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NERC CIP Compliance for OT Cybersecurity – What Energy Sector Operators Need to Know
A substation control network does not get a maintenance window because an auditor is coming. That tension sits underneath every conversation about NERC CIP compliance in the energy sector. The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) Critical…
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NSA & CISA Continues to Expand ICS Cybersecurity Efforts
In a recent announcement, the Ukrainian government revealed that it is once again preparing for “massive cyberattacks” that it fears Russian hackers will carry out on critical infrastructure facilities. They also shared their concern for institutions located in…
The Need to Protect Insecure Industrial Control Systems
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) recently put out an industrial control systems (ICS) advisory alerting operators of seven security flaws in Dataprobe’s iBoot-PDU power distribution unit product. As described at the Hacker…
The Rise of Digital Twins
In their ‘IoT Signals: Manufacturing Spotlight‘ report, Microsoft and Intel summarize that maintenance monitoring and automation are the biggest overarching areas that companies are banking on when it comes to industrial IoT technologies. They are also the…
Collaboration for a More Secure Future
Cyberattacks on the manufacturing sector can have severe impacts.
The Vision is Secure: Data Visualization on the Plant Floor
A new age for plant floors is unfolding with the rising popularity of smart factories. The dawn of this Industry 4.0 staple comes as the adoption of 5G networks increases and connectivity becomes the norm. While regions of the world, including Europe and the United…
Smart Factories Are Under Attack: Are You Prepared?
Last week, we were given yet another reminder about the importance of critical infrastructure security when an outage of Rogers telecommunications services impacted Canadians across the country. While the company stated that the issue stemmed from a…
Industry Spotlight: Safeguarding the Food and Beverage Plant Floors
When Abbott Nutrition voluntarily shut down a facility on February 17th due to contaminated products, it ignited a frenzy. Parents and caregivers were left scrambling to get their hands on baby formula as a shortage ensued. Not only did this crisis expose the fact…
Industry 4.0 and Next-Gen Manufacturing
The next generation of manufacturing is upon us. Whether it is being referred to as the fourth industrial revolution, Industry 4.0 or 4IR, its impact is undeniable.
It Takes a Village to Protect the Nation’s Plant Floors
Last year, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) made a strange request. It put a call out to be hacked. As explained in Forbes, hackers were essentially asked to discover the vulnerabilities existing within the DHS systems for a possible reward of up to…
A Long-Term Relationship: The Marriage of the System Integrator and Industrial Software
A recent Power Engineering article opened by bringing us back to 2015. Even before there was the ongoing turmoil that we face today with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, that year marked a significant event unto itself. A series of outages impacted nearly a quarter of…
Ringing the Alarm for OT Security
Although cybersecurity has been important for quite some time, it seems as though last year was the real wakeup call that we needed to remind us just how important it is. Between the rise in the number of attacks to the scale of some of them, we have seen the…
Securing the Plant Floor and the Future of ICS Cybersecurity
In early March, it was reported by Reuters that Toyota Motor Corp had experienced a cyberattack impacting its supply chain. The issue was discovered when Kojima Industries Corp, the plastic parts and electronic components provider to the automaker, realized that it…
