Nozomi Networks, Inc., a provider of industrial cybersecurity and operational visibility, and Siemens, an automation and digitalization innovation leader, have expanded their collaboration by embedding Nozomi Networks’ Guardian Remote Collector software into the Siemens Scalance LPE local processing engine, a hardware platform designed for data processing for edge and cloud applications in manufacturing environments. Customers can now deploy the leading OT & IoT continuous monitoring solution to their industrial networks with ease, thanks to the power and simplicity of the Siemens Scalance LPE hardware.
“This is a significant milestone for the Siemens partnership with Nozomi Networks,” said Sid Snitkin, Vice-President Cybersecurity Advisory Services at ARC Advisory Group.
“Embedding Nozomi Networks solutions into Siemens Scalance LPE eliminates integration cycles and gives users an efficient and reliable solution with cybersecurity capabilities baked in.”
The Scalance LPE hosts a Docker containerized version of the Guardian Remote Collector, which brings local data collection, pre-processing, and analytics to operational technology deployments. It enables more efficient analysis and data aggregation by any centralized application, including Nozomi Networks Vantage cloud-hosted security platform, and provides an effective way to distribute processing power across large manufacturing operations.
The Scalance LPE seamlessly delivers highly scalable continuous monitoring and intrusion detection to the network edge. Data is sent from the edge to the Scalance LPE’s Nozomi Networks Remote Collector, which monitors and analyzes industrial network protocols (such as PROFINET, EtherNet/IP, and EtherCat) for anomalous behavior and potential threats. This integration is unique in that it can collect traffic from parallel PROFIsafe production cells using Siemens reference network architectures. Nozomi Networks analyzes data from industrial processes or global enterprises in order to provide insights and actionable intelligence to address security threats and accelerate effective response and remediation efforts.
The Scalance LPE enables large-scale factory automation by providing distributed local processing capabilities at the edge, making it an ideal complement to Nozomi Networks, the industry’s most scalable OT cybersecurity solution.
“This is the first distributed cybersecurity data collection and analysis software embedded in the Scalance LPE platform and is a vital part of our defense-in-depth concept for OT cybersecurity,” said Maximilian Korff, Lead, Business Development for Scalance at Siemens. “This integration offers our customers a non-intrusive and powerful solution to detect threats in real-time and gain deeper visibility of their OT network,”
“Supporting the Scalance LPE with a docker container version of our Remote Collector will streamline deployment options for our customers and follows on our existing support for the Siemens Ruggedcom APE platform,” said Chet Namboodri, Vice President of Business Development at Nozomi Networks. “Siemens helps customers get the most out of the Nozomi Networks platform at any scale for these critical manufacturing and industrial control customers.”
