Protecting critical industries against cyberthreats

Amir Nickel, Sales Director Nordics at TXOne Networks

The greater productivity promised by digital transformation and modern technologies drives manufacturers to embrace them and to take the risk of opening the door further to networking and the internet. However, every advancement brings with it new attack surfaces, and the potential for another, even more aggressive wave of cyberattacks.

Especially critical infrastructures need a special kind of protection against these new threats. Classical IT security solutions are not suitable for this job. The differences between technology used in operations and IT became apparent as cyber defenders attempted and failed to apply traditional anti-malware protections to operational technology (OT).

OT systems are very different from IT and suitable cybersecurity solutions must adhere to high standards and meet specific requirements. They must be transparent and able to coexist smoothly with all equipment, operating systems, and protocols used in the operating environment. So the terrain of the OT threat landscape is changing with the rhythms of Industry 4.0, industrial IoT, and digital transformation.

ONE RESULT OF THIS NEW SECURITY awareness is the new EU NIS2 (Network and Information Security) Directive. Its overall purpose is to further improve the resilience and incident response capacities of both the public and private sectors in the European Union.

AS A GLOBAL LEADER IN INDUSTRIAL control system (ICS) and industrial IoT (IIoT) security, TXOne Networks notices a huge demand for OT native cybersecurity, especially for solutions that inherit the necessary cybersecurity features from the start, quasi by design. TXOne Networks and Finish OEM partner Valmet are pioneers in this sector and enhance the ability of industrial customers to better protect, respond, and recover from a cybersecurity incident. Strategic partner Valmet incorporates TXOne Networks’ OT cybersecurity solutions into their OT security services offering. With this cooperation, TXOne Networks even further improves its customer service and solution portfolio in Europe.

“Our cybersecurity solutions especially meet the needs of protecting OT networks in critical industries such as energy, transport, health and digital infrastructure,” explains Amir Nickel, Sales Director Nordics at TXOne Networks. “As a global leader in process automation solutions, Valmet is a key partner for TXOne Networks, and we are pleased that our joint customers will benefit from innovative and highly secure end-to-end cybersecurity solutions in the OT area.”

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