Bayshore Networks, a provider of active cybersecurity solutions to protect the safety and integrity of industrial and critical infrastructure networks, has announced the release of SCADAwall
SCADAwall is a new hardware device that provides secure, non-routable, one-way data transfer from trusted in-plant sources to untrusted destinations such as corporate IT and other business destinations outside the plant.
The transfer is completed through data diode functionality – essentially providing an airgap bridge. SCADAwall physically separates, secures and isolates sensitive equipment in the trusted plant zone from the risk of internet exposure or malicious activity, while allowing for the flow of critical plant data into business systems.
Eric Byres, inventor of Tofino Security, and now CEO of supply-chain security company aDolus, said, “Everybody wants to get data directly and securely from the plant floor to corporate business destinations for tasks like replication, analytics, security threat hunting and decision support. Until SCADAwall, this has been complex and expensive for most organisations to do.”
Toby Weir-Jones, chief product officer at Bayshore Networks, said, “What makes SCADAwall unique and attractive to our customers is that we leverage multiple patent-pending techniques and multiplexed connections to deliver guaranteed throughput as fast as one gigabit per second.
“We use standard, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware for the base systems, which significantly reduces cost. In addition, we implement our protocol break across dedicated high-speed serial interface cards installed in each system and apply our unique industrial content inspection engine to analyse data in-transit. This allows us to enforce customer’s policies if desired to deny and quarantine unauthorised or unsafe file transfers.”
