Challenge This global industrial automation manufacturer needed to upgrade its cybersecurity controls across a broad range of programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and industrial automation equipment. Based in Europe, their state government and standards bodies mandated that industrial manufacturers serving critical infrastructure reduce the security risks associated with their products by replacing OpenSSL, an open-source SSL library, with a stronger cryptographic solution that integrated securely with the new industrial messaging standard, OPC UA. The government and manufacturer had concerns about the vulnerabilities and complexity of integration of OpenSSL as well as its large, slow code base. The manufacturer also wanted to minimize their risk of breaching privacy laws under

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