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ICS Cybersecurity in Digital Transformation Initiatives

by Jim Cahill, Peter Zornio, Michael Lester | Sep 21, 2020 | Cybersecurity, Digital Transformation

Emerson Automation Solutions CTO Peter Zornio & Director of Cybersecurity Michael Lester were joined by Dragos CEO Robert M. Lee to discuss cybersecurity in digital transformation initiatives. In the webinar, Enable a Secure Digital Transformation with your ICS, Robert, Peter and Michael discussed ways to deal with the challenges of an increased attack surface from increase connections and flows of data to a wider group of people.

Successful Remote Connectivity Strategies Start with Cybersecurity

by Todd Walden, Alexandre Peixoto | Sep 11, 2020 | Cybersecurity, Digital Transformation, Industrial IoT, Operational Excellence, Operator Performance, Reliability, Remote Automation

Industrial manufacturing organizations have faced several challenges in the last few years. Perhaps the biggest change has been the need for personnel to perform critical tasks from outside the plant. This move toward more remote work has likely spurred more recent...

Cybersecurity and Digital Transformation

by Jim Cahill, Michael Lester, Peter Zornio | Sep 9, 2020 | Cybersecurity, Digital Transformation

On September 14, 1pm EDT webinar, Enable a Secure Digital Transformation with your ICS, Emerson Automation Solutions’ Chief Technology Officer Peter Zornio and Director of Cybersecurity Strategy, Governance & Architecture Michael Lester team up with Dragos CEO Robert M. Lee for a conversation on how to deal with these new challenges and implement a secure digital transformation.

Modern, Digital Technologies are Critical to Reliable, Clean Water

by Todd Walden, Peter Gabor, Dianne McMaster | Aug 26, 2020 | Capital Projects, Control & Safety Systems, Cybersecurity, Digital Transformation, Power Generation, Water & Wastewater

A key topic on the mind of attendees at Emerson’s 2020 Ovation™ Users’ Group Conference water/wastewater industry panel was how technology can help with the influx of new challenges facing water management plants. The COVID-19 pandemic has provided a glimpse of the...

Focus on Reliability and Performance to Drive Competitive Advantage

by Todd Walden, Jason King, James Nyenhuis | Aug 25, 2020 | Capital Projects, Control & Safety Systems, Cybersecurity, Digital Transformation, Power Generation, Water & Wastewater

A common power industry theme at the 2020 Ovation™ Users’ Group Conference has been the many challenges organizations experience in a shifting environment. The need for maintaining reliability and compliance and avoiding obsolescence remain, yet organizations also...

Ovation Users’ Group – Pandemic Challenges and Shift Toward Renewables Drives Digitalized Control and Centralization

by Todd Walden, Monil Malhotra, Jim Murray | Aug 24, 2020 | Capital Projects, Control & Safety Systems, Cybersecurity, Digital Transformation, Power Generation, Water & Wastewater

The challenges associated with a shift toward renewables and maintaining business continuity during a global pandemic have resulted in new opportunities that have been a constant topic among attendees at Emerson’s 2020 Ovation™ Users’ Group Conference. Customers are...

Ovation Users’ Group – Cybersecurity, Customer Service and Flexible Deployment Strategies Drive Improved Operations and Performance

by Todd Walden, Jaime Foose | Aug 19, 2020 | Control & Safety Systems, Cybersecurity, Digital Transformation, Power Generation, Water & Wastewater

Day two of the Ovation™ Users’ Group Conference saw speakers focusing on the importance of cybersecurity in driving better operations across the power and water industries. Hyperconnectivity challenges cybersecurity Many...

Better Understanding Cybersecurity Webinar Series

by Jim Cahill, Darren Greener, Robert Sharrock, Ben White | May 27, 2020 | Cybersecurity

Emerson’s Darren Greener hosts a series of seven webinars, Is now the right time to understand Cybersecurity? to help you better understand ways to design and apply robust defensive strategies for your Operational Technology environment involving people, processes and technologies.

Cybersecurity Considerations for Automation Architectures

by Jim Cahill, Sergio Diaz, Alexandre Peixoto | Apr 30, 2020 | Cybersecurity, Safety

In an Industrial Safety and Security Source article, Considerations in Choosing a Defendable Safety System Architecture, Emerson’s Sergio Diaz and Alexandre Peixoto focus on the basic process control system (BPCS) and safety instrumented system (SIS). They compare various architectures from a cybersecurity perspective.

Cybersecurity and Operational Technology at ConnectedPlant

by Jim Cahill | Feb 18, 2020 | Cybersecurity, Event

One of the conferences for the power and chemical processing industries is the ConnectedPlant conference. The focus is on the technologies and solutions focused on improving plant operations. Some of the technologies explored included artificial intelligence (AI),...

Hardening Supply Chain Cybersecurity

by Jim Cahill | Feb 17, 2020 | Cybersecurity

The SANS Institute provides information security training and security certification for security professionals. They hold an ICS (Industrial Control System) Security Summit each year. At the 2019 ICS Security Summit, Emerson's David Foose presented Practical...

ISASecure Family of Certifications Builds Foundation for Automation Cybersecurity

by Jim Cahill | Feb 11, 2020 | Control & Safety Systems, Cybersecurity

Authors: Emerson's Alexandre Peixoto, International Society of Automation (ISA)'s Andre Ristaino Selecting, engineering, implementing, and operating a control system is a significant, long-term investment. Applying a defense-in-depth strategy to protect the process...

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