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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 23, 2010
Gary Keith Law, Georgetown, TX (US);
Nate Kube, Vancouver, CA;
Robert Kent Huba, Georgetown, TX (US);
Brandon Hieb, Cedar Park, TX (US);
David R. Denison, Austin, TX (US);
Cheyenne Hernandez, Quezon, PH;
Gary Keith Law, Georgetown, TX (US);
Nate Kube, Vancouver, CA;
Robert Kent Huba, Georgetown, TX (US);
Brandon Hieb, Cedar Park, TX (US);
David R. Denison, Austin, TX (US);
Cheyenne Hernandez, Quezon, PH;
FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
A Unified Threat Management System (UTMS) for securing network traffic in a process control system may comprise network devices configured to receive network traffic related to the process control system and including a ruleset received from an external source. The ruleset may include one or more rules defining a condition to accept or deny the network traffic received at the network device. The state of the network device may be integrated into the process control system as a process control object or variable, thus allowing the state and other UTMS and component network device parameters and variables to be displayed to an operator at a workstation within a graphical process control system environment. The network devices may also communicate with a perpetual service that proactively supplies the devices with rulesets to meet the latest security threats, threat patterns, and control system vulnerabilities found or predicted to exist within the network.