Overview

Intended Audience

The Proficy CSense Secure Deployment help is intended for process control engineers, integrators, IT professionals, and developers responsible for deploying and configuring CSense.

What is Security?

Security is the process of maintaining the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of a system:

  • Confidentiality: Ensures only the people you want to see information can see it.

  • Integrity: Ensures the data is what it is supposed to be.

  • Availability: Ensures the system or data is available for use.

GE Vernova recognizes the importance of building and deploying software with these concepts in mind and encourages customers to take appropriate care in securing their GE Vernova products and solutions.

Defense in Depth

Defense in Depth is the concept of using multiple layers of security to raise the cost and complexity of a successful attack. To carry out a successful attack on a system, an attacker would need to find not just a single exploitable vulnerability but would also need to exploit vulnerabilities in each layer of defense that protects an asset.

For example, if a system is protected because it is on a network protected by a firewall, the attacker only needs to circumvent the firewall to gain unauthorized access. However, if there is an additional layer of defense, say a username/password authentication requirement, now the attacker needs to find a way to circumvent the firewall and the username/password authentication.

GE Vernova recommends a Defense-in-Depth security strategy for your products and solutions.

Security Information on the Web

For more on GE Vernova and security, see: https://www.gevernova.com/security.

Be sure to consult the GE Vernova support site regularly to stay up to date on security patches and updates.

  

CSense 2023- Last updated: June 24,2025