Securing ICS/OT cross-zone data transfer

A solution implementation to safely share and exchange business data in and out of the ICS/OT environment


Security is one of the greatest challenges 
facing the industrial sector 
in the last ten years.


The frequency of serious and harmful cyber attacks on business operations is increasing, forcing a radical change of philosophy for many companies. As a result, modern companies have completed – or are currently undergoing – a major transition from a hierarchically segregated to a segmented infrastructure, with new boundaries and perimeters being enforced and software upgrades and obsolescence management being prioritised. This is in line with the paradigm that we increasingly refer to simply as "secured OTN", which refers to the IT security component that must be introduced into ICS environments to achieve increasingly secure process data management by design.


This whitepaper provides an overview of the key security factors in deploying cross-zone data transfer solutions between ICS and OT systems. The whitepaper primarily addresses: 

  • standard-proof and inherently (more) secure data-transfer across diverse environments
  • seamless cross-site data-transfer
  • hard-secured cross-zone data flows
  • implementation of a gravity-well data router in the DMZ
 


 
 

AUTHOR
Giuseppe Mastroianni

Technical Officer at MAASI Enterprises 

Responsible for ensuring operational excellence and managing the competence portfolio, focused on leveraging new digital technologies to develop added-value services for partners.

CONTRIBUTOR
Gabriele Marini

CTO, Head of Research & Development at Data Rover

24 years in design and development of state-of-the-art web based enterprise software 12 of which as pioneer and executive product manager for high-end industrial software solutions now being used world-wide.


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