Nextnine

For June 21, 2017 Nextnine is developer company of technologies of industrial cyber security.

History

2017

Completion of the transaction with Honeywell

On August 10 the Honeywell corporation announced completion of process of acquisition of Nextnine company. As noted, it is integrated into division of cyber defense of industrial facilities of corporation at the expense of what Honeywell expanded the range of solutions in the field of ensuring the protected remote access and also monitoring and support for protection of industrial management systems and critical information infrastructure against the growing threat of cyber attacks.^[1]

Technologies and the talented staff of Nextnine will strengthen positions of Honeywell in the market of complete corporate solutions for cyber defense of industrial infrastructure. These technologies will be directed to risk reduction, connected with cyber security, reliability augmentation of systems and also performance improvement and reduction of cost of transactions for our integrated customer base — Jeff Zindel, the vice president and the CEO of division of cyber defense of industrial facilities of Honeywell said.

As a result of the transaction of Honeywell-Nextnine scalable and flexible solutions of the enterprise level are available to customers and partners of both companies to management of cyber defense of the production infrastructure integrating a set of objects and industrial management systems of different suppliers. Also clients had an opportunity to use the optimized managed services of security (Managed Security Services) for cyber defense of industrial facilities which provide asset management and rules, a full compliance to standards of security, continuous monitoring and the notification and also integration with products of Honeywell for cyber defense, including Risk Manager and Advanced Threat Intelligence Exchange (ATIX).

In addition, the protected data exchange and remote access with management and data protection of the customer which can be extended to additional assets are available to clients and be used for safe file transfer. As a bonus the customer and to partners of Nextnine offers continued full-scale support and also development of the optimized technologies.

Merge to Honeywell

On June 21 the Honeywell corporation announced agreement signature about Nextnine acquisition.

Security systems and the protected services of remote access Nextnine will help to expand the range of technologies of Honeywell and the customer base of Honeywell Connected Plant in the field of cyber security^[2].

Every day the number of the cyber attacks directed to industrial enterprises and the major infrastructure facilities around the world increases. This acquisition is the evidence of our continuous aspiration to propose to customers an exhaustive set of the solutions for ensuring cyber defense designed to protect industrial management systems and networks of management of technology processes. Thanks to global presence of Honeywell of the solution Nextnine will become available to more wide range of customers. Vimal Kapur, president of division "Industrial automation' of Honeywell

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