Top cybersecurity tips for Businesses

For SMEs (small to medium-sized enterprises) in Australia, prioritizing cybersecurity is key to protect themselves. Start by using strong, unique passwords and enabling multi-factor authentication to protect your systems. Regularly backing up your data ensures you can recover from incidents like ransomware attacks. Investing in small, compact firewalls such as the Microwalls from W&T can […]
W&T Microwall: New Discover-Mode

Application: Discover with the Microwall – Check devices in your own network How it all started: More structure and security in the network With the Microwall, more complex network structures can be divided into several sub-nets. As a firewall router, the Microwall monitors and controls the communication between the individual network segments. This makes the […]
Agile IoT Service, Custom Solutions from W&T

Can you imagine retrofitting sensors in your system, capturing signals for further processing, connecting self-contained systems to each other or incorporating additional actuators? No problem! And if needed W&T can also implement monitoring and recording of data points, creating application-specific visualisations or sending alarms for defined events. In addition they offer the ability to link […]
WireGuard – fast, modern, secure VPN Tunnel

The W&T Microwall VPN Firewall router has WireGuard integrated, an extremely simple yet fast and modern VPN that utilizes state-of-the-art cryptography. It aims to be faster, simpler, leaner, and more useful than IPsec, while avoiding the massive headache. It intends to be considerably more performant than OpenVPN. WireGuard is designed as a general purpose VPN […]
The MQTT.box is your broker solution

The MQTT.box from Wiesemann & Theis (W&T) is a Mosquitto MQTT broker for DIN rail mounting. It can operate as a standalone Mosquitto MQTT broker in the network and enables secure communication between network-capable automation components using MQTT protocol. The unique feature of MQTT is that two communication partners exchanging data with each other never […]
IT and OT – secure free spaces

IT security for operative technologies. Industrial manufacturing is based on the pillars of information and operational technology: in short, IT and OT. IT tasks include data processing and strategic planning of production on the company level, whereas OT handles specific control of the individual production lines and equipment. Both areas work towards the same company […]
Segmentation: Router- vs. Bridge Mode

Bridge: Microwall Bridge The Microwall Bridge operates transparently as far as the IP ranges are concerned. This means the IP ranges (Net-IDs) of the surrounding network and the island side are identical. Nevertheless, cross-network connections are only possible after establishing express release rules based on the respective involved IP addresses and TCP/UDP port numbers. Preferred […]
Protecting machines and equipment without changing the IP setup

The Microwall Bridge (Firewall) provides security when needed, quickly and simply and this without changing the IP configuration. The preferred area of application is therefore the easiest possible, add-on security expansion of existing infrastructures. Segmenting network and isolating of sensitive network areas is one of the basic measures in virtually any IP security concept for […]
Network one-way street

The Fix Defined Firewall links computers to networks with no feedback, so that the computers are able to receive only. All received network packets are passed on in one direction to the reading host. Data traffic to the safe network is not possible – neither from the reading computer nor from the firewall itself. How […]
Protect your machines and systems

Do you know the new W&T Microwall IO unit has Digital IO on board that you can use to enable/disable the firewall with a physical switch or a PLC output controlled by time logic? The 55212 Microwall IO is a standard Microwall with Digital I/O on-board. You can programme these I/O to change the state […]