Industrial CyberSecurity and W6
With W6 you are ready for NIS compliance with the assurance of industrial continuity
Through industrial cybersecurity, one can go so far as to protect the data and integrity of computing resources belonging to or connected to an organization's network.
Field buses are not natively structured to withstand attacks that until yesterday came from the Web and targeted only interconnected management-type systems with defenses such as proxies and firewalls.
Today, by connecting industrial data management and collection (IIoT) networks from fieldbuses, the risk is particularly increased, and the components of those networks are not natively protected, providing a gateway that can be easily attacked by hackers.
The purpose of Cyber Security systems is to defend these assets from all threat actors throughout the entire life cycle of a cyber attack.
W6, natively protected from the perspective of Cyber Security, forms a barrier to any attacks brought to industrial networks, and keeps the data entered into Cloud storage facilities protected, which are then used by artificial intelligence systems for advanced system management operations.
W6's Industrial Control System Security (ICS) focuses on ensuring the safety and operation of industrial control systems. This includes the hardware and software used by the system and its operators.
Industrial assets, whether products in processing or storage, or machines for manufacturing processes, play a crucial role. The growing presence of software within them and increased connectivity make them increasingly vulnerable to hostile or accidental security breaches.
With W6, operators and asset owners are able to protect them from risks such as unavailability, loss of integrity or loss of confidentiality, while ensuring efficiency in operations.
Security, reliability and availability are of paramount importance to industrial organizations.
These elements are now exposed to significant risk related to the explosion of connectivity of industrial OT systems (PLC, ICS SCADA). Every system, sensor, and network must be evaluated and protected from cyber attacks.
Embedding W6 in an industrial system network (e.g. Modbus, typical in the HVACR sector) allows to obtain those security benefits typically recommended (since 2016), by the NIS Directive (Dir. 2016/1148) of the European Union Parliament on the security of networks and information systems, converted in Italy by D.Lgs 65/2018. This legislation is accompanied by ENISA guidelines and the IEC 62443 standard.
With W6, industrial systems are typically ready for compliance audits against these regulations.
