Author: Jocelyn Sexton At this year's Offshore Technology Conference, Asset Strategy & Management Program Manager Rick Gorskie talked to oil and gas customers about their concerns regarding cybersecurity. As you can imagine, it's a hot topic. Many of our customers...
Author: Juan Carlos Bravo In the past, we discussed how the metals and mining industry was increasingly becoming a target for cyber-attacks. An Ernst and Young report, Business risks facing mining and metals 2015–2016 recently upgraded cybersecurity into its top 10...
Author: Dennis Tkacs Why do computer driven systems fail? It's a subject I want to develop over the next few blog posts. And by fail I don't mean technically, but rather why do they fail to meet the business cases under which their procurement was initially justified?...
Cybersecurity remains a top concern among process manufacturers around the globe. In a recent Process Engineering article, Weak spot, the article opens: Last month marked the end of technical support for Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. Robert Smith...
Author: Juan Carlos Bravo This week, we heard in the news how the "Heart bleed" virus exposed sensitive information from millions of users and multinational companies across many industries. So this poses the question—how many miners are exposed to cyber-attacks. Very...
Cybersecurity remains a key concern for process manufacturers. Emerson's Bob Huba presented, Implementing a DeltaV Security Program Using a Familiar Plant Model, to kick off the Tuesday workshops here at the Emerson Exchange Americas conference. His abstract:Figuring...
Cybersecurity remains a top concern for process manufacturers around the globe. This is due to the fact that threats are increasing, automation and IT staffs are demanding comprehensive security, regulations and standards are emerging, and proactive measures are being...
Over at the Tofino blog is a post, SCADA Security: A Call-out to Control Engineers about Air Gaps, which every process automation professional should read. Eric Byres opens the post: Last week I discussed how security experts and ICS / SCADA vendors are giving up on...
In the Emerson Exchange 365 community, I saw a post announcing a February 16-17, 2012 Regional Technical Forum for Ovation system users. I got my hands on a few of the presentations, which I hope to share with you over the next few weeks. Emerson's Mike DeKlavon, a...
Savannah River's Greg Stephens and Emerson's Randy Pratt present, DeltaV Security - Don't Let Your Business Be Caught Without It at the recent Emerson Exchange conference in Nashville. [slideshare...
At the Water Environment Federation's upcoming Technical Exhibition and Conference (WEFTEC 2011), October 15-19 in Los Angeles, Emerson's Doug Johnson will share his thoughts on water and wastewater infrastructure funding, master automation planning, energy...
Security has always been a vexing problem for us. Back in earlier times, great castles and walls were built to keep out unfriendly types. Technologies and tactics such as catapults came along to reduce the effectiveness of these defenses. What prompted this thought...
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