Siemens and McAfee work together on security for production
9 april 2014
And the, a division of Intel Security, will together provide security solutions for manufacturing companies. The solutions must therefore provide protection against the rapidly evolving global cyber threats. This, both companies announced at the Hannover Fair 2014. Siemens and McAfee have been working together since 2011 and are expanding their partnership further. Manufacturing companies face new challenges such as growing cyberthreats. These cyber threats are also, increasingly diverse. It is increasingly difficult to counter these threats effectively. Manufacturing companies often lack the resources needed to effectively respond to security incidents and have no access to threat information to enable proactive measures. Expand Portfolio Partnering with McAfee Siemens can extend its protection proposition with various solutions including Next Generation Firewall SecurityInformation and Event Management (SIEM), Endpoint Security and Global Threat Intelligence (GTI). The products are part of the Siemens Managed Security Service. In addition, Siemens is using the McAfee solutions offer professional services in the field of industrial security. Manufacturing companies will gain greater insight and control at the plant level, while the risk is reduced to intellectual property theft.