ASSESS YOUR NETWORK - By Us and Rockwell Automation Services

Understand Potential Performance Issues

Before you can deploy a modern industrial network infrastructure, you need to understand your existing infrastructure's conditions and identify any issues. Our Industrial Network Services team brings a unique perspective, leveraging our team of IT specialists who have industrial automation expertise. This balanced approach allows us to fully assess your industrial IT assets, and identify and remediate potential performance and security issues.

Assessment Specifics: 

Rockwell Automation offers two levels of assessments as cost-effective solutions to help eliminate the guessing game and tackle issues before they create risk to your infrastructure. Both leverage our unique blend of IT and industrial expertise and help identify where gaps exist in your network architecture and security.

1.  Standard

Assessing Risk does not have to be daunting – let us do the work

Our standard assessments are comprised of data collected by an on-site Rockwell Automation professional interviewing your engineers and staff, observing your infrastructure and documenting the results. For a cost-effective approach to identifying and prioritizing your network issues and risks, a standard assessment fits your needs.

• Flat fee service that includes travel, on site labor and on site report preparation and delivery

• Quantitative algorithms determine tolerance thresholds, risk indications, and prioritized mitigation plans of with action:

• Technical description and classification of each vulnerability
• Diagnose findings - Prioritization and criticality of each vulnerability as expressed by impact and exploitation potential
• Recommended mitigation activities  
• Actionable next steps

• Limited infrastructure inventory of major components based upon physical access

• Typical timeline: one week from initial on site arrival.

2. Comprehensive

No two plants are the same, and neither are your challenges

Our comprehensive assessments are customized based upon your unique challenges and production requirements, as well as the data we collect and analyze. If you have an upcoming need to improve or expand your network infrastructure and need a complete qualitative and quantitative evaluation, a comprehensive assessment is the best fit for you.

• Flat fee service that includes travel, on site labor and on and off site report preparation

• In addition to the standard assessment report, we also leverage tools and perform detailed analysis to provide:

• Ethernet packet capture and inspection
• Detailed logical and physical network topologies
• Comprehensive infrastructure inventory
• Automation system device configuration specifications
• Evaluation of network performance
• Recommendations for risk management

• Switch configuration analysis

• Typical timeline: 2-3 weeks from initial on site arrival.