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Xage Security, a global player in zero trust access and protection, and Yokogawa Engineering Asia Pte Ltd have announced a strategic partnership. This collaboration aims to provide zero trust access, protection, and data exchange for next-generation autonomous industrial operations. It marks a significant step towards evolving from industrial automation to autonomy while ensuring high cybersecurity standards and human and ecological safety.
The Partnership’s Vision
Together, Xage and Yokogawa are creating solutions that integrate the Xage Fabric for enhanced security, expediting the transformation of industrial plants into secure, fully autonomous operations. This means facilities will operate without human interaction, while possessing human-like learning and adaptive capabilities. In this ideal state, the facility and its integrated supply chain and industry partners function autonomously.
Reaching the vision of a fully digital enterprise requires advanced and precise security capabilities. One of the main challenges in transitioning from manual to autonomous processes is managing and securing data across OT, IT, and IIoT systems. Effective data management demands comprehensive security and access protocols for all assets, both locally and remotely.
Technology Partner Requirements
As security needs for critical infrastructure evolves, Yokogawa continues to strengthen its security solutions with strategic partnerships. These partnerships enable Yokogawa to offer the process industries customized and innovative approaches.
To address the industry security needs and its evolution towards industrial autonomy, Yokogawa has set specific technology partner requirements, including:
Enhancing cybersecurity and resilience to maintain continuous operations during incidents
Managing data sharing and network access permissions
Enforcing audit and access policies for operational assets
Maintaining fully recoverable backups
Verifying all network traffic, especially from third parties, by implementing zero trust principles
Collaborating with academia and government in cyber drills and information exchanges to maintain optimal cybersecurity hygiene
Xage complements Yokogawa’s technology portfolio
Xage employs a preventative cybersecurity approach, enhancing resilience through easily deployed and enforced zero trust policies for all users and assets, from legacy systems to the latest cloud technologies. Built on a distributed ledger, Xage ensures high-integrity, tamper-proof data and meticulously documents all actions in audit-quality logs.
Xage has proven its capability to provide universal zero trust access and protection in highly sensitive environments, from data centers to satellites in orbit. The Yokogawa team has received extensive training and certification on Xage products to maintain high implementation and support standards.
Through this strategic partnership, Xage and Yokogawa are set to reshape the landscape of industrial operations, paving the way for a future where industrial autonomy and cybersecurity are seamlessly integrated.