Emerson DeltaV, a cutting-edge distributed control system, empowers you with an intuitive interface, providing real-time process monitoring, alarming, and control. It's designed for industries such as chemical, power, refining, and metals & mining. The system offers scalability, redundancy, and high availability, ensuring reliable operations. With its advanced features, it helps optimize production efficiency, improve safety, and reduce costs.
Emerson DeltaV, a cutting-edge distributed control system, empowers you with an intuitive interface, providing real-time process monitoring, alarming, and control. It's designed for industries such as chemical, power, refining, and metals & mining. The system offers scalability, redundancy, and high availability, ensuring reliable operations. With its advanced features, it helps optimize production efficiency, improve safety, and reduce costs.
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Table of Contents
Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................................. 3
Supported Antivirus Applications ............................................................................................................................................. 3
Antivirus Software Setup ........................................................................................................................................................... 3
Updating Antivirus Signatures ................................................................................................................................................... 3
Antivirus Scan Engine Application Updates ............................................................................................................................ 3
Additional Information ............................................................................................................................................................... 4
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Introduction
The DeltaV™ automation system provides robustness, integrity, and responsiveness for use in critical process automation.
Emerson delivers these critical automation system performance expectations by testing supported antivirus software
applications for use with the DeltaV control system.
Supported Antivirus Applications
Emerson only supports specic versions of McAfee and Symantec solutions for all current versions of DeltaV systems.
These specic antivirus versions have been tested and validated to provide protection for DeltaV systems without causing
“false positive” indications for signature-based monitoring.
All currently supported versions of antivirus for use with DeltaV systems can be referenced in these Knowledge Base Articles:
AP-0400-0004 and AK-1600-0076. Customers are expected to choose one of these products to deploy tested, certied,
and supported antivirus software on a DeltaV.
Antivirus Software Setup
Supported installation methods include use of ePO to push Antivirus agents to machines or having Emerson services deploy
the Antivirus solution. Antivirus can be congured for real-time scanning on DeltaV workstations. Additional information on
antivirus application updates is contained in the DeltaV whitepaper: System Software Update Deployment.
Updating Antivirus Signatures
DeltaV system workstations must not be directly connected to the Internet to obtain updated virus data les. The DeltaV
system only supports manual distribution and installation of virus signatures on workstation nodes, or distribution through
Integrated Patch Management for the DeltaV System. Signature les may be installed and updated at monthly or even
daily intervals – it is at the customer’s discretion.
We have not found it necessary to test each McAfee and Symantec virus signature le update with the DeltaV system and
they are pre-approved to be installed in DeltaV systems; however, Emerson does perform a monthly DeltaV compatibility
test of the latest available virus signature les in conjunction with the compatibility testing of Microsoft security updates.
Customers subscribed to Guardian Support may elect to receive a monthly notication indicating the date/version of the
most recently checked virus signature le. Whether installing all virus signature le updates or only those checked by
Emerson, it is highly suggested that all virus signature les rst be deployed on a test system or single computer to ensure
compatibility prior to full deployment.
For further information on the cybersecure, easy and cost-eective update procedure built for DeltaV, please refer to the
Integrated Patch Management for the DeltaV System whitepaper.
Antivirus Scan Engine Application Updates
It is the responsibility of the user to stay informed of scan engine software updates that may be distributed by the antivirus
software vendor. The DeltaV system provides vendor patch support only for the currently shipping version of antivirus
software. Patch support is limited to testing the update for incompatibilities with the currently shipping DeltaV software.
Vendor-supplied updates for previous versions of the scan engine software are not supported, nor is testing of new antivirus
software with previous DeltaV versions.
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Additional Information
If customers desire to use other unsupported versions or other antivirus products/solutions, we can quote SureService
Integration testing services to test those solutions.
No group within Emerson can approve or certify a dierent antivirus solution or implementation from the standard solutions
listed above. Any opinions on usability or risk in using other antivirus solutions are those of the specic individual making
the statements and are not to be construed as implying or promising support for any other solution not documented above.
Emerson provides this information as an aid to customers for implementation and deployment of Antivirus within a DeltaV
system. Antivirus is only one layer of security in a comprehensive plan for a cybersecurity program. Even with proper
installation and setup of this, or any other, antivirus solution, Emerson makes no guarantee that your DeltaV system
will remain free from successful virus attacks.
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Emerson DeltaV, a cutting-edge distributed control system, empowers you with an intuitive interface, providing real-time process monitoring, alarming, and control. It's designed for industries such as chemical, power, refining, and metals & mining. The system offers scalability, redundancy, and high availability, ensuring reliable operations. With its advanced features, it helps optimize production efficiency, improve safety, and reduce costs.
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