360Quadrants, the world’s only comparison platform that combines expert analysis with crowdsourced reviews, has released a quadrant on industrial control systems security solutions to help businesses make quicker and more informed decisions.

Industrial Control Systems Security (ICS security) is defined as the ability of organizations to secure their automation processes and related critical information from cyber intrusions for uninterrupted and sustained productivity of utilities, grids, transportation systems, and manufacturing plants. Industrial control systems cover various types of control systems such as Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), Distributed Control System (DCS), and Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) to remotely manage critical industrial infrastructure from a central control room. Securing systems from advanced persistent threats is prompting various security solution providers to customize their offerings according to industry demand.

For this quadrant, the components of industrial control systems security are mainly segmented into solution, service, type, security type, and vertical.

Schneider Electric has been identified as an innovator in the industrial control systems security solutions space given its extensive product features, high product quality, reliability, suitable channel strategy, and wide geographical footprint. 360Quadrants also lists competitors of Schneider Electric in the industrial control systems security solutions space.

Industrial control systems security solution offerings from Schneider Electric aims to deliver valuable insights and intelligence from data. The company has an established product portfolio with a robust market presence and business strategy. Some of the major developments of the company in the industrial control systems security solutions space include:

Schneider Electric's EcoStruxure Foxboro DCS Enables Faster Time to Profit for Dow Corning

Schneider Electric provided support to Dow Corning to upgrade its distributed control systems. The capital expenditure of Dow Corning's Carrollton (Kentucky) plant is expected to reduce post modernization of the existing Foxboro I/A Series control system to the new EcoStruxure™ Foxboro DCS.