OT and IoT security company Nozomi Networks has announced the industry’s first OT and IoT security sensor that runs embedded in Mitsubishi Electric programmable logic controllers (PLC).
A PLC is an industrial digital computer designed to automate manufacturing processes, ensuring high reliability and ease of programming. Widely used across various industries, PLCs improve operational efficiency by providing real-time processing and control in harsh environments. The PLC market is expected to reach USD22 billion by 2030 as more industries embrace and expand their use of automation, driving the need for better control-level cybersecurity
Nozomi’s embedded security sensor, Arc Embedded, offers security and operations teams previously unavailable visibility at the process level of their industrial automation equipment and field assets, according to Nozomi. It also allows teams to analyse and deter process-level threats and malicious user activity without impacting current resources or disrupting mission-critical networks. As a result, organisations benefit from greater operational resilience and uptime, reduced cyberrisk, and better compliance.
“Arc Embedded can transform how CISOs manage and protect critical infrastructure, extending security to and through industrial control systems, down to the field assets they manage,” said Nozomi Networks Co-founder and CPO Andrea Carcano. “Customers in various industries can feel confident deploying Arc Embedded in Mitsubishi Electric PLCs. This is a revolutionary approach that makes it possible to extend in-depth real-time monitoring of assets, network traffic, anomaly detection, and threat identification directly to process controls. Ultimately, it improves the safety, security, and reliability of the automation processes we depend upon and sparks the imagination for what’s possible when advanced security is embedded at the device level.”
Arc Embedded on Mitsubishi Electric PLCs delivers:
- Real-time visibility and security from the network endpoint to the manufacturing floor to improve data integrity, more accurately detect PLC anomalies and detect unauthorised access.
- AI-powered protection to provide continuous monitoring for real-time learning, faster responses to security incidents, and more robust detection of known and unknown vulnerabilities.
- High levels of visibility and protection for devices connected to the PLC “backplane” to understand module health and status, normal and abnormal communications patterns, all configuration changes, and firmware integrity.
Arc Embedded is now available for Mitsubishi Electric iQ-R series PLCs via a subscription-based model from Mitsubishi Electric, Nozomi Networks, and the network of Nozomi Networks channel partners.
