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See the unseen from a new perspective

SDM600

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Service and cyber security at your fingertips

System Data Manager SDM600

Utilities are properly focused on their primary business: the delivery of electricity, gas, and other services, over the operational network - but to ensure continuous supply the utility needs a second network, one devoted to monitoring and managing the first one.

That second network uses fiber optics, Ethernet switches, and protection relays, but as it grows in complexity it needs a new kind of management, one capable of seeing the unseen, protecting the unguarded, and mastering the unwieldy.

SDM600 is a comprehensive software solution for automatic management of service and cyber security relevant data across your substations.

Automated, system wide disturbance recorder management

Centralized cyber security management for modern networks

Tracking your maintenance relevant information from IEC

61850 relays

SDM600 sees the unseen: with support for IEC61850 protection relays and the capability to talk to legacy equipment through the File

Transfer Protocol, it interrogates relays around the network.

SDM600 watches the watchers, by creating a single point of management for user accounts and access control, and by logging security events that affects the network.

From those relays it gathers disturbance recorder files and analyses the incoming data to produce short reports. This way utilities can see patterns of activity or identify event correlations which previously have been hidden.

Cyber security is a vital component in modern networks, but fragmented access policies across network devices risk exposing critical vulnerabilities.

The dispersed nature of automation networks has complicated tasks such as withdrawing staff credentials, or removing default passwords.

The centralized storage of disturbance files enables them to be extracted with ease. It enables the data to be shared with analysis software or aggregated with data from the rest of the grid to create a complete view of operations.

SDM600 brings back the simplicity by providing a single place in which accounts can be managed and access controlled: a gatekeeper to the automation network.

SDM600 masters the unmanaged, checking up on protection relays to ensure the user can quickly confirm they are running the latest software, and tracking changes to the relay configuration.

The complexity of modern software demands it becomes a changeable thing, constantly updated in response to new security concerns, or functionality fixes, or to add new features. Relays are no exception to this, and keeping track of software versions can become difficult without handing the workload over to SDM600. SDM600 doesn’t just monitor every protection relay to see that it’s running the latest version of its software. The system also watches for changes to the configuration by providing unparalleled visibility across the whole network.

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Information is only as good as the way in which it’s displayed

With a web-based interface SDM600 creates a unique visualization of the automation network and the relays of which it is comprised. Cyber security events, disturbance reports, user accounts, and relay software versions are all collected into a single dashboard from which the user can share the insight of the SDM600, and see the unseen from a new perspective.

The dashboard graphically visualizes the different event types to answer where and when it happened. Correlations and patterns can be identified efficiently.

Dedicated lists for disturbance and cyber security events allow the user to filter for specific information based on the automatically collected data. Maintenance related relay information, like firmware versions can be exported into re-usable spreadsheet format.

Embedded statistics help to manage and potentially optimize the configuration of the system. With the flexible and scalable architecture SDM600 keeps the infrastructure cost at a minimum yet ensuring high availability.

Every collected disturbance recorder file can be visualized in a PDF based short report. The report highlights the most important facts about the disturbance and can easily be shared with other persons.

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SDM600 is based on flexible and remotely accessible system architecture. It provides you with efficient data and user management of all stations from one central point.

SDM600

SYS600C

SYS600C SYS600C SYS600C

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SDM600 SDM600

RTU560 with SDM600

Substation A

Key features:

Data management

Automatically collect, store and provide evaluation for disturbance recorder files.

Substation B Substation C

Cyber security management

Provide centralized user account management and security logging for modern networks.

Maintenance and service

Documentation of configuration and version information of the supervised devices.

Disturbance recorder data management

Central user account management

Managing RTU500 firmware and configuration files

Disturbance recorder data evaluation

Your benefits:

Vendor independent

– Based on international standards

(IEC 61850, IEC 62351)

– Every compliant device is supported

Efficiency improvement in disturbance recorder management

– Automatic DR file collection, representation, and evaluation.

Monitoring relay configuration changes

– Tracking and visualization of configuration and version changes

Central cyber security logging

Tracking version information

Efficient monitoring of user activity and cyber security events

– System wide security event logging

Optimized user management

– Coherent users in the SA system

– System wide role based user account management

Automatic and intuitive graphical event correlation

– Unique visualization of events in the dashboard

Minimal configuration effort

– Re-use of already engineered data by IEC 61850 .scl or .csv file import

Flexible and remotely accessible system architecture

– Hierarchical SDM600 using lean, web based technology

Scalable product

– Functionality controlled only with the license key

High availability

– Optional SDM600 Hot-

Standby setup ensures a highly available system

Contact us

ABB Oy

Grid Automation Products

P.O. Box 614

FI-65101 Vaasa

FINLAND

Tel. +358 10 22 11

Fax. +358 10 224 1094 www.abb.com/substationautomation

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