Tofino™ Security Solution beta tests a success
MTL and Byres Security Inc. are pleased to announce the Tofino™ Industrial Security Solution has successfully completed Beta testing and is ready for sale.....
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TOFINO™ SECURITY SOLUTION BETA TESTS A SUCCESS
Oct 2, 2007 - MTL and Byres Security Inc. are pleased to announce the Tofino™ Industrial Security Solution has successfully completed Beta testing and is ready for sale. The product will be demonstrated at the ISA 2007 Conference and Exhibition in Houston TX October 2nd to 4th at Booth 1764.
The Tofino™ Industrial Security Solution offers SCADA and process control companies a layered security solution for their industrial systems by deploying low-cost security appliances directly in front of each control device (or group devices) that needs protection. These appliances provide protection directly in front of the critical edge device. This allows a “defense-in-depth” strategy to be used, so even if a hacker or virus manages to get through the main corporate firewall, they will still be faced with an array of SCADA-focused security devices that need to be breached before any damage can be done to the control system itself.
To prove the concepts on which the Tofino™ Industrial Security Solution is based, a number of field demonstrations at key industry sites in the hydrocarbon, food, and other industries are in the final stages and confirm that unlike traditional IT firewall or encryption solutions, Tofino™ easily meets the environmental needs, staff capabilities and industry requirement for an Industrial Ethernet security solution. Its patent pending zero configuration features make it so simple to use, that electricians and instrumentation technicians can install it without any specific training. Yet at the same time, company security specialists can confidentially monitor the system from anywhere in the world, reacting to threats in a coordinated company-wide manner. Best of all, Tofino™ is much more than a firewall, since its dynamically loadable security modules can also provide encryption, intrusion detection and control protocol-aware security solutions tailored to specific plant floor devices.
The Beta tests have proven that with Tofino™, a true “defense-in-depth” security solution suitable for installation in the plant environment is now available. Tofino™ provides the needed layers of protection to the plant environment communications networks by protecting the system by adding many more layers of security down to the field controller level of the network.
The success of the product meeting this target requirement is confirmed by one of the Beta test sites comment:
"Tofino exceeded our expectations during our pilot testing. We threw our best hacking and DoS ammunition at the protected PLC and Tofino blocked every attempt, while still allowing authorized controls communication to flow unimpeded. Our operators never saw a difference. Tofino can, and does, provide the necessary protection for our plant devices" Manager of Plant Systems, Major US Food Company.