Industrial Cybersecurity Solutions from Secure-NOK for Siemens Ruggedcom Portfolio

  • Ideal for Power Utilities, Oil &Gas installations and Transportation Systems
  • Addressing new and growing cybersecurity challenges

Siemens and the Norwegian industrial cybersecurity company Secure-NOK signed a partnership agreement to integrate new cybersecurity solutions within the Ruggedcom portfolio of rugged network components and to supplement the Siemens Industrial Security portfolio. The combination of Siemens extensive industrial experience and Secure-NOKs technology built and offered solely for industrial purposes offers a flexible solution for infrastructure in industries such as Power Utilities, Oil &Gas installations, Transportation Systems and others with a growing need to protect against cyber threats.

Secure-NOK offers SNOK™, a scalable, distributed, small data solution designed to perform local detection of malware, espionage, sabotage or other harmful cyber-events. SNOK™ is designed to be implemented on industrial sites, running on hardware with limited computing power.

Secure-NOK and Siemens joint offering will include interoperability with following products:

SNOK™ Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS) on the Ruggedcom RX1500 with Ruggedcom APE to monitor the network to detect intrusions. NIDS comes in basic, small, medium and large deployments depending on size of the network. The Ruggedcom APE is a utility-grade computing platform that plugs directly into any member of the Ruggedcom RX1500 family and makes it possible to run third party software applications without the complications and inconveniences of procuring an external industrial PC.

SNOK™ Cybersecurity Monitoring System monitors both the network and endpoints (hosts) to detect intrusions. This solution comes in small and large deployments depending on size of network and number of hosts to be monitored.

SNOK™ Enterprise Solution for monitoring of multiple sites from control centers. Includes SNOK™ Cybersecurity Monitoring System (CSM) as standard.

This partnership allows for the combination of product lines from both companies to create security appliances uniquely adapted to infrastructure in industries such as Power Utilities, Oil &Gas installations, Transportation Systems, including in remote and harsh environments. Siemens and Secure-NOK are committed to bringing a new level of cybersecurity offerings to their customers and to continue developing together to meet future needs in modern days fast changing threat landscape.

For more information on SecureNOK solutions go to https://www.securenok.com and for more information on Ruggedcom products go to www.siemens.com/ruggedcom.

Siemens AG (Berlin and Munich) is a global technology powerhouse that has stood for engineering excellence, innovation, quality, reliability and internationality for 170 years. The company is active around the globe, focusing on the areas of electrification, automation and digitalization. One of the world’s largest producers of energy-efficient, resource-saving technologies, Siemens is a leading supplier of efficient power generation and power transmission solutions and a pioneer in infrastructure solutions as well as automation, drive and software solutions for industry. The company is also a leading provider of medical imaging equipment – such as computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging systems – and a leader in laboratory diagnostics as well as clinical IT. In fiscal 2017, which ended on September 30, 2017, Siemens generated revenue of €83.0 billion and net income of €6.2 billion. At the end of September 2017, the company had around 377,000 employees worldwide. Further information is available on the Internet at www.siemens.com.

Secure-NOK™ AS is a Norwegian industrial cybersecurity company with headquarters in Hamar, Norway and offices in Houston, TX (US). The company was established in 2010 and is comprised of an international team with extensive experience in controls and automation systems cybersecurity, including SCADA and embedded systems. Secure-NOK operates in a number of industrial cybersecurity market segments, including Power Utilities, Oil &Gas Installations, Transportation Systems, Critical Manufacturing and Aviation. The company´s core technology, SNOK™, monitors Industrial Automation and Control Systems (IACS) from the inside to detect cyber-attacks. Secure-NOK’s unique approach combines network and endpoint monitoring with anomaly behavior detection. This reduces blind spots in the infrastructure and enables detection of known as well as unknown cyber-attacks at an early stage. Through its core technology, Secure-NOK enables well-informed security decisions by providing asset owners and operators with early warnings of cybersecurity events.
Further information is available on the Internet at www.securenok.com.

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