Is Your House in Order?
By David Zahn, CMO, GM of Cyber Security Business Unit

A few weeks ago, an inspector visited my home as part of a refinance process. My family is good about home maintenance activities, but he did remind us to caulk and patch the exterior of our house each year. This preventative maintenance best practice protects our most valuable asset from the elements. This visit reminds me of another visit – one I recently made to a large power company. We talked at length about... Read more

By David Zahn Cybersecurity, Maintenance, Management, OT, Patch 0 Comments

Fair Warning
By Brian Nixon, Senior Consultant

Headlines in the news media claim that ISIS is attempting to gain access to cyber assets that comprise the nation’s energy infrastructure. The article points out that, for now at least, there is desire, but little capability. The disparate, proprietary systems that run our nation’s power plants, refineries, and petrochemical industries take a high degree of sophistication to manipulate successfully. This... Read more

By Brian Nixon Cybersecurity, ICS 0 Comments

The Risk of Not Knowing
By David Zahn, CMO, GM of Cyber Security Business Unit

“The big problems are where people don’t realize they have one in the first place.”  – Edward Deming Deming’s observation seems obvious enough. When you apply this to ICS cybersecurity, what are the “big problems” that companies don’t realize? In the power, petrochemical, and oil & gas industries, the stakes are high. These big problems – especially ... Read more

By David Zahn Cybersecurity, Inventory, Compliance, Configuration, ICS 0 Comments

Don’t Lose Sight of the Forest for the Trees
By Mark Carrigan, Senior Vice President of Global Operations

In a recent interview with Chemical Processing magazine, I was asked about complying with alarm management standards such as ISA 18.2 and IEC 62682. I emphasized the obvious importance of complying with these standards. With compliance a given, we must guard against missing the forest for the trees. Striving for improved Operator Effectiveness (the forest) is the greater goal and focusing strictly on... Read more

By Mark Carrigan Safety, Management, Alarm, Operator 0 Comments

A Tale of Two Lines
By David Zahn, CMO, GM of Cyber Security Business Unit

Change is part of daily industrial operations. Detecting a change and assessing the validity of that change are critical to effective ICS cybersecurity. Let’s say, for instance, that two lines have been removed from an SIS configuration file. Now let’s say this change blinds the operator to the availability of the SIS.How will you know this configuration change occurred? This particular change happens deep... Read more

By David Zahn Cybersecurity, Security, Inventory, Management, Discovery 0 Comments
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