Waterfall Security Solutions Joins McAfee Security Innovation Alliance

TEL AVIV, Israel, February 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --

Waterfall Security Solutions® today announced that it has joined the McAfee® Security Innovation Alliance (SIA) partner program. Under the auspices of the McAfee SIA program, Waterfall will integrate its widely-adopted Unidirectional Security Gateway™ solutions with McAfee products, including McAfee® Application Control and McAfee® ePolicy Orchestrator® platform, to allow Waterfall solutions to report to enterprise-wide instances of McAfee products from secure, unidirectionally-isolated industrial networks. These integrations are in addition to the already-proven McAfee NitroView® SIEM aggregation capabilities in the Waterfall for NitroView product.

"Utilities, chemical plants and other critical industrial infrastructure sites are not content to be islands of automation. These sites are demanding that enterprise-wide deployments of security and monitoring systems extend into even the most secure industrial enclaves," says Andrew Ginter, the Director of Industrial Security at Waterfall. "This partnership will enable critical infrastructures and industrial sites to communicate security events and information out of secure industrial networks and into enterprise-spanning McAfee systems, while mitigating network-connectivity risks to the safety and availability of industrial control systems."

Waterfall's Gateway products replicate industrial servers and information from industrial networks out to business networks, using hardware-enforced unidirectional communications. The hardware permits no communications or network attack back into the industrial network through Waterfall's Unidirectional Gateways: no denial-of-service attacks, no worms, no advanced threats with remote control tools, not even password errors or omissions are permitted. The gateway hardware has no physical data path that would permit any communications back into a protected network.

Waterfall's existing NitroView SIEM replication solution permits plant-wide NitroView SIEM instances to report into enterprise-wide SIEM installations. The instance of the SIEM in the plant collects, reports, and manages information from plant systems, and makes that information available to plant personnel. The enterprise NitroView SIEM instance receives the unidirectionally-transmitted plant SIEM information, and provides enterprise-wide visibility, analysis and correlation capabilities.

"McAfee is committed to securing critical infrastructures, including industrial networks and safety-critical networks," said Ed Barry, vice president of the Security Innovation Alliance at McAfee. "We're excited to partner with Waterfall to bring the benefits of integrated security solutions to critical industries relying on unidirectionally-isolated networks."

Lior Frenkell, CEO and Co-Founder of Waterfall Security Solutions adds that "Waterfall is pleased to partner with McAfee, and to join the McAfee Security Innovation Alliance.  McAfee has demonstrated real leadership in working to improve the security of industrial systems and networks. Our decision to work with McAfee reflects the growing demand for McAfee solutions on the industrial networks that Waterfall equipment protects."

McAfee NitroView protects critical information and infrastructure. NitroView reduces risk exposure and increases network and information availability by removing the scalability and performance limitations of security information management. By partnering NitroView's industry-leading analytical tools with the leading solutions in Industrial Control Systems (ICS) and management -- such as OSIsoft's PI System™ -- NitroView identifies, correlates and remediates threats to enterprise, SCADA and distributed control systems in minutes instead of hours, allowing organizations to quickly mitigate risks to their information and infrastructure.

 McAfee Application Control software provides an effective way to block unauthorized applications and code on servers, corporate desktops, and fixed-function devices. This centrally managed whitelisting solution uses a dynamic trust model and innovative security features that thwart advanced persistent threats - without requiring signature updates or labor-intensive list management.

The McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator platform is the first that allows both enterprises and governments to centrally manage security and compliance products from multiple vendors, offering unprecedented cost savings and return on investment. With more than 45,000 customers and managing more than 60 million PCs and servers, this unique platform is helping McAfee SIA partners to extend their reach and create complementary functionality.

For additional information about the McAfee Security Innovation Alliance, visit: http://www.mcafee.com/sia.

About Waterfall: Waterfall Security Solutions Ltd. is a leading provider of Unidirectional Security Gateways™ and data diodes for industrial networks, SCADA systems, remote monitoring systems and isolated networks. Waterfall Gateways protect the safety and availability of critical infrastructure networks absolutely from network attacks originating on external networks. Waterfall's security solutions make it straightforward for utilities and critical infrastructures to achieve compliance with NERC-CIP, NRC, NIST and other regulations as well as with cyber-security best practices. Waterfall's offerings include support for leading industrial applications, such as: OSIsoft PI™ Historian, GE Proficy™ iHistorian, the Siemens SIMATIC™ and the GE OSM™ remote monitoring platforms, and for leading industrial protocols, such as: OPC, Modbus, DNP3 and ICCP.

McAfee and ePolicy Orchestrator are trademarks or registered trademarks of McAfee, Inc.

For more information, please visit our website at http://www.waterfall-security.com

SOURCE Waterfall Security Solutions Ltd.