SINEMA Remote Connect; users and roles

SINEMA Remote Connect Client

The management platform for remote networks, SINEMA Remote Connect, is a server application for the secure establishment of connections between users, widely distributed systems and machines. SINEMA Remote Connect permits the set up and administration of tunnel connections (VPN).

Secure remote maintenance can then carried out via the TIA Portal, for example. This avoids direct access to the corporate network in which the machine to be maintained is integrated. The stations that are to communicate with one another "meet" at a neutral location – the SINEMA Remote Connect. Here, the identity of the stations is determined by an exchange of certificates before access can be made to the corporate network.

Further features of SINEMA Remote Connect are:

• Central administration of all VPN connections
• Simple management of different users
• Multifactor authentication with user name/password and PKI smart card
• Address book function in SINEMA RC Client for fast and easy connection with SINEMA Remote Connect
• Establishment of encrypted connections with OpenVPN and IPsec per mouse click
• Support for current TLS 1.2 encryption method
• Protocol independent, IP-based communication
• Easy integration of the Siemens industrial routers by means of auto-configuration
• Optimum connection and simple selection of identical machines in series machine construction and for original equipment manufacturers (OEM)
• Offline licensing for activating user and device licenses on the server, even without an Internet connection
• Operation in virtual environment