The process control industry is moving from using proprietary communications to using open standards and protocols such as Ethernet, TCP/IP, and OPC to integrate Safety Integrated Systems (SIS) with Distributed Control Systems (DCS)

IPS performed cyber security assessments of its communication platform starting with the Tricon Communication Module.

The Achilles certification testing methodology used by Wurldtech Labs™ involves the industry’s most stringent network testing, with more that 30 million individual tests performed on each controller.

Such design ensures that a failure or disruption of the communication network originated by a Cyber Attack on the network will not affect the performance of the safety or critical system. The safety and critical control systems are fully protected from external hostile intrusions that could place personnel at risk and/or cause incalculable damage to industrial assets.