Partnership Addresses Growing Cybersecurity Challenges

Siemens and Norwegian industrial cybersecurity company Secure-NOK sign a partnership agreement to integrate new cybersecurity offerings within the Ruggedcom portfolio of network components and to supplement the Siemens industrial security portfolio. The combination of the companies’ industrial experience and technology reportedly offers a flexible option for infrastructure in industries such as power utilities, oil and gas installations, transportation systems and others with a growing need to protect against cyber threats.

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

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

• 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 the 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. The offering 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.

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