Yokogawa Electric : Obtains ISASecure® EDSA Certification for CENTUM® VP Production Control System
July 15, 2014 at 03:24 am EDT
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Yokogawa Obtains ISASecure® EDSA Certification
for CENTUM® VP Production Control System
Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that its CENTUM® VP production control system has obtained the ISASecure® Embedded Device Security Assurance (EDSA) certification from the .
Cybercrime and cyber warfare are on the rise worldwide, and are growing ever more sophisticated. Recent prominent cases of industrial sabotage and espionage have escalated these concerns. Companies in the oil, petrochemical, power, and other industries are increasingly vigilant about such intrusions, and are being careful to check a product's cyber security features before purchasing it. To assure customers of the high reliability of its products, Yokogawa obtained the ISASecure EDSA certification for the CENTUM VP production control system through a process that involved an examination by the CSSC (Control System Security Center) Certification Laboratory. This is the second Yokogawa product to receive ISASecure EDSA certification; the ProSafe® -RS safety instrumented system received the same certification earlier this year.
Nobuaki Konishi, vice president of the PA Systems Business Center in Yokogawa's Industrial Automation Platform Business Headquarters, had the following to say about this development: "Yokogawa is continually striving to provide its customers optimum security solutions for their control systems by such means as developing highly secure systems and instruments and providing operational support services." He went on to say, "Yokogawa aims to strengthen its relationships with customers by demonstrating the reliability of its security solutions."
Yokogawa Electric Corporation specializes in design, manufacturing and marketing of electronic equipments. Net sales break down by family of products as follows:
- automation and control equipments (90.4%): industrial control systems, production control systems, flow meters, industrial recorders, etc.;
- measuring and test equipments (6.9%): semiconductor tests equipments, analyzers, digital counters, electricity, temperature and pressure measuring instruments, scanners, oscilloscopes, tachymeter, altitude indicators, integrated display systems, etc.;
- other (1.7%): marine equipments, meteorological and hydrological measuring instruments, etc.
Net sales break down geographically as follows: Japan (32.2%), China (14%), India (3.6%), Asia and the Far East (15.7%), Middle East and Africa (11.2%), North America (8.9%), Europe (8%), Russia (3.8%) and Latin America (2.6%).
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