Industrial Cyber Security Gets Attention from Embedded, Safety and Control System Sectors

摘要

FOLLOWING YEARS OF DISCUSSION around the critical need for improved cyber security across industry, it appears as if the movement is starting to snowball, as evidenced by the greater involvement of the embedded, control system patch management and safety sectors. On the embedded security front, a new product soon to be released by West Des Moines, Iowa-based Icon Labs (www.iconlabs.com) can be used to retrofit security onto existing assets. In essence, any device in an operation - from sensors and drives to controllers and actuators - that is or can be connected to a network can now have embedded-level firewall protection.