Identity Security from Upstream to Downstream

Your operations depend on the right people having the right access to critical infrastructure. This includes refineries, pipelines, control systems, and remote sites. But most identity security access control approaches were not designed for your environments. The result? Orphaned accounts, shared passwords, excessive and uncontrolled permissions, manual processes that create risk, and no clear visibility into who has access to what—creating silent but significant exposure.

Incidents like Colonial Pipeline prove the risk and cost. A single compromised credential; led to operational shutdown, $4.4M in ransom, and ongoing reputational damage.

Every day, this challenge has become more urgent. Increased geopolitical tension, heightened regulatory scrutiny, and a growing reliance on contractors and third parties have materially raised the stakes for access-related failures in oil and gas operations. At the same time, operational teams are being asked to do more with fewer resources, making manual or informal access control practices increasingly risky. Access control is no longer a background security concern. It is now directly tied to operational resilience, safety, and executive accountability.

Junto delivers access control that works in the environments where oil and gas operations actually happen. It works across both IT and OT — from corporate IT systems to OT assets such as SCADA, ICS, DCS, and safety systems – in remote and disconnected locations, and with legacy infrastructure without disrupting your operations or requiring extensive infrastructure changes. Junto ensures the right people have the right access at the right time — whether they are operators on shift, offline, or working for a third-party contractor or vendor.

Before Junto:

• Shared passwords
• Orphaned accounts
• Excessive privileges
• Manual, error-prone provisioning
• Inconsistent access control policies across sites
• Blind spots in OT access
• Security compromises because tools do not fit the environment

After Junto:

• Individual accountability across IT and OT
• Automated provisioning and deprovisioning
• Unified, policy driven access control
• Full visibility into all access
• Operations that do not compromise on security regardless of environment

Operational Outcomes:

• Reduced downtime
• Faster and more accurate onboarding and offboarding
• Fewer manual processes
• Lower safety risk

Security Outcomes:

• Fewer shared credentials
• Reduced insider and third-party risk
• Full audit trails
• Improved resilience against ransomware and OT attacks

Compliance Outcomes:

• Audit-ready access logs
• Consistent enforcement of access policies
• Support for standards such as NERC CIP, IEC 62443, and APT 1164

Exploration

Constantly changing personnel on offshore rigs and remote drilling operations introduces elevated risk and operational challenges. Junto ties access to workforce data so permissions automatically adjust as personnel rotate. Shared credentials on OT systems are eliminated. Access policies stay consistent across corporate and remote sites.

Pipelines

Distributed operations with heavy reliance on third-party contractors for maintenance

and inspection make access control difficult. Junto eliminates broad VPN access and provides just-in-time permissions scoped to specific pipeline segments. Access control works even when connectivity to remote monitoring stations is lost.

Refining

High employee turnover, rotating shifts, and safety-critical systems that cannot tolerate

Junto Identity is an access control solution purpose-built for complex environments like oil and gas. This including pipelines, refineries, terminals, and remote field operations where traditional IT-centric security tools fall short.

Junto unifies access control across your entire environment. This includes corporate IT systems, legacy OT and SCADA, and remote disconnected sites. We layer modern access control onto your existing infrastructure without re-architecting systems or requiring downtime.

Contractor, Integrator, and OEM Access

Oli and gas operations rely heavily on third parties: system integrators, OEMs, maintenance contractors, and field engineers. They need access to OT assets such as SCADA, ICS, DCS, and safety systems. Traditional approaches grant broad permissions because granular access control is too difficult to manage. Access is provisioned manually and rarely removed on time. The result is excessive permissions, orphaned accounts, and limited accountability and visibility.

With Junto, Access is provisioned just-in-time and scoped to specific assets and time periods. It is automatically removed when projects end. No more orphaned accounts or excessive permissions.

Security for Field Operations and Remote Facilities

Your sites span vast geographic areas with unreliable connectivity. Offshore platforms, remote pipelines, and exploration sites cannot depend on consistent connectivity to centralized security systems. Manual processes try to keep corporate and remote access policies aligned. They never quite succeed. This creates security gaps and operational inefficiencies.

Junto ensures consistent and granular access control for all facilities including oilfields, rigs, and pipelines that may have unreliable connectivity and harsh conditions. It easily extends those controls to SCADA and ICS devices and DCS and safety systems including delegation of permissions and emergency “break glass” access.

Access Control for OT and SCADA Systems

Most OT/SCADA systems use hard-coded, default/shared credentials with superuser permissions, which makes Zero Trust and Least Privilege access extremely difficult. Natively managing these credentials to satisfy security and compliance demands is a cumbersome, manual, and error-prone process. The result is often lapses in security, increased risk, and OT administrators being forced to cut corners and “just get by” to avoid downtime and disruption of business continuity.

Junto eliminate shared superuser accounts and replace them with individual accounts where possible. Multi-factor authentication is layered onto systems that do not natively support it. Access policies are enforced without requiring system downtime.

Junto makes it possible to consistently implement the appropriate access controls, separation of duties, and reporting requirements that Oil & Gas companies must comply with to satisfy regulations such as the TSA Pipeline Security Directives and PHMSA/DOT requirements. This includes difficult use cases such as pipelines and upstream facilities, OT/ICS/SCADA systems, and contractor, third-party vendor, and shift worker user types. Junto also facilities compliance with regulatory and security frameworks such as NIST and IEC.

Junto provides all the controls, orchestration, and visibility necessary to achieve these objectives including:

• Documented access control policy
• Least privilege and Zero Trust
• Formal onboarding/offboarding
• Timely revocation of access
• Strong authentication for remote and privileged users
• Logical separation between IT and OT
• Access control for privileged accounts
• Periodic attestation/recertification
• Strictly controlled third-party access to OT