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Waterfall’s® unique advantages:

Unidirectional Security Gateway™ - provides a full solution, out of the box
Designed and built to meet Critical Infrastructure and Utilities needs
Off the shelf integral support for Historians, SCADA protocols, file transfers, streaming
Enables compliance with relevant requirements found in NERC-CIP, NIST 800.53 and 800.82, RG 5.71
Host hardware invariance - server agnostic, hardware independence
Host hardware compatibility – no need to certify hardware with host servers
Simple hardware maintenance and replacement
1GB support – hardware and software
High Availability – Integral in the product, for both hardware and software
Inherent buffering mechanisms
Official, mutually supported solutions with major vendors of SCADA, Industrial and related systems
Dual power supply – Dual power source for each Waterfall appliance

The following sections contain material and information about our technology, offerings, advantages and uniqueness and also relevant and interesting information w gather regularly about the industrial cyber security realm.

Technology

Whitepapers and Information

Regulations, Policies and Best Practices

Release Notes

Recorded Webinar: Stronger Than Firewalls – And Cheaper Too

The cost of deploying hardware-enforced unidirectional security gateways are dominated by up-front capital expenses and easily-identified recurring operational expenses. Plant/enterprise firewall costs are dominated by less-visible management and labour costs. Join Joel Langill and Andrew Ginter to examine the cost of managing firewalls more

McAfee FOCUS: Critical Infrastructure Security Requires Partnerships

LAS VEGAS - McAfee FOCUS 2012 - Solving security challenges to critical infrastructure companies requires partnerships between vendors, a panel of solution providers and experts said today at McAfee's Focus conference in Las Vegas. Working closely with suppliers, explained Gary Woodward, director of business development at Emerson Process more

Westinghouse picks McAfee to protect nuclear control systems

An agreement between Westinghouse Electric Company and McAfee will see the former provide McAfee Enterprise Security Manager and Network Intrusion Protection to new and existing nuclear power plants. "This agreement will help us deliver cyber security in accordance with some of our industry associations' best practices and guidelines," more

Recorded Webinar: Non-Routable Unidirectional Gateways – a New Alternative for NERC-CIP v4

FERC has approved the NERC-CIP version 4 standards for April 1, 2014. Entities with new v4 Critical Cyber Assets (CCAs) are using CAN-0024 guidance to deploy non-routable Unidirectional Gateways, in generating assets primarily. This can reduce CCA counts and so dramatically reduce v4 program costs. Non-routable Unidirectional Gateways more

EMS Channel

ENHANCEMENT: Version: 4.0.0.0, Revision: 2512, Issue Date: September 5th, 2011. Wait interval settings were removed since the reading mechanism of messages from the TibEMS server has changed. The EMS triggers are currently used instead of reading new messages by the interval timing.more

Installation Tool

BUG FIXES: Version: 4.0.0.0, Revision: 4164, Issue Date: November 1st , 2012 Waterfall's DLL files and are not being deleted in the uninstall process. In addition, it fails to delete the GUI utilities Configuration Tool and Console when in use. Version: 5.0.0.0, Revision: 4073 , Issue Date: November 1st, 2012 After the uninstall process of Waterfall Security more

Keep Alive Channel

ENHANCEMENT: Version: 4.0.0.0, Revision: 2992 and Version: 5.0.0.0, Revision: 2996, Issue Date: August 2nd, 2012 Renaming “Keep Alive” channel as “Heartbeat”: Since “Keepalive” is a message type which is relevant for TCP-based communication, the channel was renamed as “Heartbeat” in order to better characterize its functionality at Waterfall. (“Heartbeat” refers to a periodic signal generated by hardware or software to indicate that it is still running)more

Local Folders

ENHANCEMENT: Version: 4.0.0.0, Revision: 2827, Issue Date: December 5th, 2011 Previously the 'File Procedure' DLL passed the file path with '\' as the path separator character to the command line. A new tag named 'PathSeparator' is added to 'ProcedureParams' as a part of 'FileProcedure' tag. Using this tag, the user may determine a path separator more

Mirror Channel

BUG FIX: Version: 4.0.0.0, Revision: 2855, Issue Date: December 5th, 2011. Not all the folders of the channel are created when configuring the Mirror channel and pressing on the Apply button.more

OPC Channel

ENHANCEMENTS: Version: 4.0.0.0, Revision: 2727, Issue Date: September 5th, 2011 Enabling deletion of a DB file in order to perform remapping the tags’ names: A new button named 'Clean DB' is added, for both DA and HDA Server channels. Pressing this button will delete the DB file as configured in 'BackupRecoverFileName' XML tag. In former more

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