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Industrial Security & Compliance: Leveraging Pacesetter Experiences

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Security Pacesetters – What Are They doing?

Market competition in industry has traditionally driven the evolution of control systems. Over a decade ago, most control systems were autonomous and built upon proprietary vendor technology and the solutions were geared towards access to data, speed, and functionality (or reliability). The most important feature was access to data. At first many vendors built their own protocols or languages to allow for the transfer of data and soon the automation landscape became very proprietary and independent of other systems and protocols. Parallel to this was the development of Ethernet networks for business data networks. In early 2000, vendors saw advantages to include ‘Ethernet-compliance’ to allow for communication between systems including those outside the plant environment. However, in the rush to market many vendors built ad-hoc versions of protocols that worked for the purpose at hand but did not include security.

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