Secomea SiteManager 1149 and SiteManager 3349

Secomea (Secure Communications Made Easy) has announced the expansion of the SiteManager range with two Wi-Fi models: SiteManager 1149 and SiteManager 3349. Adding onboard Wi-Fi provides users more options to customise their secure remote access and M2M needs.

The end-to-end solution comes preconfigured for the user’s particular site and equipment. It comprises three components: SiteManager, the hardware interface, featuring a WAN uplink (3G optional), LAN ports and serial ports; GateManager, a cloud-based authentication server; and LinkManager client software, which provides the licence that the GateManager must find, in association with a password, to grant access.

Security confidence is provided by defence in depth, embracing AES/SSL encryption, two-factor authentication and a firewall that filters traffic based on the nominated destination devices.

The centrally managed authentication can be hosted by the user or the supplier via a cloud service that makes the secure connection between authorised users and devices. There is no need to worry about IP addresses, VPN protocols, TCP ports or encryption settings, a common source of error — this is all built in.

Users are connected to a site device using their own access software as though they were directly connected. Secomea provides direct access to PLCs, HMIs, drives or almost anything with an ethernet, serial or USB data port — and with both the LAN and 3G uplinks, the failover function ensures the connection is maintained.