Digital Maintenance Gateway
Efficient & Secure Rail Digital Maintenance
Reduce maintenance time and cost, and enhance cybersecurity with a holistic digital maintenance solution enabling secure remote updates to onboard and wayside systems.
Overview
Digital Maintenance Gateway (DMG) improves security and efficiency when updating onboard and wayside systems by eliminating the need for dedicated service laptops and USBs. Ensuring you can make better use of skilled maintenance staff and improve cyber security using a secure managed point of access to run maintenance applications.
Engineers can log into a familiar and consistent working environment using unique secure local access including Multi Factor Authentication. They can then complete file updates securely and without the risk of introducing malware from outdated laptops or USBs.
Key Benefits
Reduce Maintenance Cost
Eliminate reliance on service laptops, freeing up skilled maintenance staff to work efficiently and deploy controlled distribution of firmware and configuration files for faster updates.
Control Access
Identify individual users connecting to the on-board network and authenticate them securely with unique credentials, preventing anonymous access.
Audit Activity & Monitoring
Improve compliance with full monitoring and traceability of your maintenance activity which supports the capture of learning outcomes and allows quick diagnosis of issues.
Eliminate Cyber Vulnerabilities
Prevent the addition of unauthorised applications or malware by isolating service laptops from potentially insecure on-board systems, removing the need to use USB sticks.
Key Capabilities
Secure Remote Access
Remote access is limited to authorised engineers who can only connect to specific assets in an agreed time frame. Local access is possible via a physical network interface.
Secure Digital Environment
Engineers interact with existing maintenance applications in a familiar desktop environment. Every session starts in a clean state ensuring users cannot add applications or malware.
Fleet-Wide File Distribution
Files for digital maintenance are centrally managed, checked for integrity, and synchronised to an on-board file store, making them available on the vehicle at the point of use.
Task Automation
Automate repetitive or manually intensive maintenance processes as updates can be performed in parallel on several train units at the same time.
Limit Exposure of On-Board Systems
Isolate laptops from potentially insecure on-board systems, substantially reducing the cyber attack surface.
DfT TRIG Digital Maintenance Project
In 2022, RazorSecure worked with the University of Birmingham BCRRE to demonstrate a proof of concept solution for secure maintenance operations capable of integration with legacy and new build rail vehicles, to protect the integrity and reliability of rail passenger services. This was funded by the UK Department for Transport TRIG (Transport Research and Innovation Grant) and supported by Connected Places Catapult. The project ran from March 2022 to September 2022.
