Secure Industrial AI

Skkynet does what traditional OT and AI solutions cannot—access production data through a DMZ.

Connect Industrial AI through a DMZ

Secure access to production data

Using Skkynet’s Cogent DataHub™ software within a DMZ means no firewall ports open into the plant—zero attack surface. The DataHub instance on the plant network provides an outbound connection to the DMZ using the DHTP protocol, and the DataHub instance on the DMZ makes an outbound MQTT, DHTP, Kafka, or Event Stream connection to send data to the cloud.

One-way or bidirectional data flow

Each connection can be configured as read-only or read-write, to support data monitoring or supervisory control.

Unified namespace

In-plant connections integrate data from any supported industrial protocol into a single, unified namespace to optimize AI processing.

High performance

Real-time data is delivered at microseconds above network latency all while preserving the data model across networks.

Easily connect to cloud services

Pre-configured support for Azure IoT Hub and Event Streams, AWS IoT Core, and Apache Kafka. Also connects to any other cloud service running an MQTT broker like RabbitMQ or Mosquitto.

No incoming connections

Optional data diode mode can be used with or without data diode hardware to provide an extra layer of security, ensuring that absolutely no data passes into the OT system.