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INDUSTRIAL INTERNET CONSORTIUM ANNOUNCES
FIRST SECURITY CLAIMS EVALUATION TESTBED
UL (Underwriters Laboratories), Xilinx, Aicas, PrismTech and other contributors join forces to provide a
security and cybersecurity assessment platform for evaluating endpoint, gateway, and other networked
components’ security capabilities
Needham, MA - February 22, 2016 - The Industrial Internet Consortium® (IIC) announces its first security
assessment-focused testbed: the Security Claims Evaluation Testbed. IIC member organizations UL,
Xilinx, Aicas and PrismTech are collaborating on the project to provide an open and easily configurable
cybersecurity platform for evaluation of endpoint, gateway, and other networked components’ security
capabilities. Data sources can include industrial, automotive, medical and other related endpoints
requested for secure operation analysis.
IIC members will be able to connect their equipment to the testbed to evaluate the security of their
devices within two different scenarios: individually on a device level, or with a system of other
endpoints, gateways, etc. The options include exploration of methodology and collection of evidence to
demonstrate the system operational security processes supporting the key characteristics of the system
relative to evaluation of the participant’s claims. Additionally, the testbed enables the evaluation of
those critical areas of an architecture pattern that need to be secured as outlined in the Industrial
Internet Reference Architecture Technical Report.
Understanding the security of devices very early in product development can minimize delays for
product launch. The testbed aims to enable manufacturers to improve the security posture of their
products and verify alignment to the upcoming IIC Security Framework Technical Report prior to product
launch to help accelerate time to market.
The testbed will be rolled out in three stages, with the first being initial deployment in a lab
environment and the second in a micro-factory environment. The third phase will be determined by the
growth of the testbed. The security testbed’s phased release approach provides a unique learning
opportunity to evaluate security vulnerabilities at a device level as well as a system level prior to large
scale deployment across many key applications driving the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) / Industry
4.0.
“Working to help assure the security of the Industrial Internet is a logical extension of UL’s work to
support safer environments globally,” said Jeff Smidt, Vice President and General Manager of UL’s
energy & power technologies division. “By offering the first IIC-approved security evaluation testbed to
IIC members and the broader IIoT community, we are meeting the manufacturers’ need to address their
products’ security profile early on in the product development cycle, thus enabling more efficient
product rollout processes.”
“Xilinx is committed to providing the Industrial IoT industry with our latest All Programmable SoC
technologies that focus on achieving the highest levels of anti-tamper, information assurance and trust
capabilities,” said Lawrence Getman, Vice President of Corporate and Strategic Marketing at Xilinx.
“Xilinx’s technology is at the heart of the Security Claims Evaluation testbed. By leveraging the highly
flexible and configurable nature that our Programmable SoC devices provide, we enable a broad
spectrum of use cases that further enhance the participants’ security claim assessments.”
“Aicas helps realize the Industrial IoT industry with secure, scalable, dynamic component-based
composable, standards-based, deterministic hard real-time capable, multi-language software
platforms,” said David Beberman, Chief Sales and Marketing Officer at Aicas. “Aicas’ toolchain and
platform Java bytecode based technology and secure messaging technology enables component level
installation and runtime authentication, authorization and IP protection for the Security Claims
Evaluation testbed, and extends it with authentication, authorization and privacy to the cloud.”
“PrismTech develops secure, high performance, real-time end-to-end, data connectivity solutions for the
Industrial IoT based on the OMG’s Data Distribution Service for Real-time Systems standard,” said
Lawrence Ross, CEO, PrismTech. “Our technology will provide the Security Claims Evaluation Testbed
with a flexible and secure Edge to Cloud data backbone that can support a broad range of participants’
security claims assessments.”
Partners Contributing to the Security Claims Evaluation Testbed:
The testbed will leverage several technologies from non-IIC constituents including: secure intelligent
gateway and networking IPs providing endpoint to the cloud communication from SoC-e (System-onChip engineering S.L.), overall testbed monitoring with real-time analytics from Juxt.io, endpoint
monitoring from PFP Cybersecurity, and programmable SOC Platforms and IP from iVeia.
To learn more about this testbed, visit www.iiconsortium.org/security-claims.
About Industrial Internet Consortium
The Industrial Internet Consortium is an open membership organization, with over 230 members to date,
formed to accelerate the development, adoption and wide-spread use of interconnected machines and
devices, intelligent analytics and people at work. Founded by AT&T, Cisco, General Electric, IBM and Intel
in March 2014, the IIC catalyzes and coordinates the priorities and enabling technologies of the Industrial
Internet. For more information, visit www.iiconsortium.org.
About UL
UL is a premier global independent safety science company that has championed progress for more than
120 years. Its nearly 11,000 professionals are guided by the UL mission to promote safe working and
living environments for all people via two distinct entities: Underwriters Laboratories Inc., a 501(c)3
public charity, and UL, LLC. UL uses research and standards to continually advance and meet everevolving safety needs. We partner with businesses, manufacturers, trade associations and international
regulatory authorities to bring solutions to a more complex global supply chain. For more information,
visit www.UL.com.
About Xilinx
Xilinx is the leading provider of All Programmable FPGAs, SoCs, MPSoCs, and 3D ICs. Xilinx
uniquely enables applications that are both software defined and hardware optimized –
powering industry advancements in Cloud Computing, SDN/NFV, Video/Vision, Industrial IoT,
and 5G Wireless. For more information, visit www.xilinx.com.
About Aicas
aicas is a leading producer of Java development and analysis tools for real-time and embedded
systems. The company was founded in 2001, headquartered in Karlsruhe, Germany.
JamaicaVM is aicas' flagship product, a hard real-time Java virtual machine with fully
preemptable, deterministic garbage collection. JamaicaVM is optimized for critical systems such
as real-time control, network communication, and human-machine interfaces (HMI).
JamaicaVM is widely used in the industrial automation, military and aerospace, automotive,
medical, and financial markets. For more information, visit www.aicas.com.
About PrismTech
PrismTech’s customers deliver systems for the Internet of Things, the Industrial Internet and
advanced wireless communications. PrismTech supplies the data connectivity solutions, tools
and professional services they need to build systems with the required: platform coverage,
performance, scalability, efficiency, flexibility and robustness.
PrismTech’s customers service many market sectors, including: industrial automation, energy,
healthcare, transportation, smart cities, aerospace and defense. For additional information
about PrismTech, visit www.prismtech.com.
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