W-Industries Protects Offshore Platform Using Waterfall Security's Unidirectional Security Gateways
TEL AVIV, Israel, June 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
Waterfall Security Solutions, the leading provider of Unidirectional Security Gateways, and W-Industries, a leading systems integrator headquartered in Houston, TX, today announced the successful installation of Waterfall's Unidirectional Security Gateways at two facilities of a large oil and gas exploration and production firm, both an onshore facility and an offshore platform.
"Waterfall's Unidirectional Gateways are being deployed in more and more industrial sectors by forward-looking organizations to protect business-critical and safety-critical operations," said Lior Frenkel, Co-Founder and CEO of Waterfall Security Solutions. "Offshore platforms present unique challenges for safety and for operational complexity, and we are very happy to have been selected by W-Industries to help with their mission to protect their customer's facilities."
W-Industries uses Waterfall's patented technology to make real-time data available to users on the client firm's business network, without introducing any risk to the offshore platform or onshore facility of a cyber-attack. These business users include production engineers and operations personnel seeking to maximize the productivity of the offshore platform, while simultaneously minimizing their environmental impacts.
"The Waterfall team was very responsive and easy to work with designing and installing the systems for our client," reports Greg Hanson of W-Industries. "Traditional firewall technology ultimately still relies on the robustness of software that allows traffic across the network. But using the Waterfall Gateway gave us the assurance of true one-way server replication from the control network to the business network."
But credit where credit is due - Andrew Ginter, Waterfall's Director of Industrial Security, observes, "The W-Industries and end-user network teams did a great job learning about the Waterfall system and integrating the technology into the existing network infrastructure."
Waterfall Security's Gateways continue to be deployed in an ever-wider spectrum of critical-infrastructure-protection functions. Operations teams appreciate the absolute protection the gateways provide from attacks which originate on external networks. Business teams find significant savings in the use of the gateways, savings due to reduced management and monitoring costs when compared to the costs of conventional firewalls. Business teams also appreciate the simplicity of configuring Unidirectional Gateways: the devices essentially eliminate the possibility of safety or availability breaches due to any of the many errors and omissions which are possible when configuring the complex systems which are modern firewalls.
Waterfall Security Solutions patented cyber security solutions enable oil and gas industry sites to securely connect their critical industrial networks to external networks, securely meeting business needs without exposing these networks to risks and threats of cyber-attacks, cyber terror, and hacking from external, less secure networks. Waterfall's cyber security solutions assist platforms, refineries, utilities and other critical infrastructures to achieve compliance with NERC-CIP, NRC, CFATS and other regulations and standards, as well as cyber-security policies and best practices. Additional business needs secured by way of the Waterfall Gateways include production monitoring, real-time royalty and taxation tracking, and equipment monitoring and maintenance functions.
W-Industries is a fully-owned subsidiary of CSE Global Limited, a leading global technologies company with an international presence spanning the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East and Africa. Over the last decade, CSE has transformed itself to be a truly global organisation with over 1700 employees worldwide.With a keen understanding of client needs coupled with strong domain expertise, W-Industries excels in delivering reliable and cost effective systems integration services and IT solutions that are customized to meet the stringent requirements of our clients, worldwide.
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SOURCE Waterfall Security Solutions Ltd.
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