As more food and beverage industry operations become automated, security risks, such as data/recipe theft and hacker-caused plant shutdowns, are becoming headaches for engineers. Consequently, operators are always on the lookout for ways to bolster their network protection.
As industrial markets evolve to unlock the promise of the Internet of Things (IoT), Rockwell Automation and Cisco have addressed this need by adding to their Converged Plantwide Ethernet (CPwE) architectures to help operations technology (OT) and information technology (IT) professionals address constantly changing security practices.