Rockwell Automation launches industrial security initiative 09 August 2013

Rockwell Automation has launched an initiative aimed at helping manufacturers to reduce cyber-security risks to their control systems.

Sujeet Chand, senior vice president and chief technology officer at Rockwell Automation, explains that it's about a combination of control system design, best practice, contemporary technologies and professional services from Rockwell and partners such as networking specialist Cisco.

"The rapidly evolving nature of the industrial security landscape makes it critical that today's manufacturers view security as an ongoing business imperative, rather than a one-time investment event," insists Chand.

"A more secure network infrastructure will allow manufacturers to deploy contemporary technologies and emerging solutions, like mobility, virtualisation and cloud computing, while still performing mission-critical automation functions," he continues.

The three-pronged Rockwell Automation initiative includes a defence-in-depth methodology, secure automation architecture approach and so-called enterprise-ready industrial security solutions.

Chand says that Rockwell's industrial security initiative is essentially based on a multilayer network design approach that combines resiliency in the infrastructure with security-enabled, end-point devices. Core to the initiative is implementation of a secure network infrastructure based on the use of the standard Internet Protocol.

Brian Tinham

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