Palo Alto Networks announced the expansion of its technology partnership with Siemens to improve the security of mission-critical networks and prevent cyberattacks on critical infrastructure. The two companies will integrate Palo Alto Networks VM series virtual next-generation firewalls and the Siemens Ruggedcom multi-service platform to achieve continuously scalable hardware, enabling customers to extend consistent security policies and policies across IT, critical OT, and industrial control systems (ICS). Visibility infrastructure.

Palo Alto Networks VM series virtual firewalls provide security, can be seamlessly deployed in any virtual or cloud environment, and are highly scalable. VM series virtual firewalls use native integrated security services to protect all traffic, including encrypted traffic based on complete context, including user identity, application identity, and device identity, and block modern network threats. Centralized management can easily extend protection and security to any industrial system where the Siemens Ruggedcom RX1500 multi-service platform is deployed.

The Ruggedcom APE1808 for Ruggedcom RX1500 multi-service platform is a compact but powerful industrial application hosting platform suitable for third-party applications, enabling industrial customers to protect HMIs, engineering workstations and field devices located in harsh environments. The VM series virtual firewalls supported by ML act as perimeter gateways in these scenarios, and use segmentation and policies to allow operators to control applications that communicate across different subnets to prevent lateral threats from moving and achieve compliance. In other cases, Ruggedcom X1500 equipped with APE1808 can be deployed to provide application-level monitoring for control centers running SCADA systems.

For more information on the industrial IoT gateway and router market, please refer to ARC’s latest market update