Schneider Electric Systems USA, Inc.

Zakarya Drias

Briane Ritchie

Stephen Richard Owen Beadle

Andrew Kling

PavanKumar Malayanur

System and method of securing a process control instrument of a process control system. An authorization server is configured to authenticate the process control instrument based on a unique secure code provided to the server in response to the process control instrument entering an enhanced secure mode as determined by a switch setting. In response to being authenticated in the enhanced secure mode, the process control instrument is configured to operate in a configuration state in which an authorized user is granted access to configure the security details of the process control instrument.

Enhanced security of process control instruments

A self-adaptive security system for a control system executing a plurality of Industrial of Internet of Things (IIoT) applications. A security processor communicatively coupled to the control system assesses a current security posture of the control system and determines if the current security posture is within or outside an acceptable risk tolerance as a function of a current threat landscape affecting the control system. In response to determining the current security posture is outside the acceptable risk tolerance, the security processor executes a risk weighting model to determine a modified cybersecurity strategy and autonomously executes the modified cybersecurity strategy to improve the current security posture of the control system relative to changes in the current threat landscape. The security processor also executes a digital twin to simulate operations of the control system and assesses a potential impact of the modified cybersecurity strategy on the operations before executing it.

Self-adaptive cybersecurity for IIoT

Systems and methods of providing industrial system cybersecurity event detection and corresponding response are described. The systems and methods utilize various end point sensors already available in an industrial control system and an associated monitoring process to detect cybersecurity and other security threats based on data collected by the sensors. The cybersecurity monitoring process may be trained with sensor data patterns and behaviors for known threats to recognize potentially malicious activity. Such a process may also learn to recognize and be trained on new threats and may incorporate each new threat to stay current with evolving industrial threats. This allows an enterprise to utilize its existing industrial infrastructure to detect and act upon a variety of threats to an industrial system with little or no interference or interruption of existing industrial processes.

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