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Rockwell Automation and Cisco have released new network design guides and white papers to help companies connect mobile devices and deploy end-to-end cloud connectivity while maintaining security best practices. The guides provide companies with best practices for wired and wireless network architectures when deploying cloud and mobile industrial IoT solutions. The free resources are the latest addition to the Converged Plantwide Ethernet (CPwE) program.
More Securely Deploy Mobile Connections
The new Identity and Mobility Services guide can help companies connect mobile devices in a way that can better manage security risks. The guide, based on the Cisco Identity Services Engine platform, supports industrial security by identifying, authorizing and posturing mobile connections at three levels: device, application and user. The guide also helps users to establish unified and autonomous WLAN architectures and manage self-service wireless access.
More Securely Deploy Cloud Connections
The new Cloud Connectivity guide provides guidance for using the FactoryTalk Cloud gateway to establish a more secure connection from the plant floor to cloud-based applications, such as FactoryTalk Analytics for Machines. This end-to-end connectivity is required to deploy capabilities, such as remote monitoring and support. The design guide addresses varying levels of security measures that should be considered for small to large companies.
Better Fortify Industrial Security
Rockwell Automation and Cisco also recently expanded their CPwE industrial security design guides.
The new Industrial Firewalls guide provides several use cases for industrial firewalls and addresses a number of application requirements, technologies and design considerations. For example, machine builders can learn how to use firewalls to help prevent plantwide traffic from interrupting the performance of their machines.
The previously released Industrial Demilitarized Zone (IDMZ) guide has been updated with new applications for using the FactoryTalk VantagePoint and FactoryTalk ViewPoint software from Rockwell Automation.
The new CPwE design guides are available for download on the Rockwell Automation website. CPwE content is intended to help industrial operations design and deploy a more scalable, reliable, secure and future-ready plantwide industrial network infrastructure. The CPwE industrial security framework, which applies a holistic and diverse multi-layered approach, is closely aligned to industrial security standards, such as IEC-62443 and NIST 800-82. CPwE testing and validation follow the Cisco Validated Design (CVD) and Cisco Reference Design (CRD) methodologies.