You Can’t Secure What You Can’t See: Network Visibility for Industrial Networks

Industrial networks grow over years, and documentation rarely keeps pace. The result is a network that runs the plant but that nobody fully sees — where faults take hours to find, device and firmware inventories are uncertain, and undocumented changes cause avoidable downtime. 

In our recent webinar, we explored what network visibility means in an industrial context—from knowing which devices are connected and how traffic flows between them to detecting changes across the network immediately as they happen. Specifically, we examined why network visibility is becoming essential for reliable operations and explore the practical challenges of establishing and maintaining visibility in a live industrial environment.

Key Takeaways

• Gain centralized visibility across your industrial networks: Navigate multiple sites from one place and clearly visualize network topology, traffic congestion, and security-in-depth.
• Stay aware of network changes and malfunctions in real time: Use notifications and alerts to identify changes, abnormal conditions, and potential issues as they occur.
• Support cybersecurity and regulatory requirements with an accurate asset inventory: Automatically discover connected devices and maintain visibility into key asset and firmware information.
• Make network visibility useful in daily operations: Collect relevant information, filter logs and events, build meaningful dashboards, and automate routine checks.

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) aims to increase productivity and make users lives easier. However, this can only be achieved when the Industrial IoT environment has reliable network connectivity. An unreliable network presents users with several challenges including: longer system downtime, cyber security risks, and unstable operations, especially when using a wireless connection. The diagram below uses factory automation as an example to illustrate what kind of concerns our industry partners face when trying to adopt lndustrial loT applications and benefit from them.

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) aims to increase productivity and make users lives easier. However, this can only be achieved when the Industrial IoT environment has reliable network connectivity. An unreliable network presents users with several challenges including: longer system downtime, cyber security risks, and unstable operations, especially when using a wireless connection. The diagram below uses factory automation as an example to illustrate what kind of concerns our industry partners face when trying to adopt lndustrial loT applications and benefit from them.

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) aims to increase productivity and make users lives easier. However, this can only be achieved when the Industrial IoT environment has reliable network connectivity. An unreliable network presents users with several challenges including: longer system downtime, cyber security risks, and unstable operations, especially when using a wireless connection. The diagram below uses factory automation as an example to illustrate what kind of concerns our industry partners face when trying to adopt lndustrial loT applications and benefit from them.

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) aims to increase productivity and make users lives easier. However, this can only be achieved when the Industrial IoT environment has reliable network connectivity. An unreliable network presents users with several challenges including: longer system downtime, cyber security risks, and unstable operations, especially when using a wireless connection. The diagram below uses factory automation as an example to illustrate what kind of concerns our industry partners face when trying to adopt lndustrial loT applications and benefit from them.

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) aims to increase productivity and make users lives easier. However, this can only be achieved when the Industrial IoT environment has reliable network connectivity. An unreliable network presents users with several challenges including: longer system downtime, cyber security risks, and unstable operations, especially when using a wireless connection. The diagram below uses factory automation as an example to illustrate what kind of concerns our industry partners face when trying to adopt lndustrial loT applications and benefit from them.

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) aims to increase productivity and make users lives easier. However, this can only be achieved when the Industrial IoT environment has reliable network connectivity. An unreliable network presents users with several challenges including: longer system downtime, cyber security risks, and unstable operations, especially when using a wireless connection. The diagram below uses factory automation as an example to illustrate what kind of concerns our industry partners face when trying to adopt lndustrial loT applications and benefit from them.