Our industrial customers—many of them producers and manufacturers—tend to deal with workflows that are highly concrete and tangible. Whether they are manufacturing tires, brewing beer, building automobiles, blending salad dressings, processing chemicals, formulating pharmaceuticals, refining crude oil or cleaning wastewater, the inputs of raw materials and the outputs of finished goods are fairly visible. Theoretically, you could hold them in your hands—although, clearly, you’d rather hold some in your hands more than others.

To help provide a flavor of the insights and experience that Tripwire makes available, we’re interviewing several Tripwire in-house experts. You’ll learn more about how they have been working with Belden industrial customers to help bolster their network security and optimize their uptime in today’s challenging environment.

To help provide a flavor of the insights and experience that Tripwire makes available, we’re interviewing several Tripwire in-house experts. You’ll learn more about how they have been working with Belden...

Periodic active network scanning is generally essential to maintain an accurate picture of the network, as significant information is only available upon request and otherwise never present in normal traffic.

I recently had the honor of being invited back for the second time to speak at the semi-annual meeting sponsored by the Industrial Control Systems Joint Working Group (ICSJWG) within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. I presented some exciting information on new network monitoring technologies, building significantly upon the information I presented last year.