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Compatibility & restrictions

Siemens’ products and solutions undergo continuous development to make them more secure. Siemens strongly recommends that product updates are applied as soon as they are available and that the latest product versions are always used. Use of product versions that are no longer supported, and failure to apply the latest updates may increase customer’s exposure to cyber threats.

You can find information on security patches and security updates on the Internet:

  • To stay informed about security vulnerabilities and their remedies, subscribe to the Siemens Industrial Cybersecurity RSS feed at: https://www.siemens.com/cert
    Regularly check whether your product is referenced in the RSS feed and follow the recommendations of Siemens ProductCERT.
  • You can find the latest updates for your product on the Siemens download page.
  • If you have any questions about security patches, get in touch with your contact person.
    You can find your local contact via the contact database on the Internet.

Information on Open Source Software

If Open Source Software is included in the product, the product or an update is accompanied by an OSS document that provides information about the software components used.

Component Compatibility

To minimize side effects due to incompatibilities, it should only be used versions which are compatible to each other.
See therefore the following information, which will be supplemented as far as further incompatibilities (of new versions) get known:

Compatiblity between IEH & IEM

There are up no now no compatibility restrictions for connecting a IEM to the IEH.

Compatibility between IEM & IED

The full compatibility for operation is ensured and tested for the respective last version of IED & IEM.

For Onboarding and Updating purpuse the compatibility is given from IED v1.12 upwards to a current IEM version.
Incremental updates have to be used. (see also Update Strategy)

Malware protection restrictions

There are no restrictions regarding the use of malware protection known.

For further information regarding malware protection can be found in the chapter Malware protection.