OT Network Security Advice

Since 9/11 2001 the threat landscape and attitude to risk changed forever. The protection of Critical Network Infrastructure (CNI) has become a passion at IT4A. We have elected to follow the network security guidance of set down UK Government bodies. This section introduces our primary references.

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History of CNI

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90’s

Automation Security was achieved through the obscurity of Serial Communication and Proprietary Protocols.

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1997

Hirschmann (now Belden) introduced the first Industrial Ethernet Switch with Ring Redundancy.

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2001

September 11th 2001 – The world changed, the threat landscape had continued to evolve since this date.

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2003

The UK Government introduces National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre (NISCC).

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2005

Ethernet and IP become the norm for distributed process automation, control and monitoring networks.

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2007

CPNI – Centre for Protection of National Infrastructure was formed from NISCC and NSAC to educate Industry.

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2008

UK Highways Agency introduce CoCo a risk based approach for allowing access to National Road Telecom Services.

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2015

Connect Plus (M25) IT4A deliver FULL Code of Connection for M25 SCADA and Remote Access Networks.

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