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Effective solutions for Smart factory
Challenges
Solution

Effective solutions for Smart factory

One of the main targets on the development agenda of factories is increasing output and reducing costs at the same time. To make this possible, enterprises actively deploy automated production control and other IT-based tools, for example, specialized systems designed for managing manufacturing infrastructure components and monitoring their condition.

Modern information systems serving the needs of manufacturing players, including automated process control systems (APCS), require a wider range of technologies compared to classical information systems. The life cycle of technical equipment in manufacturing systems is much longer than that in corporate infrastructure — 20 years vs. 5 on average.

In manufacturing, any operations shutdown, even if planned, may result in significant losses. And incidents involving failure of key components of production systems may lead to huge fines, contract terminations, and in some cases, even casualties and environmental disasters.

Factories are some of the most attractive targets for cyber attacks. The goals of cybercriminals are obvious: industrial espionage, severe reputational damage, production shutdown, or terrorism. For business owners, any attack on their production system may result in significant financial losses, serious reputational damage, and tangible time wastes.

Challenges

Factories own complex service networks to support their manufacturing process. Such networks may have distinguishing features that have to do with organizational history and enterprise characteristics. The IT infrastructure of each enterprise is unique and requires a special approach.

Yet, we believe that all manufacturing players have to deal with common information security challenges:

Stolen and blocked confidential data. Such data may include, for example, diverse know-how, process descriptions, product release and manufacturing development plans.
Service network penetration. The architecture of service networks has specific features which make them highly vulnerable to penetrations from the corporate network. This is why many organizations still choose to disallow access from corporate to service networks. But this will not stop an internal attacker who can use local access to penetrate the service network.
Disruptions in management of manufacturing IT components. When it comes to infrastructure management, it is relatively easy to do something wrong and cause a system failure. That said, finding the reasons behind such failures may prove quite difficult.

Solution

Most attacks aimed at gaining access to corporate IT infrastructure target access control systems — in particular, the subsystem responsible for identification, authentication, and access control.

Axidian solutions can help, among other things, address the following tasks relevant for industry players:

Strong authentication to protect access to critical IT infrastructure components: Axidian Access and Axidian Key mobile app.
Biometric authentication and integration with Access Monitoring and Control System (AMCS) to eliminate threats related to local connections: Axidian Access.
Privileged user control, including monitoring the activities of APCS engineers and contractor representatives, to prevent unauthorized access and mitigate the impact of failure: Axidian Privilege.
Minimal interference with critical components of manufacturing infrastructure to prevent unexpected failures and disruptions: Axidian Access and Axidian Privilege.

Axidian offers reliable solutions to protect your business from serious information security threats based on a wide range of access protection and management tools. In addition, these solutions can help improve the performance of your information security professionals and save their time.

Solutions for Smart factory

Replace passwords with biometric authentication

Access information systems with RFID cards

Protect passwords of privileged accounts

Log events and investigate incidents

Secure privileged remote access to corporate resourses

Secure vendor access to corporate infrastructure

Migrate from legacy PKI solutions

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Andy Woo

Regional Director of Pacific Tech

At Pacific Tech, we are continuously evolving and bringing new solutions to our partners and customers in the region. We are delighted to be partnering with Axidian. With Axidian, we found a comprehensive access management solution which perfectly complements the growing population of Singapore work-from-home workers. As a leading cyber security solution provider, this strategic partnership is perfect for our two companies.

KC KuppingerCole Report

Executive view

Axidian’s innovative approach towards designing its whole product portfolio as a highly modular open application platform allows the customers to pick and choose the modules as needed and grow in the future as their business needs expand. Even out of the box, Axidian CertiFlow provides comprehensive yet convenient management capabilities for both administrators and end users.

Michael Bürger

Founder & Sales Partner at EU-HUB Network

Since approximately 5 years now I’m working with Axidian quite successfully. First as my vendor client and next as a trusted innovative software partner. Now we are re-selling Axidian software as a Distributor for the EU and beyond. Often I met Axidian CEOs, CTO, Product Management, Partner Managers and System Engineers, on the the phone and even in person in London and Munich and always my feeling was that this is are smart people, an excellent organized company, straight forward thinking and | don’t have any doubt that together we will be very successful this decade in the 2020s on everything we target.

Leo Querubin

Executive Director for Business Development of Pointwest Technologies Corporation

The products of Axidian, like Axidian Access, a software for strong and multi-factor authentication (MFA), can provide the structural changes that force everyone to follow necessary cybersecurity procedures. Customers get the best of both worlds — the world-class cybersecurity products of Axidian and the experience and expertise of the local cybersecurity landscape of Pointwest.

Volkan Duman

Information Technologies General Manager at vMind

As a result of the long-term laboratory tests and studies that we conducted, we believe that Axidian products should certainly be on the Turkish market. Thanks to our partnership with Axidian, we sought to expand the access control and certificate management market, which is located in a narrow profile in the country, as well as add value by transferring technology to our country. When we compare Axidian products with similar products, we can safely say that they contain much more different features and are more inclusive.

Marko Pust

Director of OSI.SI

We have a long partnership with Axidian for more than 2 years already. I can confidently say that Axidian CertiFlow is one of the best and technologically enhanced products for managing digital certificates and smart cards on the EU market. This product has a number of unique features such as Client Agent and Axidian AirCard Enterprise network-attached smart card that are highly valued by our customers. One of the customers said that Axidian CertiFlow brought automation and visibility to their PKI life.

Heng Lie

Director of Synnex Metrodata Indonesia

I believe that Axidian Access is an excellent solution for many of our clients. It manages access to all information systems of the enterprise and protects companies from internal and external cyber threats. It is a flexible platform combining different authentication scenarios and methods.

Sergey Yeliseyev

X–Infotech Owner, Business Development Director, Government eID solutions

Axidian is the company of professionals in the field of information security. They provide top-level solutions for PKI management and access control to corporate resources. We recommend this company as a reliable partner.