Physical Security for Energy & Utilities

Oil & Gas operators and Power Utilities face increasing physical and cyber security threats to their mission-critical infrastructures. Disruption to these customers’ operations, whether through security breaches or other means, have very high economic/financial impacts, high political visibility, and risk to safety of citizens and employees.

The Alcatel-Lucent Physical Security for Energy & Utilities solution comprises Perimeter Intrusion Detection, Access Control, Video Surveillance, Public Address/General Alarm (PA/GA) and Hotline systems to help protect our customers from security breaches, theft and vandalism, and to respond effectively when faced with violations.

Alcatel-Lucent offers a comprehensive, end-to-end physical security solution that protects critical infrastructure and keeps operations running— 24/7. We are a single point of accountability for our customers, delivering best-of-breed solutions through a vendor-agnostic approach. Completely turnkey and fully end-to-end, Alcatel-Lucent’s Physical Security for Energy and Utilities solution produces superior, highly effective results while keeping costs down for customers.

Economic Benefits

Comply with regulatory requirements (e.g., NERC CIP (US) thereby avoiding potentially hefty fines

• Assess existing Physical Security situation against regulatory requirements
• Produce a reference architecture and solution blueprint to comply with these requirements

Reduce risk of financial losses of theft and vandalism

Reduce risk of major economic losses from service disruptions to electricity supply or oil & gas transport / production

Deployment, Management, End user Benefits

Protect critical infrastructure

• Enables “365x24x7 non-stop operations”
• Deter security breaches, vandalism and theft of property
• Delay progress of breaches to buy time for response
• Detect and respond with minimum delay to contain loss
• Capture and store images for evidential and prosecution purposes

Improve Effectiveness & Efficiency of Security Operations

• Ensure visual oversight of critical production facilities
• Provide emergency evacuation alarms
• Introduce Intelligent Video Analysis to automatically detect probable security incidents
• Deploy an integrated Security Management system for effective user interactions and integrated response to incidents

Manage complexity and reduce risk

• Single point of contact with end-to-end accountability for the design and integration of the total solution