Information Security

Information security, or InfoSec, also known as cyber-security has become a critical aspect of software for operations.

Vitesse brings state-of-the-art security to operations

Vitesse aims to bring the latest software and security practices to the production floor, including better information security.
The Vitesse leadership team has successfully contributed to building mission-critical connected software solutions for leading manufacturers in the fields of aerospace, automotive and defense for more than a decade.

Vitesse is hosted on Linux and takes advantage of proven containerized services and applications. Vitesse applications are containerized themselves.
Building the VITESSE platform on Linux with containerized services and applications follows many best practices in modern information security (InfoSec) especially when compared to traditional automation control platforms.
Containers offer significant advantages in security and flexibility, particularly when isolated from the host system.

In August 2024, two of the most digitally advanced global manufacturers shared that “Vitesse is at least a decade ahead of traditional controls providers when it comes to cybersecurity” and “probably 5 years before competitors provide similar agility and ability to deploy distributed systems for operations, which is critical for security”.

"Vitesse is a decade ahead of traditional controls providers when it comes to cybersecurity"

Security advantages of using Vitesse and Linux

Traditional automation systems often run on centralized, embedded systems or isolated, legacy software stacks. These systems can be harder (and sometimes impossible) to patch, upgrade, or secure due to their tightly integrated nature and lack of modularity.

By contrast, our containerized, micro-services architecture allows for easier scaling, isolation, and patching. Vitesse is always ahead in terms of agility and security when compared to legacy industrial control systems:

• Isolation: Containers provide strong isolation between applications, preventing them from interfering with each other, which improves security compared to traditional monolithic automation platforms.
• Reduced Attack Surface: Containers tend to be more lightweight, running only essential services. This reduces the attack surface by minimizing the number of processes running on each container.
• Consistency: Using containers ensures consistency across environments (development, staging, and production), which reduces the chances of misconfigurations that can typically lead to vulnerabilities.
• Automated Updates & Patch Management: With a containerized approach, Vitesse can easily be rebuilt and redeployed as containers to patch specific vulnerabilities quickly, avoiding the slower patch cycles common in traditional automation systems.
• Immutable Infrastructure: Containers are often treated as immutable—rather than patching running systems, you simply replace them. This ensures systems remain clean, reducing the risk of security drifts over time.

Working with customers to improve InfoSec

We work with our customers to help them adopt and develop tools and practices to make their operations safe and secure.

We can help you define and deploy an adequate Linux image such as a minimized Ubuntu LTS system that will offer granular control, easy management on a reliable and well supported system. The next step will be to deploy containerized applications and services to increase security, reliability and ease of management. We can help progressively adopt Kubernetes and develop a distributed approach as part of a digitization roadmap with information security in mind.

In addition to accompany our clients in adopting these practices, we also recommend some tools to increase information security on site.

For instance, below the scan result of a client's own machine vision application, hosted on Vitesse. We worked with our client to containerize their application, making it more secure and easier to manage.
Each time their engineers make a change to the code or configuration, the security scanners stress-tests the application to detect potentiel cyber-security vulnerabilities, providing Vitesse clients with visibility on how secure their applications are:

Our specialists will be happy to help digitize your operations using the most secure practices.
You can read our articles about cyber-security, and contact us to know more!