The New Face of Manufacturing: Manufacturers Team Up with Cybersecurity Providers to Tackle Threats

The recent announcement of a partnership between one of the world’s leading industrial automation products manufacturers and a global leader in network security to develop new manufacturing security solutions should come as no surprise. Manufacturers boast some of the world’s most creative and innovative problem-solvers, and when a threat to the industry exists, manufacturers will inherently respond.

Earlier this year, the Siemens Industry Sector announced a partnership with McAfee, a division of Intel Security, to enhance the security offerings for industrial customers to protect against rapidly evolving global cyberthreats. This partnership will take advantage of the depth of both companies’ security portfolios and further enhances the joint effort started in 2011.

“Siemens provides deep experience in automation across numerous industries,” said Michael Fey, worldwide chief technology officer at McAfee. “By combining forces, McAfee, Intel and Siemens can drive the adoption of connected, managed and secured solutions at the plant level in order to help industrial customers to manage their security while bringing the uptime and reliability of the plant operations to a higher level. This collaboration should allow us to address the unique requirements of Industrial Control System customers for the operations technology market thus providing a complete security view across the entire company.”

The companies also announced they are developing a line of security products designed to enhance security offerings for the process and factory automation industry.