In order to protect highly sensitive data and networks, such as industrial networks and critical infrastructure control systems, the most commonly used security measure is to completely disconnect the system from other networks. It has been employed for critical infrastructure and SCADA systems as well as industrial networks, but it is becoming more and more problematic as the need to import and export data from the isolated networks is increasing. The manual transfer of data not only generates a security risk but also a huge work load, and it is prone to human error.
The PES’s Data Diode solves these issues by creating a physically secure one-way communication channel from the insecure network to the secure one. The one-way channel allows data to be safely transferred into the secure network, without any data left out.