Claroty and Rockwell Automation unveil security integration

Claroty has announced a new integration between its Continuous Threat Detection (CTD) solution and Rockwell Automation’s FactoryTalk AssetCenter. The aim is to allow joint customers to automatically discover, protect and manage the operational and IIoT technology in their industrial networks.

The CTD Connector for AssetCentre fuses CTD’s operational technology (OT) visibility with AssetCentre’s data management capabilities to automate, optimise and centralise inventory. It brings together CTD’s risk and vulnerability assessment and correlation with AssetCentre’s backup and recovery coverage for industrial networks, and includes flexible on-premise, cloud and hybrid deployment options.

“Many critical industrial assets are at risk due to enterprises’ limited abilities in inventory management, risk and vulnerability correlation, and asset backup,” said Grant Geyer, Chief Product Officer of Claroty. “Visibility is the foundation to every risk management program in the industrial economy. With this solution, asset-intensive organisations can be confident that their OT asset inventory is comprehensive and protected against a variety of cybersecurity and business continuity risks that threaten resiliency in today’s digital and connected enterprise.”

Claroty says the CTD Connector for AssetCentre expands the CTD visibility ecosystem with a centralised, fully automated OT asset inventory across the entire OT environment, including the hardware, firmware, model, rack slot, IP, vendor and related details for all assets — even tough-to-identify nested devices and those located at levels 0–2.

It aims to protect the most critical assets and help minimise downtime by continuously assessing risks and monitoring for vulnerabilities, automatically correlating this information with the assets in the OT environment to provide tailored mitigation and remediation guidance for all risks and vulnerabilities affecting those assets.

It also expands disaster recovery coverage by revealing any critical assets not included in the disaster recovery plan, enabling users to add those assets and validate asset backup.

“The combined technical prowess of Claroty CTD and Rockwell FactoryTalk AssetCentre gives customers visibility into their OT assets and the vulnerabilities and risks facing those assets, as well as full confidence that all critical assets are backed up,” said Jason Wright, Director of Digital Design and Visualisation Apps at Rockwell Automation. “Through greater visibility into and protection of OT assets, organisations can improve uptime, productivity, quality, employee safety and regulatory compliance.”

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