Protect Cyber Assets at the Enterprise Level

At the enterprise level, IED Manager Suite is a software suite that links the corporate users to the substation and their devices. Cooper Power Systems’ security solution uses the Security Server, Passthrough Manager and IED Manager.

While competitors simply provide a secure passthrough solution, IED Manager Suite also provides automated data retrieval features. IED Manager Suite makes substation data available to all authorized corporate users, from a secure, central location within the corporate network. Instead of having each user connect individually to IEDs, they can retrieve the data already extracted from the IED from the IED Manager Suite server.

Security Server connects to the client’s existing corporate security infrastructure and provides centralized authentication and authorization services for all Cooper Power Systems products.

Security Server secures access to substation devices

• Add, modify and remove access rights from a central location, rapidly
• Implement central monitoring and reporting
• Track user access to critical substation cyber assets
• Hide SMP Gateway passwords from users
• Produce the CIP-required user activity audit trail

Passthrough Manager establishes a transparent connection between a client application and a remote IED, through an SMP Gateway, a SEL 203x gateway, or a direct IP connection. It provides a central point of access and password management for IEDs.

With 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

Event Manager automatically retrieves event data from IEDs and notifies key personnel via pager or email. Maintenance and operations personnel can then access event data online, to quickly begin diagnosis and even restore power remotely.

• Instant, automatic email notification of protective relay trips and power disturbances
• Efficient team management via geographic and event type alarm dispatch
• File pushing: Enterprise Event Manager receives event files immediately instead of waiting for the daily poll or a manual poll.

IED Manager provides a centralized location to manage the inventory, configuration change history, backup and restore IED configuration and passwords of IEDs and SMP Gateways installed in the field.

With IED Manager Suite, utilities transform substation data into valuable enterprise information, in secure, NERC CIP-compliant manner.

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