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...
Author: Dennis Tkacs Not a day goes by without mention of a new cybersecurity incident, the hack of a prominent organization's website, a new security threat, or an attack that compromises consumer financial information. US based retailers Target and Home Depot are...
Author: Douglas Morris A while back, I wrote about using advanced control techniques to reduce steam temperature swings which can lead to boiler unavailability. Control improvements are one method to address this problem, but so is evaluating the mechanicals in the...
Cyber security remains in the forefront of worries for most process manufacturers and electrical power producers. When I saw this news, NitroSecurity and Emerson Deliver Advanced Control System Security and Compliance Automation in my Twitter stream, I checked in with...
A recent Automation World article, Cyber Security--A Must For the Grid, describes how cyber security has become a big issue for electric plants. This is because of the requirements to be in: ...compliance with standards developed by the North American Electric...
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