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ICS Cybersecurity Risk Assessment
ICS are connected to computer networks, which in turn are connected to the internet and are employed to control equipment and safeguard people, plant and environment. -
Using Risk Analysis to Optimize OT SOC Operations
Risk analysis and management as a method of optimizing security has increased in popularity over the past few years. -
Survey Highlights Shift in Attitudes Toward Robots in the UK Caused by COVID-19
UK manufacturers express growing interest in the potential of robotic automation to help address impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and protect against future workforce shortages. -
Automated Manufacturing Cybersecurity Risks
How to mitigate and assess your cyber risks in an automated manufacturing environment. -
White Paper Excerpt: Leveraging ISA 62443-3-2 For IACS Risk Assessment and Risk Related Strategies
Read an excerpt from the Hal Thomas white paper, Leveraging ISA 62443-3-2 For IACS Risk Assessment and Risk Related Strategies. -
Essential Start to Securing OT Systems: Risk Assessment
Here’s how to understand the current situation and develop a cybersecurity strategy. This article comes from the Ebook Automation 2021: OT/ICS Cybersecurity. -
Getting Started With Cybersecurity Risk Assessment: When It’s Not About Information Technology
In any industry that uses industrial automated control systems (IACS), the potential consequences due to cyber-attacks range widely. -
Risk Assessment: First Step to Securing an OT Environment
Developing a cybersecurity strategy begins with understanding the current situation, including existing risks. -
Impact of COVID 19 on Manufacturing
ARC Advisory Group and Automation.com recently conducted a web survey to gain insights into the impact of the current COVID-19 pandemic on industrial manufacturers and what they are doing in response. Here, we provide a summary of the results of that original survey supplemented with some additional insights. -
Shedding Light: A Modeling Agenda to Better Price Cyber Risk
Tom Finan shares his experience with the Dept. of Homeland Security to improve cyber risk modeling and controls. -
AutoQuiz: What Are the Cybersecurity Risks to a Geothermal Plant?
Automation systems are vulnerable to many cybersecurity risks, but email viruses pose the least risk to disrupt operations and create an emergency situation. -
Yokogawa Electric announces acquisition of RAP International
RAP specializes in providing digitized solutions that support risk assessment, management of the permit to work (PtW) process, and governance of control of work (CoW) for all plant maintenance activities. -
Book Excerpt + Q&A: Situation Management for Process Control
Situation management is the competency, ability, and willingness of the human operator to properly and successfully manage the enterprise or activity under his or her charge. -
Key to Achieving Positive Business Results: Manage Risk Throughout Industrial Automation Infrastructure
By modernizing production systems, industrial companies can maximize their efforts throughout the enterprise and be proactive about all facets of risk management that affect people, brand, and busines -
Graphic Produces introduces Best Practice Guide for Chemical Risk Assessment
Professionals in any industry that work with or produce chemicals will learn how to identify, evaluate, and control chemical hazards to improve safety. -
Can Risk Analysis Really Be Reduced to a Simple Procedure?
Geographically diverse systems using integrated technology are inherently complex. A structured way of analyzing them can be very helpful. -
Top 5 Upfront Project Considerations for Effective Risk Management
Done properly, risk management allows project goals to be met and supports success. Consideration for project risk means that both parties, dthe client and the integrator, will look back on the projec -
How Much Risk Can Safety Alarms Reduce?
When implementing ANSI/ISA-18.2, Management of Alarm Systems for the Process Industries, engineers should consider all alarms, including basic process control, safety instrumented systems, fire and ga -
Industrial Risk Avoidance: Proactive Instead of Reactive Maintenance
Transforming an industrial plant’s calibration system to a fully automated system. -
AVENTICS releases Machine Safety for Pneumatics manual
The forty-eight page guide covers topics such as: international directives and standards, hazards vs. risks, risk assessment, estimating performance level, implementing safety functions, diagnostic coverage & common causes of failure (CCF)















