Security Measures For Sinamics - Siemens SINAMICS Configuration Manual

Security measures for SINAMICS

The following section gives you an overview of the Industrial Security features for SINAMICS
to protect your inverter from threats, and an overview of topics for which you should give special
attention to Industrial Security:
● Write and know-how protection
● Parameters: Access levels + password
● Using the memory card
● Note on Safety Integrated
● Communication services and used port numbers
● Web server
● Information about individual interfaces
● SINAMICS Startdrive and STARTER
● SINAMICS Drive Control Chart (DCC)
All of the listed measures are recommended.
Detailed descriptions and procedures can be found in the corresponding SINAMICS
documentation.
5.1 Network security
SINAMICS must only be used in a secure and trustworthy network with a firewall. Note the
information in chapter "Network segmentation (Page 21)".
5.2 Write protection and know-how protection
The "write protection" and "know-how protection" functions allow you to protect your own
projects against changes, unauthorized access, or copying (know-how protection, KHP)
Protection
Write protec‐
tion
Know-how pro‐
tection
Industrial Security
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Validity Objective
Online The write protection is used to protect the
parameterization from accidental
changes by the user.
Online The know-how protection is used to pro‐
tect intellectual property, especially the
know-how of the machine manufacturers,
against unauthorized use or reproduction
of their products.
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Effect
p-parameters can be read,
but cannot be written.
p-parameters can neither
be read nor written.
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