Siemens SIMATIC WinCC is a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system designed to monitor, control and visualize industrial processes in real time. It collects data from field devices, PLCs and control systems, and provides operators with a centralized interface to supervise operations, manage alarms and interact with industrial processes.
As a scalable and open platform, WinCC enables seamless integration across distributed industrial environments, from single plants to large multi-site infrastructures. It combines real-time data acquisition, process visualization, alarm management and historical data archiving, making it a central component of OT/IT convergence and industrial digitalization initiatives.
In a standard OT deployment, WinCC sits at the supervisory layer (Level 2) of the automation pyramid, receiving real-time data from field-level controllers such as Siemens S7 PLCs (Level 1) via PROFINET, MPI or OPC UA. This architectural dependency means that securing WinCC’s data pipelines requires addressing the entire chain — from PLC to SCADA — and that is precisely where Cyberium’s OWA data diode operates: unidirectionally extracting WinCC operational data towards IT, without ever creating a return path into the OT network.