilience Enterprise-Wide

  • Unify Security Governance & Plant Automation Teams: Establish clear, standardized risk metrics and communication workflows between your SOC and plant floor engineers to accelerate incident response without risking patient safety or batch quality. Claroty’s embedded AI acts as a single source of operational truth, translating complex technical alerts into safe, optimized plant workflows.

  • Isolate Critical Environments: Separate high-value biochemical processing zones and packaging lines from common corporate IT networks to mathematically block a ransomware breach from moving laterally. Claroty accelerates network defense using AI-powered asset zones and policy groups to enable virtual segmentation.

  • Mitigate Unknown Operational Risks: Rapidly profile all CPS devices and automated logic loops to eliminate technical blind spots, safeguard batch consistency, and uncover active exposures before they manifest as costly plant shutdowns.

Claroty xDome: Protecting Uptime

Gain Complete CPS Visibility with Claroty

Maximize Operational Efficiency

  • Disruption-free Asset Discovery: Map every OT, IoT, and BMS asset across multiple globally distributed facilities without shipping hardware appliances, deploying local software, or scheduling intrusive maintenance windows. Claroty’s AI-driven discovery leverages the industry’s first CPS Library, resolving imprecise, conflicting, or hidden device signatures.

  • Purpose-Built Remote Access: Eliminate risky third-party vendor VPNs with a Zero Trust remote access solution engineered specifically for industrial personnel, enabling secure, real-time, time-bound, and fully audited maintenance interactions.

  • Compensating Controls for Legacy Cleanrooms: Extend the life of aging, unpatchable laboratory and manufacturing systems by surrounding them with precise network monitoring and strict, automated zone-based validation. Claroty maps device profiles and automatically surfaces AI-driven recommendations to reduce risk.

Ensure Safety, Compliance, and Governance

  • Automated Audit Packs: Map facility-level OT and IoT configurations directly to international standards such as ISA/IEC 62443, NIS2, and the NIST CSF to generate audit-ready reporting templates in minutes.

  • Strict Batch and Cold Chain Protection: Implement continuous monitoring of environmental ambient sensors, computerized blending loops, and connected climate systems to satisfy Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and eliminate inventory spoilage.

  • Board-Ready Business Metrics: Translate complex CPS vulnerabilities into clear, context-rich risk scores, giving executive leadership the financial justification needed to back critical plant security investments. Claroty enables AI-powered natural-language dashboard and report building, equipping plant managers with clear metrics.

Meet Claire™: The Industry’s First CPS-Native AI Agent

  • Domain-Specific AI: Trained on over a decade of CPS data and Team82 research, Claire thinks in operational terms and understands physical process context.

  • Context over Noise: Eliminates alert fatigue by answering "What should I do next?" with prioritized, high-precision recommendations.

  • Human-in-the-Loop Safeguards: Engineered specifically for fragile industrial environments, Claire ensures safe remediation actions that never induce unplanned downtime.

What Customers Say

“We needed an OT tool that complements Claroty CTD’s real-time monitoring to reveal the unreachable blind spots in Pfizer’s main manufacturing environments. With Claroty Edge, we attained this faster than ever imagined.”

Jim LaBonty
Head of Global Automation Engineering at Pfizer

FAQ

Pharmaceutical CPS security involves protecting the operational networks and connected machinery that drive modern drug discovery, biochemical manufacturing, and distribution. This extends past generic IT environments to shield specialized assets, including automated laboratory lines, active ingredient synthesis mixers, clean-in-place (CIP) loops, chemical room ambient air sensors, conveyor sortation systems, and industrial chillers.

In a highly digitalized plant, corporate networks are inextricably connected to shop floor environments. Cyberattackers frequently exploit unmonitored third-party connections or social engineering vectors to penetrate the industrial perimeter. Once inside, malware can transfer laterally to alter PLC configurations or alter sensor readouts, resulting in contaminated batches, mass inventory loss, or systemic global medicine shortages.

Claroty utilizes flexible, SaaS-driven discovery models integrated into your existing network infrastructure and configuration management databases (CMDB). This completely bypasses the need to ship heavy physical equipment or plan intrusive plant downtime, providing a unified, real-time inventory of newly acquired digital assets across multi-plant environments within hours of deployment.

Yes. Replacing highly validated, legacy laboratory assets simply because they cannot support modern patches is prohibitively expensive and causes catastrophic operational disruptions. Claroty changes the paradigm by utilizing precise network segmentation and virtual baseline simulation, neutralizing active cyber threats natively on the wire without necessitating direct device overhauls.

As global regulatory bodies classify food logistics and medicine distribution networks as critical infrastructure, organizations are legally mandated to demonstrate strict cyber oversight. Claroty automatically monitors, logs, and maps your facility-level OT and CPS device behaviors directly against regional compliance standards like the NIS2 Directive, the SOCI Act, and the NIST CSF, generating dynamic, audit-ready data packets automatically.

Claroty Demo

Ready to Secure Your CPS Environment?

Claroty
LinkedIn Twitter YouTube Facebook