Welcome to Sec³ - Secure Connecting System
Your partner for industrial digitalisation and security made in Europe
In a world characterised by increasing digitalisation and globalisation, new opportunities are opening up for industrial companies. Technological platforms are combining more and more IT and OT data systems across different industries. In addition, artificial intelligence is improving the analysis of machine data and enabling central comparisons, allowing products and services to be optimised and expanded.
WHY Sec3 ?
Sec³ was developed to address the associated challenges in terms of security, functionality, data autonomy and globalisation. The project goes far beyond the optimisation of international 24/7 remote support and hardware configuration and covers additional use cases such as bottleneck analyses and the adjustment of energy gates based on the analysis of machine data.
Sec³ combines THREE functionalities in only ONE device!
Firewall
Remote Service Box
IoT Edge Device
What makes Sec3 so special?
- The IoT edge device supports various IoT layers, including in-house ones Incl. own individually configurable firewall
- Own private cloud and VPN cluster for IoT data and remote maintenance access
- Simple, centralised and time-saving commissioning, control and configuration using provisioning via LTE
- Can be customised to the topography of the respective company
- Access control and audit log for remote maintenance access
- Platform-independent and open source based software
- Can be flexibly adapted to local conditions and future applications future applications
- No licence limitation (unlimited number of number of devices, users and VPN access VPN access per system)
Discover the future of industrial digitalisation and security with Sec³.
Sec³ offers you numerous advantages:
- Standardised connection facility worldwide
- A VPN button enables customer-controlled activation and deactivation of the VPN connection
- An internet connection is not required and an audit log provides additional security
The Sec³ system of X-Net offers maximum security for your machines and IoT devices and convinces with quick initial installation, configurations only via the company's own Sec³ cloud, coordination of the remote maintenance of your components via company's own Sec³ hubs with video documentation and modern encryption. Sec³ - that is where operational Technology (OT) meets classic Information Technology (IT) in a highly secure way and where both disciplines complement each other.
Building Bridges
Developed in industrial environment
Sec³ is an example of a successful combination of Austria's cutting-edge research & regional integrators and (further) developers as well as market leading industries.
Sec3 emerged from several research projects. Among
other things, it is based on the "Security by Isolation" security
system, which isolates different company and production areas from one
another in order to control the flow of communication via virtual
machines in demilitarised zones.
With LiSEC (world market leader in the development and manufacture of glass processing machines) joining the FFG lighthouse project IoT4CPS as a user, the project received significant input and requirements from an internationally active industrial company. With Sec3, X-Net managed to bridge the gap between research (e.g. Austrian Institute of Technology, Salzburg Research) and industry and successfully acted as an integrator, implementer, (further) developer and marketer.
Sec3 was developed precisely to meet the hardware and software requirements of a globally active industrial company, enabling digitalisation solutions of the present and future.
System
Functionalities
Increasing the efficiency of remote services
Provides the basis for AI-based analysis tools
Provides the basis for QM tools
Advantages an particularities
A brief overview.
Secure transmission
of the collected machine and meta data on the supplier/subcontractor/customer including secure machine2machine communication.
No license limitation
Unlimited number of machine networks, users and VPN access per system.
Secure access to machines
through SBI (Security by Isolation). The Sec³ device acts as a firewall and gateway in the customer network. This enables a clear separation between office and production network, within the production network and the monitoring and logging of access to and from the production network.
Fast initial installation
The complete configuration takes place in the central Sec³ core. The individual Sec³ boxes are delivered with individual certificates and automatically receive the allocation remotely as soon as the Sec³ box receives an Internet connection from the customer.
Reliability through redundancy
The optional emergency box prevents machine downtime in the event of a fault.
Advantages and particularities
- independent of any platform and based 100% on open source components
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- can easily be customized to the respective needs of a company
- enables own private in-house cloud solutions for remote maintenance and IoT services
- enhanced security for your critical infrastructure
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- offers enhanced security for machines and (I)IoT devices thanks to modern encryption techniques, logging of VPN connections and audit logs
- by using Security by Isolation (SbI), access is only granted to a selected area of the machine network
- configurations are exclusively performed via the company's own centralized and secure Sec³ Core
- easy, secure and homogeneous remote maintenance and support
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- any remote maintenance of components are audited in Sec³ core
- each connection is done via the company's own Sec³ hubs
- includes "third-party maintaining" with access control (restricted access for subcontractors)
- provides homogeneous access to inhomogeneous environments (Windows, Linux, different remote desktop technologies, etc.)
- Sec³ boxes as remote maintenance, firewall and edge device
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- simple and time-saving initial installation of Sec³ boxes (remote provisioning via LTE)
- Sec³ enables life cycle management including analysis, remote maintenance and extensions
- can be used in any industrial environment (fanless hardware)
- Sec³ is an European IT solution for a secure Europe
One System - as individual as your needs and demands.
Sec³ is 100% Open Source based and can therefore be expanded in many ways.
What belongs to the Sec3 system?
The Sec3 BOX
Can be used either as firewall, firewall-gateway box or IoT Edge Device
The Sec3 CORE
The administration and management system for i.a. box administration, firewall configuration, provisioning, update, access control
The Sec3 HUB
Used to establish encrypted communication between the components
The Sec3 SOFTWARE
Open source based software
Don't leave the security of your company and machine networks to chance.