Senetas Adds US-based Harbenaux Inc - Moves to Secure Critical National Infrastructure Networks

With United States rolling out a National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP) in 2009 to enhance protection and resiliency in critical infrastructure, Harbenaux will propose security solutions to government agencies and private facilities in the oil and gas, power generation (including nuclear and fossil fuels, transmission and distribution), pharmaceutical, chemical, food and beverage industry and other general process and control plant sites.

Harbenaux Inc, established in Maryland, USA in 1992 specialises in fibre optics and the electrical equipment supply and construction sector.

Senetas CEO, John DuBois said Harbenaux was a good fit for Senetas with its ability to protect critical infrastructure at high speed and to secure the data with little or no latency.

“Given the ability of cyber criminals to penetrate global communications systems running on fibre optic cable, attacks on critical infrastructure networks, often employing remotely managed SCADA devices are becoming more frequent,” Mr DuBois said

Mr DuBois noted that as part of the NIPP, the Department of Homeland Security had identified that: “a spectrum of malicious actors routinely conducts attacks against the cyber infrastructure using cyber-attack tools. Because of the interconnected nature of the cyber infra¬structure, these attacks could spread quickly and have a debilitating effect”.

The US NIPP further warned that “nation-states are realizing that hacking tools, methods, and tactics offer asymmetric opportunities for espionage, countering military force, and economic and geopolitical advantages. These threat vectors, combined with insider threat and a range of other pervasive cyber threats to critical infrastructure, highlight the need for public, private, academic, and international entities to collaborate and enhance cybersecurity awareness and preparedness efforts…”

Senetas technology, proved over more than a decade, is currently in use by governments, military, law enforcement and corporate networks worldwide. It employs AES 256 bit algorithms and high speed public and private key exchange technology to verify and then secure everything transmitted over the information network. In the event that a hacker intercepts the communications to extract or to inject data, all information is encrypted and unusable, therefore protecting against threats to data integrity of high speed information networks, government systems, or the relatively popular and simple SCADA devices controlling critical infrastructure and resource networks.

Harbenaux’s president Joseph Flatau said: “Senetas is recognised worldwide as the leader in data encryption with installations in some very high concern areas.

“We are pleased to become a partner with them and offer this level of data encryption security to our industrial customer base here in the US. Our goal is to prevent data security incidents from occurring by offering the world’s best security products and services to our clients,” Mr Flatau said