Northern Dynamic Inc - Product Update Announcement

Product Update Announcement from Northern Dynamic Inc.

February 2005. OPC Security Interface Support added to our OPC Data Access (DA) Toolkits.

Your OPC server likely contains sensitive production data or information that is valuable to the enterprise. Protecting this information from unauthorized access is important to your organization. Now, with Northern Dynamic OPC DA Toolkits, adding OPC Security is easy-to-do!

Updated Products

The following data access toolkits now ship with a programmable OPC Private Security Interface that is both easy-to-implement and fully compliant with the OPC Security Interface 1.0 standard:

OPC Data Access Toolkit (TKDA-30) (more...)
A Visual C++ toolkit for embedding OPC Foundation compliant DA server interfaces in new or existing software applications.

OPC Data Access Toolkit (TKDA-30-CE) (more...)
A Windows CE.Net toolkit for embedding OPC Foundation compliant DA server interfaces in new or existing software applications.

OPC SLIK Data Access Toolkit (SLIK-DA-30) (more...)
A .NET Windows Form and ActiveX Control used to quickly add robust OPC Data Access server interfaces to your C#, VB.NET, and Visual Basic applications.

OPC SLIK Data Access Client (SLIK-DAC-20) (more...)
A .NET Windows Form and ActiveX Control used by developers and integrators to build OPC Data Access client applications using C#, VB.NET, and Visual Basic.

Benefits of Our Security Interface Implementation

Our OPC DA server toolkits provide a complete implementation of the OPC Private Security Interface that goes beyond providing simple interface hooks. They ship with the following features, and sample source code, designed to make your job easier.

Client Logon
With OPC private security, clients must explicitly logon before being allowed access to any secured object.

Unique Security Credentials
Private security credentials allow you to isolate server security from underlying network security.

Security Granularity
Two levels of security granularity give you added flexibility and control. Server level security allows you to define user access rights for all items in the server namespace. Item level granularity allows you to assign user access rights to individual items or to groups of items.

High Performance
Our OPC Private Security implementation imposes virtually no overhead to normal OPC server processing.

Rapid Implementation
Modify the sample server (provided with our evaluation software) to get your security implementation working quickly.

Security Interface Testing
Our SLIK-DAC Toolkit, for rapidly building Data Access clients, has security features added as well. Use this toolkit to develop a client that can effectively test your server security implementation.

Visit us at www.OPCexperts.com for more information or to download our evaluation software.

Need Assistance with an OPC Application? Contact our OPC Experts!

Northern Dynamic's OPC Experts can help you use and integrate OPC technology in a variety of web-based and traditional applications:

Advanced supervisory control
Industrial data management
Data warehousing
Plant floor integration and reporting
Utility monitoring and reporting
Automation system integration to ERP and MES systems
Event and alarm management systems
Software intensive automation systems and test cells

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