Networking
With increasing productivity demands and evolving technology, plant floor infrastructures continue to be impacted and there’s an urgent need to modernize legacy systems. Control engineers, maintenance technicians and IT managers each face unique challenges when managing and securing disparate industrial control infrastructure. McNaughton-McKay blends proven plant floor OT experience with IT knowledge, bridging the gap between IT and OT through validated designs, reference architectures and operational enablement. Whether you’re starting from scratch or have an existing flat network in need of a redesign, McNaughton-McKay can help you create a robust production network by asking these five simple questions:
- What is the current health of your industrial control system network?
- Do you have a list of assets on your network?
- Do you have an initiative to improve or expand your industrial control system network?
- Does your industrial control system network support your current production requirements?
- Will your industrial control system network perform in the way necessary to support future growth?
Networking Solutions & Services
Network Assessment
A standard network assessment can provide you with the data needed to improve the health and security of your industrial control system (ICS) Ethernet network. This tool offers detailed information about the architecture, communications, security and disaster recovery preparedness of your network.
Network Triage
Triage services help quickly diagnose and address issues on an industrial control system network. Triage will provide a faster response and execution than a traffic analysis, but it is not intended as a 24/7 emergency break-fix service.
Network Traffic Analysis
A network traffic analysis examines the information communicated over your industrial control system network and documents if device communication requirements are being met or where issues may arise. Recommended remediation steps will provide the best course of action to improve the performance of your network.
Vulnerability Discovery Service (VDS)
Rockwell Automation’s Vulnerability Discovery Service is a first step in protecting your industrial infrastructure against cybersecurity threats. This is done by collecting and analyzing asset data across your ICS network, identifying challenges and vulnerabilities and providing an actionable plan to remediate these threats.
Network Installations
Whether you have a greenfield or a brownfield site, McNaughton-McKay can provide the installation services to support your fully optimized industrial control system network, from a single switch configuration to a complete network.
Software Patching Services
Patch management is the process of distributing and applying updates to software. These patches are often necessary to eliminate bugs and close vulnerabilities in operating systems, applications, and embedded systems. McNaughton-McKay can help you develop and implement a patch deployment strategy. Benefits include security, system uptime, compliance, and feature improvements.
Network Disaster Recovery
Are you prepared for catastrophic network failure? From data loss to employee departure, your team and technology should be ready to take the next step if disaster strikes. McNaughton-McKay can help develop a plan to recover from multiple types of events, establish onsite and offsite backups of critical systems and processes and formulate lists of the required vendors and equipment for production recovery. We can provide asset management to detect and record events, protecting against future incidents. Preparedness is key to preventing a negative impact on production.
Secure Remote Access
Remote access reduces the cost and time needed to troubleshoot your unexpected machine failures. With remote access to smart machines, you can respond faster to equipment issues or help prevent them altogether—resulting in less downtime and increased production. Security, connectivity and complexity can all be significant challenges to implementing the remote access of industrial control systems. Additionally, there are IT demands which must be addressed to provide secure remote access. For many users, these obstacles limit remote access. McNaughton-McKay has experience implementing hardware and software remote access solutions. Our team can help you determine the right solution for your environment and your budget.