June 30, 2022
Yigal Cohen: “The company’s global activity in the field of industrial cyber security is managed from Israel. Traditional IT strategies in the field of IT are not sufficient to protect operational systems (Operational Technology)”
Pictured above: Rockwell Automation’s Global Cyber Center operating out of Holon. Photo: Niv Kantor
Rockwell Automation (Rockwell AutomationThe US has launched a global cyber security center for industrial infrastructure (Cybersecurity Operation Center – SOC), which operates from Holon. The center began operations in a quiet format in early November 2021. Now the company has begun a campaign to recruit several dozen employees for the SOC Industrial Center, including an industrial cyber architect, SOC team manager, software engineers, intrusion testers, sales people, portfolio managers and more.
The center’s activities are based on the infrastructure of the Israeli Avnet Data Security company acquired by Rockwell Automation in January 2020, and on the infrastructure of Oylo from Barcelona, Spain, which Rockwell acquired in October 2020. The center operates in cooperation with the systems security companies Claroti Industrial, CrowdStrike, Dragos and Cisco. Rockwell’s Global Cyber Operations Manager is Yigal Cohen, former CEO of Avnet Data Security.
According to him, the company’s activity in the field of industrial cyber security is managed from Israel, and constitutes a significant growth engine for the company. “The investment in the field is intended to improve Rockwell Automation’s own control solutions, and to build a center of expertise for the security of industrial systems. Traditional IT security strategies are not enough to protect operational systems. We will help customers adopt an approach that covers the entire sequence of attacks: before, during and after the event. “
Rockwell Automation is one of the oldest companies in the United States: it was established in 1903 on the basis of the invention of a variable resistor for controlling electric motors. In 1909 the company was renamed Allen-Bradley and to this day it maintains product lines under this brand. In 2001, the aviation aviation company Rockwell Collins left it. Today the company is considered one of the suppliers of the largest industrial control systems in the world. It employs about 24,500 people and is traded on the New York Stock Exchange at a market value of about $ 22.9 billion.
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