Cisco Delivers Two New Industry Solutions to Protect Against Security Threats and Enhance Collaborative Decision Making
July 24 2014 - 8:00AM
Today, Cisco unveiled new solutions that make it easier for
customers to better support risk management and compliance for
industrial control environments and connect experts for mission
critical communications and collaboration. As the Internet of
Everything (IoE) is enabling new business processes and operational
workflows across vertical industries, this increasing complexity
requires greater collaboration as well as more robust and secure
solutions to protect against evolving threats. To address these
issues for both business and operational leaders, Cisco is
announcing Cisco Collaborative Operations and Cisco Secure Ops
Solutions. These new solutions provide more visibility into their
business and positively impact the bottom line by protecting
against risks, improving efficiency and lowering site downtime.
In addition to the process manufacturing industries (such as Oil
& Gas, Mining), these solutions are relevant across all
industries including manufacturing, transportation, utilities,
healthcare, and public sector.
Key Highlights
Cisco Secure Ops Solution
- Supports risk management and compliance for industrial control
environments. It addresses risks using a combination of people,
process and technology.
- Provides the framework for a wide range of industry partners
and technology providers including Rockwell, Yokogawa Electric,
McAfee and Symantec, among others.
- Is comprised of tightly integrated Cisco and third party
products and services.
- It is designed to be "dropped in" to brownfield or greenfield
environments and delivers unparalleled capabilities and security
control mechanisms.
- The integration extends into commercial arrangements with
automation suppliers for services like qualified patch lists and
critical updates.
- Secure Ops benefits businesses across multiple functions:
- Business leaders gain situational awareness
for security maturity and compliance within various parts of the
business.
- Site leadership and management benefit from
reduced management complexity and increased consistency across
individual sites, leading to optimized operational costs.
- Site technical leaders are provided with a
technical solution to help manage security and compliance on a
per-site basis as well as valuable tools to increase it through
standardized interfaces and capabilities
- Corporate risk and compliance leaders receive
near real time information on operational risks associated with
threats and adherence to compliance policies.
Cisco Collaborative Operations Solution
- Collaborative Operations is a collaborative portal that
combines voice, video and data collaboration in a single, secure
view.
- The collaborative portal is designed for operations personnel
working in distributed networks and lets remote experts help guide
operations in real-time, afford greater reach per expert resource
and minimize miscommunication driving faster, better decision
making.
- Technologies include: Cisco Video Surveillance Manager; Cisco
IPICS; landline; mobile; two-way radios and remote speaker
integration; chat functionality; WebEx and multiple application
sharing into an Operations Environment over an optimized, secure
network. The ability to include analytics also enables proactive
monitoring of operations, creating an opportunity to anticipate
issues and react faster when they arise.
- Benefits:
- Businesses can proactively monitor operations and reduce
operations downtime.
- Platform enables communication between stakeholders at all
times. Remote Experts can be instantly connected with on-site
personnel using voice, video or data.
- Solution creates opportunities for workforce development and
training, safety improvements, and risk mitigation
Supporting Quotes
Matt Fordenwalt, Business Manager, Customer Support
& Maintenance, Rockwell Automation:
Rockwell Automation is working with Cisco on a variety of IoE
solutions in industries like Manufacturing and Energy, and we are
very pleased to join Cisco as they bring the Secure Ops solution to
these key IoE industry verticals across the globe. The
emerging trend of information technology (IT) and operational
technology (OT) working together is driving the need for Cisco and
Rockwell Automation to combine expertise across these functions to
help design, manage risk and maintain compliance of a secure
network infrastructure throughout your connected enterprise.
Chiaki Itoh, Vice President, Industrial Automation
Marketing Headquarters, Yokogawa Electric Corporation:
Our industrial automation customers around the world have been
facing a wide range of security and operational challenges as they
continually work in a dynamically changing business and technology
environment to increase the reliability of their plant operations,
reduce total cost of ownership (TCO), and achieve sustainable
business growth.
Yokogawa is a leading, global, one-stop provider of innovative
IA solutions that utilize IoE technology to enhance security
management, contribute to operational excellence through the
reduction of TCO and other means, and ensure sustainable business
growth.
Yokogawa is very happy to be collaborating with Cisco on its
Secure Ops initiative, and views this as a platform for integrating
Yokogawa IA and Cisco IoE best practices and innovations that will
help global IA customers enhance security, achieve operational
excellence, and improve agility.
Phil Rapatz, Director, IT Infrastructure and Operations,
Halliburton
Halliburton recognizes that an integrated and intuitive
end-to-end solution like Collaborative Operations is necessary to
deliver our field-to-real-time operations center needs and add to
our operational capabilities.
Greg Carter, Director/GM, Internet of
Everything Services Group, Cisco
These solutions were designed to enable our customers like Shell
and Halliburton to better collaborate as well as provide a robust
and secure solution to quickly address potential threats that come
with the increase in connected people, processes and things with
IoE. I'm thrilled that two of our valued partners are already
seeing the benefits from these innovations and look forward to
extending this solution to more customers across other verticals in
the months ahead.
Supporting Resources:
Video: Improve Field Operations with Cisco Collaborative
Operations Solution
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