Yokogawa has received Achilles Level 1 + certification for three different Vnet/IP controllers, the AFV10D, AVR10D and SSC50D. The testing was conducted in February 2007 by Wurldtech Security Inc. in Vancouver, Canada.
The basic security policy for a production control system (DCS) is to have multiple security layers to protect it against cyber attack. The Achilles Level 1 + tests were conducted because it is very important to ensure the end-point security of the controllers.
Tests were performed using the Achilles Assurance Platform and involved a variety of Ethernet and TCP/IP level and Vnet/IP protocol level cyber attacks. More than thirty million different patterns of vulnerability tests were run directly on the controllers to verify that they were secure.
In these tests, a DoS attack was launched after the test platform searched the controller information. While the DoS attack continued, at a certain level, various test patterns were run. The platform also confirmed via OPC communication whether the controllers were functioning normally during the attacks.
Yokogawa proudly announces that the controllers listed above passed all the tests without the assistance of external resources such as fiewalls.
Viewing PDF Files require Adobe Reader.
| 
