Exter­nal access – a ques­ti­on of security

In the age of Indus­try 4.0 and the Inter­net of Things (IoT), secu­re VPN gate­ways in con­nec­tion with VPN access points are the pre­re­qui­si­te for pro­tec­ting machi­nes from unaut­ho­ri­zed access.

The con­trol and main­ten­an­ce of any machi­ne is incre­a­singly being car­ri­ed out remo­te­ly, which saves com­pa­nies con­si­derable tra­vel cos­ts. For some of our cus­to­mers it was com­mon for spe­cia­lists to be flown in from Ger­ma­ny to the USA, which is not only an expen­si­ve under­ta­king, but in times of Covid has also beco­me more and more of a logisti­cal problem.

But can com­pa­nies rely on the machi­ne manu­fac­turer’s remo­te access modu­les actual­ly com­ply­ing with cur­rent safe­ty standards?

Which com­pa­ny wants or is allo­wed – whe­ther its data pro­tec­tion regu­la­ti­ons – to tole­ra­te third par­ties in its network?

Hard­ly any con­trac­tu­al regu­la­ti­ons for IT security

When manu­fac­tu­ring sys­tems are main­tai­ned by exter­nal third par­ties and the­re is no secu­re and up-to-date solu­ti­on, hacker attacks can easi­ly cau­se mil­li­ons in dama­ge. Unfor­tu­n­a­te­ly, alar­ming secu­ri­ty vul­nera­bi­li­ties appe­ar every day.

The simp­le rea­son: IT secu­ri­ty is eit­her not part of the core busi­ness of machi­ne manu­fac­tu­rers or – the more com­mon case – the machi­nes are con­trac­tual­ly expli­ci­tly not per­mit­ted for direct access from outside.

Best pro­tec­tion against hackers

Our rou­ters are manu­fac­tu­rer-inde­pen­dent and can be con­fi­gu­red indi­vi­du­al­ly. We rely on trans­pa­rent open source code, hard encryp­ti­on, secu­re pass­words, uni­que authen­ti­ca­ti­on up to mul­ti-fac­tor and hard­ware authen­ti­ca­ti­on as well as clear access control.

In order to addi­tio­nal­ly pro­tect your data behind the VPN rou­ter, we can also cas­ca­de the access sys­tem so that attemp­ted attacks are no lon­ger worthwhile.