Throughout the past two decades, I’ve relished the opportunity to guide industrial clients through transformative journeys, helping them revitalize and safeguard their infrastructure investments. As the era of artificial intelligence dawns on expertise, professionals gearing up to harness its potential are poised to revolutionize their domain. The prospect of empowering these experts to confront the complexities they’re facing as they migrate to digital platforms and fortify their networks on a massive scale is truly exhilarating.
Prospects keenly sense the importance of maintaining a secure network, and my conversations consistently reveal that this is their top worry. As a leading provider of secure industrial networking solutions, Cisco is proud to announce that its comprehensive portfolio of DIN rail, rackmount, and IP67-rated switches has achieved IEC 62443-4-1 and 4-2 licensing, solidifying our commitment to ensuring the reliability and integrity of industrial control systems.
This milestone is particularly significant for our patrons, as it ensures our IE portfolio satisfies stringent, globally recognized standards specifically designed to address the pressing cybersecurity concerns affecting Industrial Automation and Management Techniques (IACS). In fact, reliability is crucial for industries such as manufacturing, vitality, and transportation, where downtime can have significant consequences. Halfway through Section 4 of the IEC 62443 standard, specific requirements are outlined for the secure development of products that constitute an IACS. Corporations that develop tools should transparently demonstrate their adherence to strict secure-by-design requirements. The Half-4.2 standard specifies safety requirements for integrating equipment into an industrial control system.
As a producer investing in today’s industrial landscape, the economic community that supports your operations will directly impact your ability to compete and succeed, so it is crucial to consider integrating networking tools into your multi-million-dollar manufacturing machines without delay; failure to do so may result in significant disruptions to production when a security breach occurs.
Selecting business networking tools requires a deliberate strategy.
To achieve sustained effectiveness and productivity, it’s crucial to consider the ongoing impact of economic variables, network infrastructure, and entry points on your operations, as well as how these components will interact with machine-to-machine communication and management systems? As your needs adapt, prioritizing modular, adaptable components provides a foundation for seamless growth and effortless incorporation into your ecosystem, paving the way for future innovations. As industrial operations increasingly become vulnerable to cyberattacks, it is crucial to select tools equipped with robust security features that conform to stringent cybersecurity regulations, such as those prevalent in Europe, to safeguard sensitive information and critical infrastructure. How will you determine that the deployed tools are safe enough to protect your operations and conform to regulatory requirements?
The ISA/IEC 62443 standard provides a framework for evaluating the safety of industrial control systems.
The standard defines the essential requirements that industrial components must satisfy in order to be considered safe. As a direct outcome, the ISA and IEC’s collaborative effort has led to widespread recognition of this standard as a globally accepted framework for ensuring the security of industrial control systems.
Cisco and ISA/IEC 62443-4 compliance
At Cisco, we ensure that our networking products adhere to the rigorous CSDL process, which embodies a secure-by-design approach throughout every stage – from product planning and development to monitoring and end-of-life management. The CSDL course is licensed to adapt to International Society of Automation (ISA) and International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) standard 62443-4-1 requirements, thereby ensuring that all Cisco products conform to these specifications. This commitment demonstrates our unwavering dedication to delivering secure and robust industrial network solutions to our customers.
When Cisco Industrial Ethernet switches hold an ISA/IEC 62443-4-2 license, this indicates that their safety-in-depth design meets the stringent requirements of this international standard. Cisco continuously refines its approach to identifying and mitigating risks, striving to render its switches as secure as possible. Safeguarding lives and property with ease, our switches exceed rigorous standards to join trusted communities nationwide.
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In a crowded marketplace for industrial networking solutions, customers may struggle to make informed comparisons between different products. ISA/IEC 62443 is widely regarded as the industry standard benchmark for evaluating and comparing industrial automation cybersecurity measures. With the entire Cisco business switch portfolio now certified to meet ISA/IEC 62443-4-1 and 4-2 standards, we’re simplifying the process for you to standardize on a unified family of entry, aggregation, and distribution switches that comprehensively address all your use cases.
Despite taking every precaution, you must still ensure that none of these measures inadvertently enable vulnerabilities in otherwise secure operations when configuring machine builder options. The RFP shall require compliance with the ISA/IEC 62443-4 standard’s cybersecurity certifications, mandating that all machine builder partners implement robust security measures throughout their solutions, specifically utilizing Cisco Industrial Ethernet switches to ensure reliable and secure connectivity.
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