Breakthrough product!

We often report on the security products from Byres Security which continue to impress with their ingenuity and imagination.

The Tofino-based firewall, the Triconex® / Tofino™ OPC Firewall, has been selected as a Breakthrough Product of the Year for 2010 by Processing Magazine. The product is marketed and sold by Invensys Operations Management, a global provider of technology systems, software solutions and consulting services to the process and manufacturing industries. The award recognizes those products, services and/or technologies that have made significant contributions to the process industries within the past year.

“The new Invensys firewall is truly revolutionary because it was the first product on the market that protects integrated applications based on OPC Classic, the world’s most widely used industrial integration protocol,” remarked Eric Byres, security expert and technical officer at Byres Security, which developed the Tofino product.“We were pleased to be able to provide this innovation to Invensys and we are thrilled to see that their pioneering efforts to provide cyber secure safety systems have been honored with this major award.”
“Processors and manufacturers are continuously threatened by new and increasingly dangerous cyber attacks, which requires greater vigilance and security,” said Joe Scalia, portfolio architect, Invensys Operations Management. “The Triconex / Tofino OPC Firewall mitigates those risks by managing the traffic to and from the Triconex TCM, providing further assurance that a cyber incursion will not compromise integrated communications between the safety and critical control systems and supervisory HMI or distributed control systems."

“Plant safety remains one of the toughest challenges any plant faces on a day-to-day basis,” said Dennis Van Milligen, associate publisher and editor of Processing magazine. “Plant managers need the latest innovative technology to protect their products, their employees and the environment, as well as the communities they serve. The Triconex / Tofino OPC Firewall secures safety systems and network operations from malicious attacks and other threats, and helps process plants achieve safety excellence in their operations. We are happy to recognize this solution as one of our Breakthrough Products of 2010.”