COMPANY NEWS: Close to 10 years ago, Siemens introduced asymmetric cryptography into the integrated security architecture of its TIA Portal v12 and SIMATIC S7-1200/1500 PLC CPU firmware families. This ...
The Siemens Simatic S7-1500VF virtual PLC is a software-defined automation controller designed for failsafe automation applications, with safety functions up to SIL3 and PLe. With the fail-safe ...
Integrating Siemens PLCs with IO-Link devices enables smarter automation, advanced diagnostics, and higher efficiency. Leveraging TIA Portal and compatible hardware ensures smooth communication from ...
Security researchers have found a way to extract a global encryption key that was hardcoded in the CPUs of several Siemens programmable logic controller (PLC) product lines, allowing them to ...
The EM 253 is a positioning expansion module for the Simatic S7-200 PLC for precise control of microsteppers and intelligent servo drives. A separate controller independently of the main CPU handles ...
This is the environment where engineers like Avadh Nagaralawala operate. His work on migrations from S7-300 to S7-1500, via Siemens’ TIA Portal, would indeed highlight the difficulties on the one hand ...
Team82, the research arm of New York-based industrial cybersecurity firm Claroty, revealed on October 11, 2022, that they managed to extract heavily guarded, hardcoded cryptographic keys embedded ...
A PLC diagnostics platform proven in Korean automotive, electronics, and battery manufacturing is now available in Europe with local deployment and support.
In 2009, the computer worm Stuxnet crippled hundreds of centrifuges inside Iran’s Natanz uranium enrichment plant by targeting the software running on the facility’s industrial computers, known as ...