As analytics continues to turn the vast and growing sea of digital data into useful information, the need for strong cybersecurity also grows. In a CIO Applications article, Addressing the Complex Cyber Security Needs of Digital Manufacturing, Emerson's Bob Karschnia...
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Energy Infrastructure and Cybersecurity
It's hard to talk about digital transformation without talking about cybersecurity. At CERAWeek 2019, Emerson's Michael Lester joined a panel, Energy Infrastructure: How vulnerable to cyber attack? The panel opened with each panelist describing what got them into...
Collaboration for Cybersecurity Resiliency and Robustness
Maintaining robust defenses from cyber-attacks is a priority for manufacturers. They rely on their automation suppliers to provide security-hardened technologies and cybersecurity services to help defend against new attacks and maintain resiliency and robustness over...
Practical Tips for System Security
Emerson's Nick Janouskovec shared his practical tips for attaining and managing Ovation system security at the 2018 Ovation Users' Group Conference. With so many different standards, regulations, technologies and approaches to cybersecurity, it can be challenging to...
Cybersecurity Worst Practices: The Good-the Bad-the Ugly
At the 2018 Ovation Users' Group Conference, Emerson's David Foose shared examples of bad practices in securing control systems. Dave opened describing how the focus on control system security over the past decade has changed from bothersome to imperative. The five...
Power and Water Cybersecurity Suite Modules
At the 2018 Ovation Users' Group Conference, Emerson's Jose Pablo Bonilla and Levi Crosier described the different components of the Power and Water Cybersecurity Suite (PWCS). This presentation included providing users with guidance for configuring their systems,...
Applying Center for Internet Security ICS Cybersecurity Controls
Power, water and wastewater utilities are critical infrastructure, and require ongoing industrial control system (ICS) cybersecurity risk reduction efforts. Taking a systematic and integrated approach to ICS cybersecurity can help with safe, reliable and efficient...
Cybersecurity Guidance at ConnectedPlant Conference
This week, the ConnectedPlant conference is being held in Charlotte, North Carolina. The conference is focused for professionals in the chemicals and power industries who are leading digital transformations in their organizations. The focus includes: …actionable...
IIoT Cybersecurity Frameworks and Standards
At the 2018 ARC Industry Forum, cybersecurity was the focus of the Monday sessions. In a session, IIoT Cybersecurity Frameworks & Standards, Emerson's Eric Braun joined a panel with other industry participants. Here was the session description: The Industrial...
Cybersecurity Planning and Preparation
A digital transformation is well underway with many manufacturers striving to improve safety, reliability, efficiency, emissions and/or throughput. The Industrial Internet of Things is making it possible to monitor more areas of the production operations than was...
Successfully Addressing NERC CIP Cybersecurity Standards
The power industry is perhaps the furthest along in hardening their cybersecurity defenses due to the work of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) on the critical infrastructure protection (CIP) cybersecurity standards—now at version 6. In a...
Driving Sustainable Cybersecurity Programs
EnergySec is a consortium with the mission, "…to support energy sector organizations with the security of their critical technology infrastructures." Their EnergySec Summit 2017 is happening this week. The focus of this conference is: Defining and developing...
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