Rockwell Automation's Gert Thoonen on Cybersecurity's Role

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00:00I'm Gert Tone, I'm Principal Architect, Cyber Security for Industrial Control Systems, working

00:08at Rockwell Automation and being responsible for Middle East, Turkey and Africa.

00:19Digitalization is the important part because it helps us in our decision making, in our

00:24daily life, also in our production, but at the same time we need to ensure that it is

00:28secure because who has access to my data, maybe you're producing something very exclusive

00:36and you don't want to get your secret source gone to other companies, so how do you protect

00:43it, how to ensure that only the right data are getting the data, but then at the same

00:48time it comes to storing your data, how long will you store your data and how will I actually

00:54retain my data or postpone my data that nobody can steal it after.

01:00As Rockwell Automation we do a lot of investments in digitalization, but also at the same time

01:05in security to help our customers create their own ecosystem to get that done, so we see

01:12many things like SIP security, how to harden your level one, what is actually at the end

01:19of the day the heart of your infrastructure, how do you secure that and transport the data

01:26in a secure way to the other levels in your infrastructure, that's where we do a lot of

01:31things.

01:33Also in artificial intelligence, artificial intelligence is no longer only in IT infrastructure,

01:38but it's also coming into your process environment, how can I see many people do diagnostic on

01:47their frequency drives, but if I could start predicting when I need to change my bearings

01:53and optimize this part, I can start predicting, hey in 80 hours from now I will get an error

02:01in my fan that is controlling my part, that would help me because I can start planning

02:07upfront to minimize my downtime, at the same time artificial intelligence is coming in

02:13your controllers, because if I can see as an operator, if I can monitor my set points

02:21and where my process is going, I will get a much better view in what is happening and

02:27I can start taking actions actually as an operator before my system is going down, so

02:34for us it's Logix AI which will help you to actually monitor those things to get it to

02:40the next level.

02:43The biggest important message is from before you start on a journey, embark with your OEMs

02:53to understand what is the best solution, because there are many technologies, many boxes, but

03:00at the end of the day security is not a cherry on the cake, security should be the cement

03:06in your infrastructure that all the things are working perfectly together and that is

03:11where the initial discussion, understanding how to build the cake, cement is putting tight

03:19things together, that is where it is most important to have your partnerships and ecosystem

03:25that you can ensure that your strategy for the next 10 years is running and going smooth

03:31forward.