Cognex Cybersecurity Trust Center

We build your security into everything we do

At Cognex, we take your security seriously, devoting teams of dedicated security professionals and significant development work to stay ahead of the evolving threat environment. The modern automated factory is hyperconnected – and we won’t let it be an attack path into the enterprise.

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Cognex Commitment to Cybersecurity

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Certificates
Assessments and Questionnaires
TISAX Assessments

We maintain compliance with all relevant regulations, security best practices, and specific industry standards, including:

Cognex acknowledges and fully supports the European Union’s commitment to strengthening the cyber resilience of hardware and software products with digital elements available in the EU market, as set forth by the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). Click here to view the statement.
An Information Security Management System (ISMS) to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, availability and privacy of our information technologies and systems. Our ISMS and all systems involved in product development and customer data handling are certified to meet the requirements of ISO/IEC 27001:2022.
Our software development life cycle policies and processes ensure that our products are free of vulnerabilities, kept up to date against new security vulnerabilities, and protected against manipulation.
We manage our cybersecurity roadmap and investments using the CMMI Institute's Common Maturity Model Integration framework to improve our cybersecurity program.
We’re committed to securing TISAX security labels for our products used in auto manufacturing.
Cognex follows the IEC 62443 standard focused on cybersecurity for Industrial Automation and Control Systems (IACS), including the frameworks for risk assessment, security policies, network security, access control, and incident management. This ensures our products meet important cybersecurity standards for industrial control systems throughout their lifecycle, from design to operation.
Cognex's cloud services and web-based user interfaces follow OWASP security design principles and SOC2 Type II control requirements for the infrastructure, services and operations that support and deliver those cloud services.

Certificates

We are extremely proud of the ISO certification we’ve earned for our development processes and our facilities around the world.

Assessments and Questionnaires

To help you assess how Cognex measures up to essential security practices, we offer several questionnaires that answer common security questions. If you need additional information for your assessment or have questions, reach out to our Customer Success Team by opening a case here.

The Product Security Questionnaire uses the Capability Model Maturity Integration (CMMI) assessment model to describe the secure software development life cycle (Secure SDLC).
The SIG Lite 2024 Questionnaire standardizes how organizations perform third-party risk assessments in several areas, including questions related to information security controls.
The ISO 27001 OPTIV Questionnaire covers information security controls, providing a broad, high-level overview of our company-wide information security controls.
The CIS Security Controls Questionnaire includes questions related to critical information security controls, including mitigation of the most prevalent cyberattacks.

TISAX Assessments

The Trusted Information Security Assessment Exchange (TISAX) is an information security assessment and exchange mechanism between automobile manufacturers and their suppliers.

To best serve our customers in the automotive sector, Cognex has received TISAX labels for these divisions and sites that support our European market:

For the assessment results, visit the ENX portal and register for access.

Cognex expects to secure additional TISAX assessments that support our Americas and Asia Pacific markets in 2026.