Wylie said the Rockwell Automation has an internal security team dedicated to working with security researchers.
Most analysts think investors should stand pat on Rockwell Automation, with six of 11 analysts rating it hold.
Rockwell Automation (ROK) manufactures tools and controls used to increase efficiency at factories.
The majority of analysts think investors should stand pat on Rockwell Automation, with seven of 13 analysts rating it hold.
Within the next seven days, Rockwell Automation will release a patch for a supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) vulnerability first made public last Friday.
The majority of analysts (53.8%) rate Rockwell Automation as a buy.
In late August Keith Nosbusch, chief executive of Rockwell Automation, spent two draining weeks meeting with 147 current and would-be customers in China, Japan, Korea and India.
However, Douglas Wylie, Business Development Manager for Networks and Security at Rockwell Automation said in-house research found the vulnerability to be more pervasive within the Rockwell family of software.
Rockwell Automation, which makes machinery and software for mostly industrial customers, said Wednesday that its first-quarter sales in Asia dropped 16 percent compared with the same period a year earlier.
Mr Li, from China's Chengdu province, targeted software from big manufacturers including Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and Rockwell Automation before selling them on to 325 buyers, including a Nasa engineer as well as military contractors.
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