ABB understands the customer’s need to maintain a
secure and reliable control environment – with minimal time
and effort. Cyber security is an important aspect of any
comprehensive security plan, especially at a time when the
number of active IT viruses is on the rise and targeted cyberattacks
are rapidly increasing.
The damage caused by these viruses and attacks
have become more crippling, given their ever-growing
sophistication. Industrial control systems have been the target
of such attacks in the past – and will continue to be so in the
near term.
Control systems are the “command and control centers” of
industrial installations. As such, a variety of groups find them
to be “interesting” targets. Control systems should be
protected.
However, just as there is no 100% security in the real world,
a 100% security in the cyber world is simply not attainable.
What can be done instead is to have a solid cyber-security
strategy in place consisting of several layers of defense to
protect against attacks and to minimize disruptions to the
control system and the plant in case of attacks.
In addition to building many security features into Freelance,
ABB actively participates in several major control system
security standards committees. These standards are designed
to increase the integrity and confidentiality of all system
functions and help to prevent unauthorized access to control
systems