General safety instructions
1.3 Industrial security
Replacing an encoder for SIMOTICS S-1FK7 G2, S-1FG1 and S-1FT7
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Software manipulations (e.g. viruses, trojans, malware or worms) can cause unsafe
operating states in your system that may lead to death, serious injury, and property
damage.
• Keep the software up to date.
• Incorporate the automation and drive components into a holistic, state-of-the-art
industrial security concept for the installation or machine.
• Make sure that you include all installed products into the holistic industrial security
concept.
• Protect files stored on exchangeable storage media from malicious software by with
suitable protection measures, e.g. virus scanners.
• Protect the drive against unauthorized changes by activating the "know-how protection"
drive function.