The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is finalizing two guidance documents and making available two draft guidance documents to help ensure the Security of Prescription Drugs as they move through the supply chain.

The need for significant improvement in the state of OT cybersecurity in critical infrastructures has been broadly acknowledged for almost two decades. Although the subject started to receive significant attention in the early 2000s, the reality is that the protection of operations systems from threats to their integrity and availability has been a concern of asset owners for much longer than that.

Those of us in engineering and technical disciplines are prone to develop our own “language,” consisting of abbreviations, acronyms, and other shorthand forms of expression. This is no different than those in other professions and areas of endeavor, such as attorneys, doctors, or scientists. While the use of such jargon is often seen as a convenient way of describing common terms and concepts, it can also be a barrier to understanding and acceptance, serving to cloud the essential and important concepts necessary for effective collaboration.

Data breaches affect all types of organizations – large and small, popular and little known. Are there any Data Breach Notification Laws?

Yokogawa Electric Corporation announced that it has obtained ISASecure CSA Level 1 certification from the ISA Security Compliance Institute (ISCI) for its ProSafe-RS safety instrumented system, a product in the OpreX Control and Safety System family.