Advanced automation and digitization in control system networks make critical infrastructures and other industrial processes vulnerable to cyberattacks in today’s cyber threat environment. Compromised OT systems can result in physical consequences, ranging from damage to long lead-time assets, to threats to public safety and even to employee casualties. This partnership is a response to the urgent need to strengthen Japanese industrial assets against cyberattacks.
Terilogy is a distributor of Nozomi Networks OT security products and already has a track record of deploying Waterfall’s unidirectional products. This new partnership helps Terilogy to better serve Japanese critical infrastructure customers in infrastructures that include electric power, manufacturing, refineries, and chemical plants.
Visibility into operations is made simple by server replication. The gateways make copies of a wide variety of industrial data sources, such as OPC servers, historian servers, pub/sub servers, and relational database servers. Enterprise and even Internet users can use the enterprise copies of the servers normally – all the data allowed to be shared with external users can be found in the unidirectionally-synchronized enterprise servers.
The Japanese Cabinet Cyber Security Center and the Cyber Security Strategy Headquarters have revised their guidance to strengthen protection of critical infrastructure.
The new partnership between Waterfall and Terilogy enables protection for critical infrastructure and manufacturing control networks for Japanese owners and operators. Deploying unidirectional gateways creates a strong defensive posture.
Critical infrastructure products and services must be both reliable and seamlessly deployed.
Waterfall’s partnership with Terilogy emphasizes the commitment to improving OT security in Japan with the strongest and most powerful OT security available. Automation of industrial operations is only going to increase in the years ahead, as the cyber threat environment becomes more challenging.