Why use a Firewall?
Relying on a firewall to reinforce the cybersecurity of an existing architecture brings the following advantages:
The cybersecurity of the whole control networks and devices is reinforced.
Reinforced cybersecurity relies on the strong IPSEC protocol.
Impact on existing architecture and performances is minimum.
When properly configured, assuming the different client machines are not compromised, deploying such device in an architecture allows to mitigate most of vulnerabilities existing in the devices and drastically reduce the attack surface of the different products. In particular it provides a high level of protection against a large number of attacks such as “Man in the middle”, illegal modification of data, sensitive data protection against discovery , and so on...
EAGLE40 Main Features
M580, M340 and legacy Schneider Electric offers are continuously evolving to reinforce high level cyber security protection. However, in some cases relative to fixed design, or backward compatibility, vulnerabilities remain and have to be handled at another system level.
To achieve this goal, different solutions have been evaluated. The EAGLE40 firewall is the preferred solution to cover or mitigate M340 cyber security enforcement remaining issues.
Through powerful IPSEC VPN, EAGLE40 firewall provides expected confidentiality on network traffic to help prevent attacks conducted by "Man in the middle" way. It also ensures the authentication of the sender by helping to prevent from "spoofing" attacks. Message integrity is also reinforced by cryptographic methods and cannot be tampered any more.
Usual filtering capabilities are also available, allowing to control traffic and protocols based on IP, Mac address, and port of network devices.
The EAGLE40 firewall is a scalable product that can be included in multi-point architectures, with rate and bandwidth performances ensuring network transparency.