Cybersecurity for DeltaV Systems
Establish a proactive cybersecurity strategy to protect your process control system and network against potential threats.
Security breaches on a process control system can have disastrous implications. It has become increasingly important to protect your process control system and network connections and take appropriate steps to further protect your plant against potential threats. Cybersecurity Solutions for DeltaV Systems is a set of services and products to establish a proactive cybersecurity strategy.
The DeltaV control network architecture creates a separate control system network completely segmented from other networks in the plant, delivering a system inherently protected from unauthorized external access. DeltaV installation uses the latest operating system hardening templates and disables unused system services to create a more secure workstation. Microsoft Windows Group Policies are used to prevent access to removable media and can be customized to address your specific use cases.
DeltaV Smart Switches provide auto port lockdown to prevent unauthorized access to the network from switch ports. The Firewall-IPD adds an additional layer of security to protect DeltaV embedded nodes. The Emerson Smart Firewall creates easy-to-implement system perimeter-security features to help protect your system from unauthorized access by people or applications on external networks.
Monitor and manage network devices within the DeltaV system. All routine system maintenance and troubleshooting is done from secured DeltaV workstations so physical access to equipment is not required. This reduces security risks, as no unsecured external equipment is required to service the system. No open network ports on field equipment are necessary, so risk of unauthorized access is eliminated.
All network equipment supplied with the DeltaV system is fully tested and supported by Emerson as part of DeltaV development. There are no incompatibility “surprises” during implementation and commissioning of the system. System troubleshooting is simpler and faster because we can easily eliminate component incompatibility issues as being part of the problem.
DeltaV™ v14 gives you a new level of confidence and protection from cybersecurity threats by being one of the only systems to have a top-to-bottom cybersecurity certification. DeltaV™ v14 will be certified ISASecure SSA Level 1 and IEC 62443 compliant, demonstrating validation by an accredited third party that Emerson developers are trained to write secure code and the system as a whole is hardened against emerging cyber threats.