Security, Compliance and Redundancy
Our platform's security tools offer comprehensive measures to safeguard the system and its data. This includes access control, user authentication, and data encryption. Users can easily define and manage user roles and permissions, controlling access to specific system areas based on user roles and privileges.
The platform also supports multi-factor authentication and includes features like audit trails and activity logs. These features track user activity within the system, providing a detailed record of data access. This helps in detecting and investigating security breaches and potential threats.
Industry-standard security protocols such as Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) are supported with our platform. These protocols ensure secure data transmission between the system and other devices or applications.
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Key Functionalities
Features Highlights
The Security Module in FactoryStudio provides a range of features to ensure comprehensive security for your projects. Key features include:
- User Management: Easily create and manage user profiles with customizable access levels to project components.
- Group-based Permissions: Define the access level for each user group within the project.
- Session Policies: Manage user identification and session control requirements.
- Runtime Users: Dynamically add and remove users without needing to modify the project.
- Integration with Active Directory and LDAP: Seamlessly streamline user management across your organization.
Security
FDA 21 CFR Part 11 and NERC
Our software platform offers various security and compliance features to assist organizations in meeting the requirements of FDA 21 CFR Part 11. It's important to recognize that compliance is a continuous process. Therefore, organizations should consistently monitor and update their systems and policies to ensure alignment with the standards set by the FDA.
Built-in .NET Security
Our platform’s development relies on .NET and utilizes managed code, adhering to security guidelines. Development with .NET managed code must comply with .NET rules. Specific guidelines are tailored for different modules. For instance, Alarms adhere to FDA guidelines, while Electrical device communications adhere to IEC61850 standards, among others. Below, we'll outline the main FS-Security topics along with some basic information about each.
Group and User Permissions
Using our platform, you have total flexibility to define privileges based on groups or individual users. Permissions can be set globally or linked to specific displays, objects, or input actions.
Runtime Users
Easily create users on the fly and store their credentials in SQL databases. You can also retrieve users from Active Directory or third-party systems for integrated security and unified login.
User Policies
We offer a complete set of user management features, including identification policies, session duration control, automated logoff, e-signatures, audit trails, and more.
Redundancy
Hot-standby Fault-tolerant Servers
Our platform provides reliable and easily configurable redundancy for seamless failover. It automatically initializes and synchronizes the primary and secondary servers. Additionally, setting up redundant physical networks and PLC nodes for device communication channels is straightforward.
Database Redundancy
You can assign the Alarm and Historian database to a third-party external cluster, or they can be automatically replicated when running on the platform’s servers.
Project Configuration Synchronization
The engineering tools offer features that simplify configuration and updates in redundant scenarios.
Hot-swapping
Redundant or stand-alone servers enable seamless switching of project versions, ensuring uninterrupted service for connected clients while maintaining the real-time database loaded.
Redundancy at the Core Level
All modules, including Real-Time tags, Devices, Alarms, Historian, Scripts, and Clients, were built from the ground up to meet redundancy and hot-swapping requirements.
Redundancy can be set individually for each Execution Profile (Development, Testing and Production)
Learn more at Security (Users and Roles).
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