Industrial control system (ICS)/SCADA equipment giant Siemens today made its first foray into the endpoint security space with a new collaboration product and service offering aimed at devices sitting in industrial operational technology (OT) networks.
Siemens and machine learning (ML) endpoint security vendor SparkCognition teamed up on an ML-based endpoint protection product and service for devices on plant networks. The so-called DeepArmour Industrial software initially runs on Windows-based devices, and it was built off of SparkCognition's enterprise version of the endpoint security tool for detecting known and previously unknown threats. Siemens will provide custom integration, installation, and security alert analysis for plant networks.
"We'll take alarms into our environment, analyze them, and help them think about how to respond to any threats," says Leo Simonovich, head of industrial cybersecurity at Siemens. "The way we think about this is as a technology-delivery-as-a-service," he says.
Siemens started doubling down on managed security services three years ago, adding third-party security vendor technologies to its networking monitoring and security services such as DarkTrace, PAS, and Tenable. Security services, especially cloud-based ones, provide new sources of revenue for legacy ICS vendors such as Siemens.
Simonovich says Siemens' endpoint partnership with SparkCognition aims to address a longstanding problem of tracking and protecting endpoints in OT networks. The goal is to give OT networks more visibility into endpoint devices running on them and any threats that land on or originate from those devices.
The product initially supports only endpoints running Windows 2000 and later versions, which includes programmable logic controller HMIs (human machine interfaces) on those platforms. T ..
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