Honeywell steps up R&D with new industrial cyber security lab in USA

BANGALORE, INDIA: Honeywell Process Solutions (HPS) today opened an Industrial Cyber Security Lab to advance its development and testing of new technologies and software to defend industrial facilities and operations such as refineries and manufacturing plants from cyber attacks.

The new Honeywell Industrial Cyber Security Lab, located in Georgia in the US, includes a model of a complete process control network that Honeywell cyber security experts will leverage for proprietary research, hands-on training, and to develop, test and certify industrial cyber security solutions. This lab will help accelerate development time of new cyber protection technologies and their availability to customers.

In addition to its new lab, Honeywell’s Industrial Cyber Security group has also added a number of cyber security experts to increase the bench strength of its development and business teams.

Global surveys on cyber security revealed that cyber criminals could disrupt major sectors of the economy and identified the oil and gas, chemicals and power industries as particularly vulnerable.

“Many of our customers have come to us looking for cyber security solutions to defend their industrial facilities, operations and people from damage, disruption and misuse,” said Jeff Zindel, global business leader for Cyber Security, HPS. “We will be able to validate new solutions faster in a variety of scenarios and increase our customers’ defenses against the growing threat of cyber attacks.”

For more than a decade, Honeywell has developed and provided proprietary cyber protection software and technology for its leading process automation solutions, including Experion process controls, which are used at hundreds of industrial sites such as refineries, chemical plants, gas processing units, power plants, mines and mills around the world. The Honeywell Industrial Cyber Security group has delivered more than 1,000 industrial cyber security projects globally.