The newest addition to Honeywell’s lineup of industrial cyber security technology, Secure Media Exchange (SMX) is a first-of-its kind solution that provides multiple layers of protection against USB-borne threats at industrial sites. It also features the industry’s first threat intelligence and threat-detection cloud to keep systems up to data against these threats.
Even though USBs represent one of the top threats in the industrial space, they’re still the principal vehicles for updating and maintaining PCN configurations. SMX addresses this by monitoring, protecting, and logging the use of USBs and removable media throughout industrial facilities.
SMX secures open USB ports from non-checked devices like smart phones and other removable media. It offers additional evergreen threat intelligence through Honeywell’s Advanced Threat Intelligence Exchange (ATIX) solution (the threat intelligence and threat-detection cloud), reducing the potential attack window and minimizing site labor to maintain updates. This approach secures the use of removable media while safeguarding industrial process from future cyber threats.
At a trend level, SMX bridges the divide between IT and OT requirements for safer process manufacturing. Its security checks involve a powerful combination of intelligence feeds and multiple types of industrial threat detection techniques, as well as Honeywell Cyber Security Lab researcher updates.
