AFRY, Advenica, and AVEVA Select Scandinavia partners up to enable the highest level of cybersecurity for industry 4.0
A strategic collaboration for enhanced cybersecurity and digital transformation
AFRY has entered a strategic partnership with Advenica and AVEVA Select Scandinavia to offer top modern cyber-security solutions to the industrial sector. By combining our unique expertise and technologies, this partnership aims to strengthen security within Industry 4.0, focusing on ensuring secure data transfers and compliance with strict legal requirements.
In the ever-evolving landscape of digital transformation, achieving advanced functionality for Industry 4.0 requires robust cybersecurity solutions. One such solution is the data diode, a cybersecurity measure that ensures unidirectional data flow, thereby preventing data breaches.
A data diode functions as a cyber-safety valve, permitting data to flow in only one direction and blocking any data transmission in the opposite direction. This technology is grounded in optical fiber, making it physically impossible for data to travel in reverse.
Recognizing the critical role of data diodes in achieving digital success, AFRY, Advenica, and AVEVA Select Scandinavia AB have partnered up to make this technology accessible to industries, infrastructures, smart cities, and real estate clients.
Why use data diodes?
- Achieve NIS2 compliance: Ensure secure data transfer to cloud services.
- Safe usage of non-classified IoT protocols: Securely connect sensitive OT systems with other systems.
- Facilitate secure data transfer: Enable safe data exchange between IT and OT systems, such as from SCADA systems to office networks.
- Network segmentation: Ensure secure network segmentation and data flow management.
A strategic partnership for enhanced cybersecurity
This partnership empowers clients to secure data transfers from OT to IT, to the cloud, from the production floor to suppliers, and more. With combined security solutions, systems are better protected, and compliance with legislations such as NIS2 and CER is enhanced.
Marie Bengtsson, Advenica CEO, expressed her enthusiasm for the partnership:
“We are thrilled to partner with AFRY and AVEVA Select Scandinavia, which allows us to help fulfill the security demands of Industry 4.0 by securing network connections between systems and locations. Together, we are enabling organizations to safeguard their most sensitive data while ensuring compliance with regulations like NIS2.”
The collaboration between AFRY, Advenica, and AVEVA Select Scandinavia marks a significant step forward in addressing the cybersecurity challenges of modern industries, ensuring that they remain resilient and secure in an increasingly interconnected world.
“Cybersecurity is today at the top of any IT/OT agenda where industrial information must be consumed outside the internal process network. Together with AFRY and their deep integration- and service capabilities in conjunction with AVEVA technology and Advenica’s high assurance solutions for safeguarding operational assets, we together have a strong combined value to offer”, concludes Peter Karlsson, CEO, AVEVA Select Scandinavia
About AVEVA Select Scandinavia
AVEVA Select Scandinavia is an exclusively selected distributor, certified training provider, and service provider of AVEVA’s industrial software solutions in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. Together with our certified partners, we offer innovative software solutions that enable our customers to become leaders in their industries within smart industry, smart infrastructure, and smart buildings. For more information, visit www.scandinavia.avevaselect.com. Follow us on LinkedIn.
About Advenica
Advenica provides cybersecurity solutions within encryption and network segmentation with the highest level of EU- and national approvals. The company was founded in 1993 and is based in Malmö, Sweden, where most of its products are designed, developed, and manufactured. Advenica specialises in the sectors of defence, authorities, infrastructure, and industry. With decades of experience working with Sweden’s national security, Advenica is known for delivering cybersecurity with exceptional service.
