Cybersecurity Viewpoints

Awareness of the cybersecurity risks to industrial systems has increased significantly in recent years in response to several widely reported incidents.  It is now generally accepted that either a targeted or non-targeted attack could trigger serious consequences, even with cybersecurity profiles.

Economic Cities are a strategic project for the Kingdom of Saudi-Arabia.  ‘Vision 2030’ is driving the efforts to diversify and modernize its economy.

Process safety systems, turbine control systems, terminal automation systems, and many other kinds of systems and assets must be considered in a comprehensive cybersecurity risk management strategy, and that strategy should also include the risk in maritime transportation and port infrastructure.

Process safety systems, turbine control systems, terminal automation systems, and many other kinds of systems and assets must be considered in a comprehensive cybersecurity risk management strategy, and that strategy should also include the risk in maritime transportation and port infrastructure.

At the 2019 ARC Japan Forum in Tokyo last month, Trend Micro shared its cyber-defense approach against OT cyber threats with the Forum’s approximate 250 attendees from various industrial sectors.

Show me the money. Show me the money, Jerry! The memorable lines spoken by Cuba Gooding Jr as footballer Rod Tidwell to his underperforming sports agent Jerry Maguire, played of course by Tom Cruise in the 1996 movie.

ARC Advisory Group recently completed a research project to review global process automation and engineering roles and how industry leaders are aligning skills and training requirements with the technological challenges. This led to this report on Best Practices for Automation Capability and Organizational Assessment.

The Smart City Implementation Paradox describes the situation that the Smart City ecosystem finds in widely divergent situations worldwide. In short, while there is a plethora of very compelling applications, many with very short financial paybacks – the adoption rate of these solutions has been increasing however at a rate that is far below even the most conservative forecasts. One approach to surmount this obstacle is to have a much better, very comprehensive understanding of the communities that drive the decision-making – or decision-delaying, along with their underlying user needs.

Honeywell introduced the next generation of Enterprise Building Integration (EBI), Command and Control Suite (CCS), and Digital Video Manager (DVM), a suite of solutions enabled by the Honeywell Forge for Buildings platform.

Continuous OT network monitoring has become an essential part of every industrial/OT cybersecurity strategy.