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Project Engineering Strengths Gained with the Integrated SIS Approach
Editor’s Note: Faced with designing and implementing both a safety instrumented system (SIS) and a basic process control system (BPCS), project team leaders must assess their goals and choose how the two systems will form...
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Keeping Video Conferencing Secure
Video conferencing apps provide multiple benefits, but they also present organizations with the...
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Failed Y-Strainer Led to Deadly Chem Plant Blast
On Tuesday, April 2, at 10:46 a.m., a vapor cloud of isobutylene formed at the KMCO, LLC (“KMCO”)...
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Digital, Physical Security Converge at Bucks Arena
By Gregory Hale Life in the National Basketball Association (NBA) is a very competitive...
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Safeguarding OT from Cyber Threats
Manufacturing is a very competitive market to be in. It has undergone several evolutions in recent years, each with the aim of optimizing production processes and increasing agility to meet customer demands, while also reducing production costs.
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IL Nuke Sees Double with Transformer Woes
At the Clinton Power Station, the Old Adage Lives On: Fool Me Once, Shame on You, Fool Me Twice …...
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NE Nuke: Safety Valves Remained Closed
Nebraska Nuclear Power Plant Operated 89 Days with Key Safety System Impaired EDITOR’S NOTE: This...
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Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick; there is no way to stop a second hand, which shifts to minutes and then hours and then days. Like waves crashing on the shore, time keeps moving no matter what.
Safety technology and the professionals behind it provide a solid assurance the process and facility remain safe and sound on a daily basis, there is no doubt. While that is a vital element of process automation, there can be so much more.
Not too long ago, a young Polish boy found a hole in the network of a European tram system. He was able to get into the system, navigate his way around and then, using a television remote, he was able to switch tracks using the infrared device on the remote.
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VIEWS
Forget Hyperbole: Stay True to Security Message
By Gregory Hale One of the good things that occurred after last week’s news from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) involving Russian attackers being able to penetrate the networks of hundreds of U.S. utilities is the...
FOCAL POINTS
INCIDENTS
Google Patches Critical Chrome Hole
Google released Chrome version 81.0.4044.113 for Windows, Mac, and Linux that addresses a vulnerability where an attacker could exploit to take control of an affected system. The update will roll out over the coming days. As...
PRODUCTS AND SERVICES
AI-Based Safety Platform Releases
Everguard.ai, a developer of Artificial Intelligence-based (AI) worker safety solutions, released Sentri360, an end-to-end safety solution that alerts management and workers in real time to potential safety hazards. Worker...
GOVERNMENT
NY Nuke Safe Despite Nearby Gas Pipeline
Indian Point Energy Center nuclear power plant would remain safe should there be a potential accident on a 42-inch natural gas pipeline located near the plant, said an expert team of Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff and...
TECHNOLOGY UPDATE
Parsing Out Stronger Security
A parser, the element in a computer system that converts data inputs into an understandable format, is the first line of defense for cybersecurity and it may soon become even more vital. The role of a parser in a computer system...
TRAINING & CERTIFICATION
Education Program on Key Locking System
A 1.0 Health, Safety and Welfare (HSW) continuing education program is ready to go for architect, engineering, government, and consulting firms focused on critical infrastructure products. The American Institute of Architects...
CAREERS
OH University Gains Cyber Op Major
Cedarville University got the thumbs up from the Ohio Department of Higher Education and the Higher Learning Commission to offer a cyber operations major, effective in the fall 2020 semester. The cyber operations major will...
STANDARDS
NERC Wants to Defer 7 Reliability Standards
North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) filed a motion last Monday with Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to defer the implementation of several reliability standards that have effective dates or...
RESEARCH
Trust Key to Security, Tech Infrastructure Future
By viewing incident response in a different light, it is possible to show how experts, and nations, can more effectively combat cyberwarfare when they foster a level of trust that transcends politics. “People often think of...
Industry Voices
By Gary DiFazio Industrial cybersecurity is a unique animal. It brings together safety principles from the OT environment and security principles from the IT environment to protect your plant’s assets, as well as processes, networks and data. Without c …
By Alessandro Di Pinto While the world is grappling with the COVID-19 pandemic, nation-state and other threat actors are capitalizing on the climate of fear, uncertainty and doubt to find OT and IoT security gaps and orchestrate new cyberattacks. Phish …
By Dave Weinstein Oftentimes, when we think about mitigating cyber threats to industrial networks, we focus on preventing attackers from exploiting industrial control systems to achieve a certain desired effect, such as a plant shutdown, power outage, …
By Larry Dorie There is no denying that life has changed dramatically for most Americans over the past week or so, and for many of us, the next few weeks will be filled with uncertainty. With the number of cases of coronavirus increasing across the nat …
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A Year in Vulnerabilities
In 2017, Dragos tracked 163 vulnerability advisories with an industrial control system (ICS) impact. Of these, the majority were vulnerabilities in insecure- by-design products which are typically deep within an ICS network....