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Phoenix Contact USA announced a partnership with Xona, a provider of secure access solutions for critical infrastructure and operational technology environments, combining their industrial networking and OT cybersecurity strengths to deliver zero-trust remote access tailored for ICS/OT settings. The integration of the Xona Platform with Phoenix Contact’s EP Raptor series switches is designed to enable secure access for internal, remote, and authorized third-party users while reducing rack space, power usage, and cabling requirements.
In a hybrid operational landscape, the capacity for remote and mobile operations is becoming increasingly important for maintaining resiliency, improving efficiency, and achieving organizational goals. However, as IT and OT systems converge, organizations face cybersecurity risks that traditional IT security solutions are not equipped to handle. To address this, companies require OT-specific integrated platforms to protect critical infrastructure from threat actors.
Phoenix Contact offers an IEC 61850 and IEEE 1613-compliant industrial Ethernet switching platform for sectors such as energy, transportation, and other critical infrastructure industries. The new partnership enhances this multi-service hardware platform by incorporating Xona’s zero-trust user access layer, which includes integrated closed-loop multi-factor authentication (MFA), browser-based virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), moderated secure file transfer, system connection segmentation and monitoring, protocol isolation, and detailed user access forensics—all delivered through a single solution.
Learn more about the markets for Industrial Ethernet Switches and Industrial Cybersecurity Challenges and Solutions.