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  • Top 10 Differences Between ICS and IT Cybersecurity

    Top 10 Differences Between ICS and IT Cybersecurity

    Understanding the different needs of ICS and IT system security leads to cooperation and collaboration between historically disconnected camps
    By: Contributing Authors
    10 December, 2014 | 14 minutes
  • Kepware OPC server helps Molex handle many protocols

    Molex plant floors consist of hundreds of different machines from a variety of vendors, with each speaking its own language or “protocol.” An OPC server connected them all.
    05 December, 2014 | 3 minutes
  • ABB Joins Industrial Internet Consortium

    Industrial Internet Consortium is a group of more than 100 companies, organizations and universities working to accelerate growth of the Industrial Internet.
    04 December, 2014 | 2 minutes
  • 4 Tips to Design & Implement a Brownfield Network

    By Bill Lewins, Rockwell Automation Designing and implementing a network that addresses all process control concerns can be a difficult for any application, but brownfield projects are especially challenging. Fortunately, there are ways to ease this transition.
    04 December, 2014 | 3 minutes
  • The Smart Factory needs a powerful PROFINET cabling system

    By Rainer Schmidt, Harting PROFINET is an independent, proprietary system, which is primarily used for communication between PROFINET components. If PROFINET wants to seamlessly communicate right into the SAP level, it runs into the structured cabling which the IT infrastructure of the company uses.
    04 December, 2014 | 6 minutes
  • Westermo updates WeConfig for monitoring

    Version 1.1 of the Network Configuration Management software can now be used as a simple monitoring and diagnostics tool for industrial routers, switches and Ethernet line extenders..
    04 December, 2014 | 2 minutes
  • HMS development centers offer customized solutions

    Local development centers will help customers get customized solutions for industrial network connectivity, machine communication, wireless solutions, integrated safety and remote management.
    03 December, 2014 | 2 minutes
  • Of Critical Infrastructure And Cyber Security Risks

    By Shiva Bissessar How secure is our Critical Infrastructure from Cyber Security risks? Dr. Sanjay Bahadoorsingh updates the challenges and opportunities in the Smart Grid.
    02 December, 2014 | 3 minutes
  • Sercos IPS Conformizer available as free testing tool

    Testing tool verifies the correct implementation of the Sercos Internet Protocol Services (S-IPS).
    01 December, 2014 | 2 minutes
  • Sercos publishes OPC UA Companion Specification

    This specification describes the mapping of the Sercos information model to OPC UA so that functions and data of Sercos devices are made available and accessible via OPC UA.
    01 December, 2014 | 2 minutes
  • HMS adds wireless gateways from u-blox/connectBlue

    After the acquisition of the wireless gateways from u-blox/connectBlue in September, HMS Industrial Networks can now present an expanded suite of Anybus Wireless Bridge products for connecting industrial devices wirelessly.
    01 December, 2014 | 1 minutes
  • Building a Cyber Security Infrastructure

    By Bill Lydon, Editor A company called Tempered Networks has developed an interesting, alternative approach to cyber-protection architecture for industrial control systems. The architecture goes beyond a software only solution and includes both hardware and firmware components to create a secure industrial automation network.
    01 December, 2014 | 3 minutes
  • ODVA Forms Special Interest Group for EtherNet/IP

    The SIG will proliferate adoption of EtherNet/IP in the process industries, and integrate field devices with industrial control systems and related diagnostic services.
    25 November, 2014 | 2 minutes
  • ODVA releases updated EtherNet/IP spec for Power Management

    The latest EtherNet/IP Specification provides the framework for users to design energy-conserving functionality into their products for when equipment is in production mode.
    25 November, 2014 | 2 minutes
  • Skkynet Expands Secure Cloud Services for Industrial & Embedded Systems

    Skkynet's Secure Cloud Service allows industrial and embedded systems to securely network live data in real time from anywhere across five continents that has an Internet connection.
    24 November, 2014 | 3 minutes
    Sponsored By Skkynet Cloud Systems
  • Secomea SiteManage is security certified by ProtectEM

    The remote access solution consists of a control unit at the factory (SiteManager) in form of either hardware or software and a Web- or Windows based client (LinkManager) operated by technicians or end-users.
    21 November, 2014 | 1 minute
  • Infotecs Earns FIPS 140-2 Crypto Certification for ViPNet

    ViPNet Common Crypto Core supports true VPN endpoint-to-endpoint security.
    19 November, 2014 | 1 minutes
  • Emerson releases RTU and HART configuration suite

    The software suite enables local and remote configuration and real-time HART device monitoring in remote oil and gas applications such as wellhead automation, flow measurement, and tank overflow protection.
    19 November, 2014 | 2 minutes
  • Sercos announces IP core for Altera Cyclone V FPGAs and SoCs

    The IP core for Sercos III master and slave controllers (SERCON100M/S) includes all hardware functions, such as timing, synchronization and processing of cyclic and non-cyclic data on the basis of two integrated Ethernet MACs.
    18 November, 2014 | 2 minutes
  • AT&T Collaborates with Rockwell Automation

    The companies plan to deliver cellular solutions that help enable Rockwell Automation customers to securely collect, manage and take action on data from industrial equipment located in plants and remote sites around the globe.
    17 November, 2014 | 1 minutes
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