The Modern Zero Trust Network

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Marposs Digital Platform

Marposs Digital Platform

NetFoundry | Marposs

Secure By Design

Connecting the Manufacturing World with the Digital World.

How Marposs and NetFoundry Overcame OT Security Challenges and Sales Friction To Drive Sales.
NetFoundry for IIoT
Marposs Case Study
NetFoundry | Product Providers | Factory and Warehousing
NetFoundry | Marposs
Marposs, a leader in precision testing and measurement, provides industrial solutions for quality control, automation, and connectivity. Their offerings include advanced monitoring technologies, sensors, and software for manufacturing. Learn more in the attached Marposs CASE STUDY BELOW.

https://www.marposs.com

Obstacle

Marposs’s digital platform faced resistance from customers due to security concerns. Marposs customers, operating very secure manufacturing sites, expressed concerns on the network-level access required by their Digital Platform, necessitating adherence to strong security principles.

Opportunity

Marposs could create, market and provide a next-generation digital platform for smart connected products, leveraging a modern zero trust architecture for enhanced security and simplified deployments in OT environments.

Outcome

By integrating NetFoundry’s Ziti networking, Marposs was able to securely deploy equipment in the most secure OT environments, effectively meeting customer requirements and unblocking their sales process. This integration enhanced security, reduced sales friction, and accelerated the sales process by incorporating critical components such as Kubernetes (K3s) integration, private DNS (e.g., marposs.grid), and remote management through embedded AppNets.

NetFoundry | Product Providers | Factory and Warehousing

Unlock Manufacturing Potential with NetFoundry

Enabling Secure and Innovative Solutions for Marposs

Discover how Marposs integrated Ziti to meet stringent security requirements and successfully launch their Digital Platform: MAINDO
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CEO

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Rodrigo Bernardinelli

CEO

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CEO

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Marposs Case Study

The Partnership

Marposs has partnered with NetFoundry to embed zero trust connectivity into their digital platform solution, MAINDO. This platform offers comprehensive monitoring and control capabilities for manufacturing processes, delivering a Total Quality solution to Marposs customers by uniting IoT data and quality management. MAINDO integrates a wide range of sensors, devices, and systems within manufacturing environments to seamlessly collect, analyze, and visualize data in real time, ensuring optimal performance and quality control.

Netfoundry’s zero trust connectivity allowed Marposs to securely deploy equipment in the most secure OT environments.
NetFoundry | MAINDO | Marposs

Product Challenge & Feature Requirements

Marposs’s Digital Platform had to by considered secure enough by their customers to be deployed in OT environments. However, Marposs’ products needed additional onboard resources, including secure networking capabilities, without interfering with the current measurement or monitoring processes that the products are designed to perform.

Connectivity and Software Complexity

Industrial PCs at Marposs run custom monolithic software that provides a tailored user interface. This software configures attached products, performs calculations, and interfaces with on-premises systems through custom integrations.

Customer Security Concerns

Marposs customers operate secure manufacturing sites and are resistant to network-level access. It is essential to maintain strong security principles in these environments to meet customer requirements.

Obstacle

Marposs aimed to create a Marposs Digital Platform product using a hybrid SaaS model for accessing their systems in OT environments but faced rejection from customers due to network-level access and security concerns. With Netfoundry’s zero trust connectivity designed in, Marposs was able to deploy equipment in the most secure OT environments.

Opportunity

Marposs aimed to leapfrog the competition and accelerate sales by simplifying and securing its connected product offerings. By leveraging a next-generation digital platform and a hybrid SaaS model, Marposs sought to enhance security and streamline remote service and data integration.

Leapfrog the Competition, Accelerate Sales

Marposs is poised to become a leader in measurement technology by simplifying and securing its connected product offerings. By developing a next-generation digital platform with zero trust connectivity, Marposs will enhance security. The hybrid SaaS model will streamline remote service and data integration. This approach will not only elevate the product experience but also strengthen customer relationships, setting Marposs apart from the competition.

Enable a Digital Transformation

MAINDO emerged with a focus on customer needs including enhancing security for safe cloud access, leveraging Industry 4.0 and 5.0 connectivity to optimize manufacturing processes, and centralizing production quality data globally to drive improvements. It automates quality management processes, digitizes asset management to reduce errors, and ensures continuous system updates for shop floor efficiency. Additionally, it delivers higher service levels and faster support response times, enhancing overall operational effectiveness.

Modernize Products and Connectivity

An opportunity existed to modernize their smart connected products by replacing the traditional Industrial PC with a Zero Trust edge device, the MAINDO EDGE. This would interface with all their products in an OT environment, host computational software modules, collect data for central analysis, and offer a new remote User Interface via apps on mobile devices connected to Cloud and Edge applications.

Exceeded Customer Security Requirements and Accelerated Sales

MAINDO leverages and is integrated into a secure, scalable, resilient and cloud-neutral infrastructure designed and implemented from scratch, which Marposs embedded secure Ziti connectivity into, to meet customer requirements, eliminate customer security concerns and unblock sales. Critical solution components included: Kubernetes Integration, Private DNS and Remote Management using NetFoundry AppNets for connectivity and microsegmentation.

Remote Configuration Management

Enables instant rollouts and rollbacks of software and configurations remotely, leveraging an automated zero trust model to configure the Edge Network to expose services to authorized entities.

Isolation and Security

The Cell Edge is isolated from LAN, WAN, and even the overlay itself, ensuring only authorized entities can communicate with other services. This level of isolation and security is critical for maintaining the integrity of the network.

Automation

Marposs has fully automated systems to streamline purchasing to deployment, minimizing human error through CI/CD pipeline and API integration.

Globally Distributed Service Mesh

Marposs implemented a globally distributed service mesh to facilitate remote management, upgrades, configuration, and data gathering. This system is fully resilient to support growth aligned with Marposs requirements.

Zero Trust Principles and Paradigm Shift

MAINDO is built to fully leverage the zero trust principles of the underlying robust, flexible and secure by design infrastructure, adopting a ‘never trust, always verify’ approach. This solution represents a paradigm shift, closing all inbound ports in their smart connected products and ensuring secure networking by embedding ‘zero trust connectivity as code.’ This approach includes identities and policies to control access rules for every resource connected to their platform.

Outcome

Marposs successfully embedded Ziti connectivity to exceed customer security requirements and unblock sales, leading to significant advancements in their digital platform capabilities.

MAINDO Digital Platform for Smart Connected Products

Architecture and Technical Details

Marposs integrated NetFoundry Ziti networking to enhance security, reduce sales friction, and accelerate the sales process, featuring Kubernetes integration, private DNS, and remote access through embedded AppNets.
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