SCADAwall is a high performance one-way gateway that ensures the secure transfer of industrial data from inside to outside the factory
Milan, 04/06/2020 – ServiTecno and Bayshore Networks, a US company that develops solutions for the protection of the security and integrity of industrial networks and critical infrastructures, announce the availability of SCADAwall, a hardware gateway designed to guarantee companies maximum security in the transfer of industrial data from the factory to the outside.
SCADAwall is a one-way gateway, a “digital diode” that installs in a 19″ rack and physically separates industrial equipment from the outside world, protecting it from the risk associated with Internet exposure.
Thanks to this device it is possible to transfer data and files from the plants to the outside in a secure way, for example to integrate production data into IT platforms for decision support or to feed data analytics systems, without risking compromising the safety of the equipment of the plant.
The diodes in fact isolate the internal network, considered reliable, from any type of incoming connection. This is why they are considered the safest systems to protect and isolate certain domains. In fact, they are used by government organizations that need to exchange data even in highly regulated sectors such as, for example, nuclear power plants and critical infrastructures in general.
“Today it is essential to be able to use plant data in external systems in order to be able to analyze them and obtain information from them essential to support decisions. However, if you have to connect the plants to the Internet to extract the data, the systems would be exposed to extremely serious threats”, explains Enzo Maria Tieghi, CEO of ServiTecno. "With SCADAwall it is finally possible to enable one-way communication from inside to outside the plant, thanks to the creation of a real physical barrier".
Until now, the use of diodes in industry has been limited by the high cost of the technology and relatively low bandwidth, as well as the additional loss of throughput due to the need to retransmit filtered data, which can consume up to 30-40 % of available bandwidth.
“What makes the SCADAwall unique is the fact that we have developed a number of techniques, for which we have applied for a patent, which offer certainty of transmission, validation of files and a throughput of up to 1 gigabits/second”, said Toby Weir-Jones, chief product officer of Bayshore Networks. “For the base systems we use off-the-shelf, commercially available hardware, reducing costs, while implementing our technology through dedicated high-speed serial interface cards installed in each system. We also apply our high-performance content inspection engine that allows us to analyze files and data in transit and enforce policies, if desired, to deny and quarantine unauthorized or unauthorized file transfers. safe".
Thanks to these expedients, SCADAwall is a technology accessible to companies of all sizes and not only to large companies with large budgets. The 1 gigabit SCADAwall costs less than half of competing devices that often offer bandwidth as low as 100 megabits.
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