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Secure access to data from a production system means making outbound connections.

Heritage Petroleum Company used Cogent DataHub software to integrate new IoT-enabled well-monitoring devices.

Demand for secure connectivity between OT and cloud systems has never been greater.

Accessing production data through a DMZ can be done with well-designed tunnel/mirror software.

The modern enterprise needs secure access to data from OT to increase efficiency and cut production costs.

There has never been a time when making secure remote connections to industrial data has been more critical.

Initial studies and pilot projects point to significant efficiency gains and cost savings made possible by connecting production systems to AI engines.

Cyber-Informed engineering is a valuable approach towards keeping industrial processes secure.

Today’s competitive environment demands access to operations data, and operational data must be secure. These two requirements need not conflict, though.

Skkynet has announced fiscal quarter-end performance for Q3 2023, delivering exceptional sales growth of 19%.

Larger, more complex systems can benefit from a smart MQTT broker. This feature comes from the ebook AUTOMATION 2023 Volume 3: IIoT & Industry 4.0.

Meet NIST SP 800-82 guidelines and the NIS 2 Directive with a system that incorporates demilitarized zones. This feature originally appeared in AUTOMATION 2023 Volume 2: Connectivity & Cybersecurity.

The TEPCO SYSTEMS Corporation (TEPSYS) recently implemented DataHub technology supplied by Skkynet partner BellChild Co. Ltd. to upgrade data collection, storage and visualization for a customer operating a hydroelectric power plant in central Japan.

DataHub middleware from Skkynet was used by ABB to support redundant, secure networking of OPC A&E and real-time data on the Trans-Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline (TANAP) project in Turkey.

By Bob McIlvride, Skkynet The IIoT is all about connecting data sources, integrating their data, using it to power analytics, and possibly doing supervisory control on selected equipment or systems. There's no reason that can't be done on-premise.

Tricco was tasked with developing a secure and reliable way to collect data from control systems running at power plants located hundreds of kilometers from the Siemens office. The first phase was to be a pilot—to connect his WinCC OA SCADA system to a Siemens T3000 DCS running at a power plant located about 100 kilometers from Buenos Aires.

Tricco was tasked with developing a secure and reliable way to collect data from control systems running at power plants located hundreds of kilometers from the Siemens office. The first phase was to be a pilot—to connect his WinCC OA SCADA system to a Siemens T3000 DCS running at a power plant located about 100 kilometers from Buenos Aires.

By Bob McIlvride, Skkynet Cloud Systems SDKs tend to be collections of reference implementations, wrappers, helper classes, and sample applications aimed at giving you a head-start for building your UA app. Developers with experience in OPC UA find these tools indispensable. The problem is, in the end, they still need to build it.

By Bob McIlvride, Skkynet Cloud Systems Kaspersky Labs used common exploit-discovery techniques to identify 17 critical security flaws in the OPC UA software they were testing. There is no reason to doubt their methodology, but we all need to be careful about the conclusions that we reach.

By Bob McIlvride, Director, Communications, Skkynet Cloud Systems In the rapidly-evolving space of Industrial IoT (IIoT), we are seeing some growth in understanding about what makes a good IIoT protocol. For IIoT to work well, the tools you employ must suit the unique requirements.