In response to the increase in attacks on industrial control systems that power utilities, industries and critical infrastructure systems, Norway-based Norman ASA is launching a product designed to protect SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) systems against cyber attacks from malware such as trojans, worms and viruses—ones like stuxnet.
The new offering, Norman SCADA Protection (NSP) is a part of the Norman Network Protection (NNP) product family, an anti-malware protection system designed to provide security to corporate and industrial networks.
“SCADA environments are without a doubt one of the biggest challenges in security today,” said Audun Lodemel, Norman’s Vice President of Marketing. “Many industries are poorly protected against cyber threats to their infrastructure.”
The SCADA protection solution works by being deployed at the network perimeter and helps prevent ICS systems from being infected by malware coming across the network. Industrial Control System computers are also protected against infection by unsecured portable storage devices (USB drive, external HDs, etc.), that could intentionally or unintentionally expose systems to attack code like the Stuxnet.
A typical SCADA installation could run between $40-50,000 for the solution, a Norman spokesperson told SecurityWeek. General availability will be in the second quarter of 2012, and Norman said that it has already landed a large global company as its first customer.
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