Besides the issue of physical security, the chemical and pharmaceutical industries are faced with an ever-increasing risk of cyber threats to their DCS and SCADA infrastructure networks as well as their R&D networks. Their process control systems are inextricably connected with business and administration networks as the need to improve efficiency and business effectiveness is imperative. This interconnectedness brings with it the ills that have beset the IT world in terms of greater susceptibility to cyber attacks and cyber terror.Cyber attacks can be perpetrated both by outsiders as well as insiders and may be caused by design faults, employee errors, firewall misconfigurations, tardy software updates and circumvention of existing security elements such as IDS and IPS systems. Such attacks can have far –reaching and detrimental effects on chemical process control systems and could lead to the destabilization of the manufacturing facilities of chemical and pharmaceutical plants.To effectively meet CFATS compliance and to ensure uninterrupted production, companies must address their overall security posture. Waterfall Security Solutions provides a cutting-edge solution based on unique unidirectional technology. This solution enables secure and impenetrable information replication from critical networks, including SCADA networks, to less-secure connected networks as well as unidirectional connectivity for separated networks as R&D networks.Waterfall Security Solutions Ltd. is the leading provider of Unidirectional Security Gateways for Process Control Systems, SCADA systems, Remote Monitoring and Segregated Networks. Waterfall’s products have been deployed in many homeland security agencies, critical national infrastructures and mission critical organizations in the USA, Canada, and Europe, as the central component of a strong regulatory compliance plan. Waterfall’s offerings include security solutions for leading industrial applications (such as the OSIsoft PI® Historian, Instep EDNA, GE Proficy Historian, the Siemens WinTS and the GE OSM remote monitoring platforms) and leading industrial protocols (such as OPC, Modbus, DNP3 and ICCP).Many of Waterfall Unidirectional Security Gateways™ installations are designed and aimed to assist in achieving compliance to CFATS, NERC CIP, NRC and other regulations and requirements.