Passthrough Manager

Secure, transparent remote access to substation IEDs

Part of Yukon IED Manager Suite, Passthrough Manager provides an enterprise-level secure single point of access to IEDs for maintenance and engineering. Passthrough Manager is comprised of a client, installed on users’ workstations, and a server, installed in a central location, which manages connections between remote IEDs and users on the corporate network.

With the Passthrough Manager, users can access IEDs via native vendor tools, with comprehensive access control.

• Enterprise-level, centralized connection management
• Transparent remote access to IEDs from any application
• NERC CIP-compliant usage logs
• IED and gateway passwords become hidden from users
• Makes legacy IEDs and gateways available remotely in a secure manner

Features and Benefits

Transparent remote access

• Users can connect to any substation IED to which they have access
• Connection parameters, password and communication encryption is preconfigured in Passthrough Manager: users connect as if they were in the substation
• Support for dial-up and TCP/IP passthrough

Secure remote access

• Central security ensures that only authorized users are allowed to connect to IEDs
• When used with SMP Gateway, local security at the substation level protects IEDs from unauthorized access in the event that the link to the corporate servers is down
• Passthrough Manager uses Security Server’s link to the corporate security infrastructure to authenticate users, using two factor authentication if available
• Centralized authentication
• Centralized user management
• Access rights based on region and IED
• Meets NERC CIP requirements
• Individual user accounts
• Audit log of all IED accesses and data exchange
• Prevents users from remotely. changing IED passwords
• Communication encryption