As producers digitize operations, they’re connecting extra industrial property and utilizing extra software program to run their factories. A dependable, environment friendly community on the plant flooring is crucial. So is efficient safety to forestall cyberattacks that might disrupt manufacturing and trigger vital income loss and/or main security hazards. As Dino Busalachi, cofounder and CTO of Velta Technology, explains, “In the IT world, having a blip in the network [is] no big deal. But on the plant floor, you might shut down a million-dollar piece of equipment.”
Traditionally, industrial networks have been constructed and managed by the road of enterprise. But demand for extra IT applied sciences, larger efficiency, and larger scalability, together with the rise of cyberthreats, is difficult the standard method. That’s as a result of operations groups are specialists in constructing complicated industrial processes and working operational applied sciences (OT), however they usually lack the expertise of recent IT networking and safety capabilities. Similarly, IT groups have trendy networking and safety experience however usually little information of the machines on the manufacturing unit flooring.
Building on over 20 years of expertise serving to industrial organizations digitize their operations, Cisco and its companions are serving to to bridge that hole. In North America, for example, Velta Technology is making the most of Cisco industrial safety options to assist producers and their methods integrators to design safe industrial networks from the beginning.
Together with OT methods integrators and panel builders corresponding to Barry-Wehmiller Design Group, Cisco and Velta Technology can facilitate productive conversations between IT and operations groups. With this help, operations can improve efficiency whereas sustaining management of manufacturing environments, and IT can optimize community assets whereas securing the worldwide enterprise.
“The operations teams have different requirements than a typical IT organization [does]. Part of our job is to make sure that operations and IT continue to communicate,” explains Josh Rabaduex, director of Barry-Wehmiller Design Group. “We want to make sure that we help manufacturing keep their production goals [and] IT security in mind, and we want to keep both teams working together.”
As Busalachi notes, “[Velta Technology’s] expertise is industrial cybersecurity. Gaining visibility into these environments is the foundation for everything. The combination of Cyber Vision and Cisco IE3x00 switches makes it very simple to gain that visibility at scale. It’s the foundation for a robust industrial network and a comprehensive approach to OT security.”
Velta Technology’s capabilities, along with Cisco’s purpose-built industrial switches and Cisco Cyber Vision, assist organizations to deploy industrial networks through which safety isn’t an afterthought—it’s integrated by design. With this method to OT visibility and safety, industrial organizations can unlock larger IT capabilities, larger efficiency, and larger scalability—all whereas addressing relevant regulatory and compliance issues.
To study extra about how Cisco and its OT methods integrators companions will help you to construct superior and safe industrial networks, please contact us, and don’t overlook to subscribe to the Cisco IoT Security Newsletter.
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