OT/IT Security Solutions from genua
Industry 4.0 thrives on OT/IT convergence, openness and networking. Find out how you can protect your safety, availability and valuable business assets through a holistic security strategy and trusted solutions.
genua offers comprehensive knowledge and expertise in securing networks and communication processes in automated production systems. We engineer efficient, scalable and reliable OT security solutions, especially with regard to remote access and maintenance, industrial cloud solutions, at the interface between IT and OT, for anomaly detection in networks, and for highly secure data extraction.
Our security experts help industrial companies to design a secure OT/IT infrastructure, select and implement OT security products for network security, and provide training and on-site support. Security technologies from genua meet the most stringent security requirements, can be easily integrated into existing networks and offer non-compromising, BSI-approved quality "Made in Germany".
Reasons Why
IT Security Made in Germany
For us, the label "IT Security Made in Germany" means combining quality, performance and service at a world-class level with a company culture whose pillars are integrity, customer orientation, sustainability and loyalty to location.
Maximum Security
genua meets the highest national and international security standards, a fact documented by, among other things, certificates and approvals. Our VPN solutions, for example, are approved by the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) up to the German classification level RESTRICTED (Classified – For official use only).
Stability and Reliability
genua considers itself to be part of the IT security ecosystem in Germany. As a company of Bundesdruckerei, we combine long-term, strategic and financial stability with innovation and research intensity.
Effective Solutions From a Single Source
genua accompanies public organizations and authorities from the conception of the IT security infrastructure to the selection and implementation of the right IT security products and support during an accelerated approval process.
Quality Without Compromise
The solutions from genua are developed on the basis of certified quality management processes. Our QM certification verifies the highest quality standards for products, services and processes. Furthermore, genua uses the IT security certificates of the BSI for periodic quality assurance by an external, recognized testing authority.
OT/IT Convergence: Safety and Security Challenges
A failure-free production process is critical to the success of any manufacturer. However, with increasing digitalization, production environments are becoming a lucrative target for cyber attacks. When classic data processing and production environments are networked in the context of Industry 4.0, then the challenge lies in combining the different requirements and objectives of the two domains in a single security concept.
The key problem is: A direct networking of OT and IT exposes the vast attack surface of the OT to a potentially insecure IT. This endangers reliable production and even safety, and thus human life.
In many cases, these are legacy, often proprietary, partially isolated (stand-alone) systems that are networked via fieldbuses with other computers within the same machine or with external sensors and actuators. It is essential to reliably protect such production systems from external and internal attacks without compromising performance or functional safety.
In particular, the opening of an internal OT network for remote maintenance access or subsequently installed data interfaces used for predictive maintenance creates potential gateways for attackers.