Cybersecurity Viewpoints

I will be joining a webinar and panel discussion next Wednesday hosted by AutomaTech that will also feature Dr. Vincent Turmel, VP of Technical Operations for cybersecurity supplier Bayshore Networks and Eric Byers, CEO of aDolus where we will discuss cybersecurity budgetary planning and spending, with the primary driver being COVID-19 and its accompanying increase in cyber threats and risk.

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) announced the launch of 10 new Threat Management Centers across the globe, that will focus on providing cyber security services to its enterprise customers.

Underwriters Laboratory (UL) and The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) recently announced the SPIRE Smart Building Program that will offer both self-certification programs as well as Verified Assessment Ratings completed jointly by UL and TIA.

Rockwell Automation announced that it has acquired Oyla a privately-held industrial cybersecurity services provider based in Barcelona, Spain. 

Tata Consultancy Services and Yale University jointly announced the launch of a Secure Networking Platform Using Blockchain that could help ensure privacy and trust in peer-to-peer digital networks.

This video by Eric C. Cosman, ARC Contributing Consultant, provides an  in-depth, but non-technical overview of the The Esoteric World of Engineering Standards that apply to the engineering disciplines for automation professionals.

UL, a global safety science organization, announced the debut of its Supplier Cyber Trust Level solution, which helps organizations minimize supply chain cybersecurity risk

Now available as IEC 62443-3-2 and soon to be available for purchase as ISA-62443-3-2, this standard defines a set of engineering measures that guide an organization through the process of assessing the risk of a particular industrial control system and identifying and applying security countermeasures to reduce the security risk to tolerable levels.

The prevalence of small, unprotected industrial control systems is undermining the security of our critical infrastructure, and practical industrial cybersecurity solutions enable security for all facilities

Improving the cybersecurity of industrial control and other operational technology (OT) systems has been a subject of focus for many years. Several cybersecurity standards, practices and guidelines are being used successfully by industrial organizations around the world.