The Sinec Security Inspector is a software framework for active one-time scanning that allows individual network devices, network segments or the entire network infrastructure to be scanned during maintenance time windows.
Michael Metzler, vice president horizontal management cybersecurity for digital industries at Siemens, said: “Siemens Sinec Security Inspector brings a unique enhanced testing solution to the shopfloor and enables customers to check their entire IT/OT environment including all individual components. Customers can promptly discover risks and potential hazards which puts them in a position to swiftly mitigate cyber vulnerabilities. This results in an enormously reduced effort when inspecting industrial networks.”
The Sinec Security Inspector is said to address several challenges that manufacturers face in terms of network security in their plants: asset identification and detection, compliance checks, malware scans and vulnerability checks.
It has been designed as an open framework. Besides offering security tools developed by Siemens, it also contains tools for vulnerability management provided by the cybersecurity company Tenable. Additionally, more third-party testing tools will be added to cover more test cases in the future.
“With industrial companies transforming into digital enterprises, the importance of cybersecurity has grown tremendously in the last years”, Metzler added. “As a reaction, the Sinec Security Inspector was initially developed to scan our own factories for vulnerabilities in networks. After years of testing and improving this tool, it is now just right for protecting any industrial and manufacturing environment.”