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Invensys Taps Partner to Monitor Cyber-Attacks

Posted on Thursday, December 13, 2007 4:41:00 PM       Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox                            Digg This Article   Add to Delicious

Abstract:Working with global IT services provider Integralis, the automation specialist offers customers a managed service to help thwart cyber-attacks on their process control systems and infrastructure.
Keywords:Stem cyber attacks, fight cyber attacks
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To fill what it saw as a gap in its portfolio of cyber-security offerings for process manufacturers, Invensys Process Systems this week announced a new managed service in conjunction with global IT security company Integralis.

The managed service offering helps shore up Invensys' four-tiered approach to cyber-security engagements for process control systems, which includes planning and assessment; architecture modeling and design; modernization and implementation; and management and optimization.

In particular, the partnership with Integralis bolsters the fourth area — managing ongoing security threats and optimizing a system's defensive capabilities, according to Doug Clifton, Invensys' global cyber security program leader.

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