Schneider Electric and Waterfall Security partnership to improve cybersecurity

Schneider Electric and Waterfall Security Solutions (Waterfall), which specialises in critical infrastructure and industrial control systems security, have announced a partnership to bring stronger-than-firewall cybersecurity technologies to Schneider Electric customers.

Protecting the safety and reliability of industrial control system networks in the face of increasingly sophisticated cyberattack capabilities is a priority for both Waterfall and Schneider Electric. Welcoming Waterfall to the Schneider Electric Collaborative Automation Partner Program (CAPP) provides the platform needed to offer the company’s cybersecurity protections to Schneider Electric customers in more than 200 countries.

Schneider Electric CAPProgram Deployment Director Loic Regnier commented, “Accomplished technology partner companies like Waterfall Security, recognised in the industry by analysts and customers alike, bring advanced capabilities for our customers. They contribute to help build complete customer solutions by Schneider Electric.”

Starting with the Schneider Electric control system platforms, the Waterfall suite of stronger-than-firewall solutions is claimed to dramatically improve control system network perimeter security and simplify compliance with industrial cybersecurity standards and best practices, ranging from the US power sector’s NERC CIP standards to the cross-industry IEC 62443 and US NIST documents. Waterfall’s Unidirectional Security Gateway technologies are deployed widely in electric power, water, and oil and gas sectors, and the company’s new products, including the FLIP and secure inbound/outbound gateway architecture for electric sector balancing authorities, are widening the scope of stronger-than-firewall perimeter protections.