Regensburg, 22.07.2019 – The leading manufacturer for industrial data communications and networking INSYS icom and the network security company Rhebo present their common solution for secure and stable communication, data acquisition and data processing in industrial networks. The objective of their partnership is to ensure efficiency, network stability and cyber security in industrial networks as well as to realize remote maintenance, condition monitoring and even big data analytics – easy, step-by-step and future-proof.
Increasing networking in the production area requires continuous monitoring with anomaly detection. This is the only way to reliably detect unknown or hidden security incidents as well as technical error conditions in addition to already known attack patterns.
This is the only way to reliably detect unknown or hidden security incidents as well as technical error conditions in addition to already known attack patterns. Routers as an interface between machines, systems, company networks or control centers are ideally suitable to implement this functionality. Using the high-quality, long-term available INSYS icom VPN routers and IoT gateways, a huge number of applications like remote maintenance, condition monitoring and security monitoring can be implemented in the OT (operational technology) as well. Due to their hardened IoT operating system (icom OS) with high functionality, their integrated computing power for their own applications (icom SmartBox) and scalable software for edge computing (icom Data Suite), they can do more than data communications: Thus, Rhebo Industrial Protector, the passive, non-reactive monitoring system for communications in industrial control systems and in pilot systems, runs directly on an INSYS icom router. Its Linux containers offer maximum flexibility through their high degree of virtualization.
Rhebo Industrial Protector: integrated network monitoring with anomaly detection
Rhebo Industrial Protector continuously analyses the communication in the control systems and evaluates it in real-time for anomalies. Security-relevant incidents as well as technical error conditions are detected, evaluated and reported – no matter if they were already known or are new. As a complete picture of the control systems is available any time, it is possible to react to anomalies before the operation of the system will be affected.
“We are glad to be part of the strong partner network of INSYS icom. The high-quality, powerful components of INSYS icom are established in industrial enterprises with networked productions as well as critical infrastructures of the energy and water management and provide for an efficient monitoring. The routers are integrating the Rhebo Industrial Protector anomaly detection at the most important interfaces of the M2M communication. Thus, we can guarantee secure and stable control networks,” explains Klaus Mochalski, CEO Rhebo.
Wolfgang Wanner, Senior Manager for Sales & Business Development at INSYS icom, describes the advantages of the solution:
“Now operators of control networks can record the data traffic that takes place behind the router directly on our smart routers. The data will then be highly compressed and sent to the Rhebo Industrial Protector anomaly detection to identify unknown cyber incidents and technical error conditions. This extends the possibilities of our customers by an important IT security function. In Rhebo we found a partner who reliably adds the growing aspect of network security and stability to our value proposition.”