Department of Homeland Security Selects Waterfall Security Solutions' Technology to be part of its new National Cyber Security Test-bed at the INL
TEL-AVIV, Israel, April 1, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Waterfall's Unidirectional Security Gateways were selected to be an integral part of DHS's Control Systems Security Program new cyber security test-bed. This test-bed, located and operated by the Idaho National Labs (INL), is an environment where control and monitoring systems, including Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems, energy management systems, process control systems (PCS), distributed control systems, and third-party security components are evaluated for cyber security vulnerabilities.
The Control Systems Security Program (CSSP) of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is tasked with the responsibility of reducing vulnerabilities in Industrial Control Systems that support and manage the United States critical infrastructures.
Control systems underlie a significant part of the nation's critical infrastructure and are vulnerable to cyber and physical attacks by adversaries that could result in loss of life, severe economic impact, or both.
Waterfall's technology, accompanied with its multitude of available Waterfall Connectors, provides out-of-the-box integration and support for the majority of industrial applications, historian systems, and SCADA protocols. "Waterfall's technology is the natural selection for DHS's test-bed environment. Waterfall bestows its unparalleled security to many of the applications and systems used today by the nation's critical infrastructure. Our continuous R&D efforts ensure that future industrial and control systems and applications introduced to the market by the various vendors will be supported by Waterfall as well, and this will be available for DHS's test-bed continuous activities," said Lior Frenkel, Co-Founder and CEO of Waterfall Security Solutions.
About Waterfall Security Solutions:
Waterfall Security Solutions Ltd. is the leading provider of Unidirectional Security Gateways and data diodes for Control networks, SCADA systems, Remote Monitoring and Segregated Networks. Waterfall's security solutions assist Utilities and Critical Infrastructures to easily and comfortably achieve compliance with NERC-CIP, NRC, NIST and other regulations as well as cyber-security best practices.
Waterfall's products have been deployed in many utilities, critical national infrastructures, mission critical environments and homeland security agencies throughout North America, Europe and Israel. Waterfall's offerings include support to leading industrial applications, such as: OSIsoft PI(TM) Historian, GE Proficy(TM) iHistorian, the Siemens SIMATIC(TM) and the GE OSM(TM) remote monitoring platforms, and leading industrial protocols, such as: OPC, Modbus, DNP3 and ICCP.
For more information, please visit our website at http://www.waterfall-security.com
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