Hardening Cyber Security - Universal Robots e-Series Original Instructions Manual

1. Introduction
• You have a thourough understanding of general cyber security principles and advanced
technologies as used in your Universal Robots robot.
• You take physical security measures to allow only trusted personnel physical access to the
robot.
• You only connect your robot to a trusted network, behind a firewall restricting both inbound
and outbound access to/from the Internet.

1.8.2. Hardening Cyber Security

Although PolyScope includes many features for keeping the network connection secure, you can
harden security by observing to following guidelines:
• Always set an Admin password (see
connecting your robot to any network.
• Use the built-in settings to restrict the network access to the robot as much as possible.
• Some communication interfaces have no method of authenticating connections made. In
some applications this is a security liability.
• Use local port forwarding (see
and secure connection, if you require remote access to the motion controlling interfaces of
the robot. For example: the Dashboard Server and the Primary/Secondary/Realtime Client
Interfaces.
• Remove sensitive data from the robot before it is decommissioned. Pay particular attention
to the URCaps (see
Software Manual
13.3.2. Admin Password on
Enabling SSH access on
7.14. URCaps on page 111) and data in the program folder.
page 190) to setup an authenticated
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