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If you’re a critical infrastructure or industrial organization, or a government agency, you should certainly review CISA’s advice and use it as a guide to improve your defenses. It covers many of the basic tenets of securing your infrastructure. That said, advice is great and useful, but action is better and more impactful.

A look at what we know so far about the Colonial Pipeline cyberattack, with comments from some of ISAGCA's member companies.

As global economies transform, new market and employment opportunities emerge, bringing with them the need to develop new skills.

Colonial Pipeline experienced a ransomware attack that forced the operator to shut down operations. This cybersecurity incident shows how hackers target industrial operations and critical infrastructure. This story was published with permission from ISSSource.com.

Forward-looking organizations are thinking about energy as a key factor in their market competitiveness and seeking solutions to overcome the capital and risk barriers that come with energy infrastructure upgrades.

In any industry that uses industrial automated control systems (IACS), the potential consequences due to cyber-attacks range widely.

In this insight, we look at the current state of play for the industrial robotics industry in a range of key sectors and make some predictions for the industry in the short and longer term.

Both industrial water and energy must be properly and carefully managed to ensure asset reliability, adherence to energy and environmental regulations, and efficient and economic production processes. A solution for these challenges is to use advanced analytics.

As the hybrid workforce gains traction across OT sectors, IT leaders must be prepared to secure this digitally transformed landscape.

Cybersecurity tips for manufacturers employing robotics.

Our list of the 10 integrations every manufacturer needs with their ERP includes some that are new and some that have been around awhile. If you don’t acquire them soon, expect to be left behind–by your customers and your industry.

Securing valuable IIoT data is a business imperative, demanding reevaluation of traditional architectures and adoption of new best practices.

Five proactive steps help secure your systems against malware and malicious use.

Predictive maintenance is fast becoming recognized as one of the more easily exploited applications of that popular but not always easily defined concept in industry–digitalization. One aspect of digitalization, however, stands out as worthy of swift and serious consideration: predictive maintenance.

Azure IoT leverages OPC UA so industrial operations personnel get support for open systems and “don’t forget what [they] already know” when connecting OT systems to the cloud.

Jason Spera, CEO and co-founder, Aegis Software, recently shared his vantage of the changes for factory floor automation in 2021.

Chris interviews Brian Kime, senior analyst with Forrester, about how critical infrastructure and industrial operators are embracing digital transformation, securing their OT and IT networks, and mitigating the risks and vulnerabilities associated with them.

In order to mitigate risk, producers needs to be proactive about knowing what risks threaten their industrial automation systems.

To choose the right UPS, small and medium-sized data centers must consider cooling, redundancy, efficiency, architectures, and more.

While shipping and data today are an important part of building successful logistics operations, these areas alone cannot solve real-time supply chain issues. The lack of complete end-to-end visibility was also a reason so many manufacturers and suppliers suffered during the pandemic. Unfortunately for many organizations, this real-time visibility gap starts in the warehouse.