IT-Enterprise at the 18th Baltic Business Forum: Experience in Industrial Safety and Cyber Resilience

The IT-Enterprise team participated in the 18th Baltic Business Forum (BBF), held in Świnoujście, Poland. This year’s event, under the slogan “Energy for Security,” brought together industry leaders, policymakers, and experts to discuss challenges facing Ukraine and Europe, strategic sovereignty, and the resilience of critical infrastructure.

As part of the forum, IT-Enterprise expert Alla Sorokina participated in the panel discussion “In the Network of Threats: Cybersecurity of Energy Infrastructure.” During the discussion, which also included representatives of the Polish Sejm and leading cybersecurity experts from NASK and ENGAVE, Alla Sorokina emphasized that protecting energy facilities now goes far beyond standard IT solutions. Today, any cyberattack on a server can escalate into a physical incident within minutes.

“We must accept a new reality: a cyber threat is a direct threat to energy continuity. If equipment is invisible to digital monitoring systems, it becomes the most vulnerable point. Equipment failures requiring maintenance often occur precisely during external impacts,” said Alla Sorokina, Project Manager at IT-Enterprise.

During her speech, she highlighted how the nature of threats is changing. In particular, she referred to the incident at Norway’s Risevatnet dam in April 2025, where hackers remotely opened water discharge valves, resulting in the loss of millions of liters of water. One of the key conclusions after the attack was the implementation of anomaly monitoring systems — IT solutions capable of detecting unusual equipment behavior in real time and blocking commands until confirmed by an operator.

According to the IT-Enterprise expert, the foundation of modern cybersecurity includes:

• Full asset visibility: monitoring every production node within IT systems.
• Process transparency: real-time digital monitoring of production processes.
• Predictability: using data to identify anomalies before they become critical through EAM systems, AI assistants, and related tools.
• Security by Design: integrating security protocols at the industrial system design stage.

IT-Enterprise’s experience in implementing digital transformation projects for major industrial and agricultural companies such as NIBULON, which is introducing data-driven management, and INTERPIPE, which migrated all its global assets to the new IT-Enterprise X10 platform for real-time management, confirms that digital transparency and the creation of a unified digital information environment are key factors in adapting industry to modern risks, especially under Ukrainian conditions.

The Baltic Business Forum emphasized that sharing experience related to real cyber threats facing the world is critically important for building collective digital security. The development of energy resilience solutions extends far beyond technology itself. It carries a broader meaning — ensuring the stability of people’s lives and supporting economic development through adaptation to new challenges.

IT-Enterprise is a Ukrainian product IT company with more than 35 years of experience supporting the digital transformation of the country’s largest industrial enterprises. Its clients include Interpipe, Ferrexpo, Nibulon, Ukrposhta, Ukrnafta, Ukrzaliznytsia, and others. Since the first days of the full-scale war, the IT-Enterprise team, together with government authorities, has been implementing critical national projects, including humanitarian aid accounting, procurement recovery initiatives, and business relocation support. Co-founder and CEO Oleg Shcherbatenko is a strong advocate of Industry 4.0 and 5.0 approaches and technologies.