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Press Release04 February 2021Digital IndustriesSiemens Korea, Seoul
Siemens Korea Digital Industries Signed MOU with Samjong KPMG for Cooperation in the Field of Industrial Cyber-security and New Technology Research
Thomas Schmid, Head of Digital Industries at Siemens Korea (Right), and Dae-Gil Jung, Head of consulting service in Samjong KPMG (Left), pose for a photo after signing an MOU at SLS headquarters in Chungjeong-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul on February 3, 2021
Digital Industries (DI) at Siemens Korea (Siemens
Ltd. Seoul·SLS) announced on the 4th that it has signed a business agreement
with Samjong KPMG to strengthen the OT (operation technology) security business
and ICS (industrial control system) new technology research cooperation at Siemens
Korea headquarters in Chungjeong-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul.
Thomas Schmid, Head of Digital
Industries at Siemens Korea, Dae-gil Jung, Head of consulting service in Samjong
KPMG, and officials from both companies attended the ceremony. According to the
agreement, the two companies will conduct joint research on OT·ICS security,
information protection, and digital convergence environment, and exchange expertise
on control and protection technology and global compliance. Mutual cooperation
is also underway to jointly promote new OT·ICS security technology and consulting
commercialization.
Siemens, a
global powerhouse in electrical engineering and electronics headquartered
in Berlin and Munich, Germany, is a global leader in providing integrated
solutions from product design to logistics and services for a smart
manufacturing environment. Through this agreement, Digital Industries at
Siemens Korea intends to cooperate with Samjong KPMG to effectively provide customers
with optimal OT security solutions and services that have been verified for
safety.
Samjong KPMG's Cyber
Security Service Team is a business process-based security consulting
organization established in 2013 and is composed of security experts in various
fields such as information security, digital technology security, OT security,
and cloud. It provides integrated information security services to customers
and companies by creating expertise in establishing an information security
management system including enterprise security analysis, planning, design, execution,
and monitoring.
Thomas Schmid, Head of Digital
Industries at Siemens Korea, said, “As a leader in digitalization, Siemens has
provided control systems, solutions and services in the measurement and control
fields of various industries such as petroleum, chemical, power and steel. As
the era of the 4th industrial revolution is in full swing, the demand for
security technologies for smart factories and production facilities is
increasing. We look forward to generating a synergy
effect by combining Siemens' IT-OT convergence knowledge and experience in the
process industry and Samjong KPMG's global consulting capabilities” and added,
“We will build a strong ecosystem with partners like Samjong KPMG to support
Korea's transition to a digital economy.”
Dae-Gil Jung, Head of
consulting service in Samjong KPMG, said, "The Samjong KPMG Cyber
Security Service Team is an organization with the richest OT security consulting
experience in Korea and expertise in various infrastructure industries" and
"Samjong KPMG's global consulting service know-how and Siemens Korea's
technology and experience Based on this, we will do our best to promote the
successful OT·ICS security business”.
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