Moxa is pleased to announce that it has achieved IEC 62443-four-1 certification regarding cybersecurity standards. The certification test and audit was performed by LCIE Bureau Veritas and issued by the IECEE certification body. Moxa has always been involved in the cybersecurity industry and was one of the first companies globally to achieve IEC 4-1-4 certification from the world's leading provider of security assessment services. compliance and certification. The IEC standard 1 part XNUMX-XNUMX defines a development life cycle for developing and sustaining secure products used in industrial automation and control systems.
The Moxa Certificate
The IEC 62443-four-1 certificate confirms that Moxa has implemented a secure-by-design methodology from day one of the product development process, which encompasses global development lifecycle management and patch management. This certificate further proves Moxa's ability to identify and respond to vulnerabilities and work together with its customers to mitigate their dangers. According to the 2020 Global Survey on IT and OT Convergence by IDC, the primary motivations for IT/OT convergence are increasing security and operational performance by reducing costs and improving quality at the same time. Another key observation from the report is that globally, 48,8 percent of IT and OT management owners rate security as the top obstacle to IT/OT convergence.
This point highlights the importance that OT companies attach to security when adopting Industry 0 or the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) to significantly increase operational efficiency and productivity. “In response to the concerns of our service customers, we at Moxa have been actively examining the security requirements of the IEC 62443 standards going back to when they were still being developed in 2016,” says Samuel Chiu, Managing Director of Moxa Networking Co. Ltd. “By joining the rigorous testing process of the IEC 62443 standards, Moxa not only provides industry-class solutions but, in addition to this, ensures that security is part of the DNA of its reliable network solutions throughout the entire product development process.
We give our customers the confidence that they can connect to their valuable assets with Moxa solutions and trust that they will keep their operations running without incident.” Moxa has also followed changing cybersecurity best practices to ensure that our solutions work in harmony with the latest technological innovations in edge devices, while at the same time mitigating the latest cyber threats.
One of the latest best practices is 1/2 shared in the article Enhancing ICS Cybersecurity in the Software Development Lifecycle. Improvement of ICS cybersecurity in the software development life cycle. This article, which appears on the ISA Global Cybersecurity Alliance blog, was facilitated by SZ Lin, Assistant Project Manager in Moxa's Corporate Technology and Research division. Lin was the first person in Taiwan to receive the ISA/IEC XNUMX Cybersecurity Specialist Certificate. Apart from Lin, Felipe Sabino Costa, who today is an ISA cybersecurity instructor and an expert in Moxa industrial cybersecurity for LATAM, also pointed out certain key criteria in his article Perro a Solution Provider Handle Industrial Cybersecurity? Eight Questions to Ask.
Can a solution provider manage industrial cybersecurity? Let's ask 8 questions his article is also on the ISA Global Cybersecurity Alliance weblog and has helped business owners develop critical solutions that include cybersecurity by design. Before obtaining the IEC 1-5-XNUMX certificate in May XNUMX, Moxa had followed the development of the standard for XNUMX years and designed its products according to its guidelines. In addition to this, Moxa has invested a lot of resources in educating the market not only about the importance of the standard, but also about how to integrate its principles into each and every level of Moxa's hardware and software development. Only by increasing awareness of cybersecurity can the software security of industrial networks joining forces. With this in mind, we at Moxa will continue to invest in cybersecurity and work closely with our service customers to ensure that “secure by design” solutions can be successfully implemented.
About Moxa
Moxa is a leading provider of edge connectivity, industrial computing and network infrastructure solutions to enable connectivity for the Industrial Internet of Things. Moxa has more than 30 years of experience in the industry, has connected more than fifty-seven million devices worldwide, and has a distribution and service network that reaches customers in more than seventy countries. Moxa provides lasting business value by providing the industry with reliable networks and true services for industrial communications infrastructures. You will find information about moxa solutions at www.moxa.com
