Resources for Cybersecurity

Advancing Automation: Industrial Cybersecurity
- Ebook
In this Industrial Cybersecurity eBook from Automation.com, we focus on the latest insights and initiatives changing the landscape of cybersecurity.

Advancing Automation: Manufacturing Software
- Ebook
Automation.com has teamed with industrial innovators to showcase efficiency and productivity technologies within manufacturing operations. IoT gateways, cloudbased MES and more are covered in this Manufacturing Software ebook.

Advancing Automation: Cybersecurity
- Ebook
This ebook includes security roadmaps and resources in order to ensure an active and successful cyber defense strategy for any organization.

InTech Focus: Flow & Level 2019
- Ebook InTech Focus
This in-depth e-resource is designed to inform automation professionals of the innovations and strategies needed to thrive in tomorrow’s industry, and make the most out of their flow and level instrumentation.

Advancing Automation: Manufacturing Software
- Ebook
This Manufacturing Software ebook will have everything today’s plant operator needs to ensure the smooth integration of the old and the new, in the connected and secure environment which is increasingly vital for industrial success.

Ebook: OPC UA Users and Experts–Conveying Knowledge and Experience
- Ebook
The OPC Foundation and Automation.com come together to bring you this informative ebook series to highlight the benefits and the potential of the OPC UA technology for end users, system integrators, operators in the world of industrial IoT. This first volume covers a series of interviews with experts, market leaders and think tanks in communication, automation and industrial IT.

OT Cybersecurity: Leveraging ISA 62443-3-2 for IACS Risk Assessment
- White Paper
The ISA Global Cybersecurity Alliance explains Security Risk Assessment for Design in a new whitepaper.

Report: Cybersecurity Best Practices Helped OT Organizations Better Withstand Pandemic Vulnerabilities
- White Paper
A new report from Fortinet focused on operational technology found that insider breaches increased by over 100% in the past year and that industrial organizations continue to grapple with immense security challenges. The full 2021 State of Operational Technology and Cybersecurity report is available for download.

FDT Mobility Secures Open Automation in the Age of Industry 4.0
- White Paper
How FDT 3.0-based solutions help industrial personnel work smarter, faster, safer and more effectively.

Automation 2021: OT/ICS Cybersecurity
- Ebook
Operational technology (OT) systems are very different from the automation networks of 10 years ago, and while the many IT systems and IIoT devices bring huge benefits to critical infrastructure and industrial organizations, they also bring new cybersecurity challenges.

Webinar: Best Practices to Deploy Zero Trust With AI-driven Threat Detection for IT/OT Networks
- Webinar
In this webinar, we will explore current security and operational challenges faced by asset owners and operators as IT/OT networks converge.

Targeted ICS Ransomware in Manufacturing: Be Prepared
- Webinar
This webinar, by leaders in OT cybersecurity, provides an in-depth exploration of the threat landscape for industrial / OT automation in manufacturing. Join us to understand today's and tomorrow's threats and to explore robust, practical responses to this evolving threat environment.

2020 Industrial Automation Salary Survey
- White Paper
Conducted in Fall 2020, the Automation.com 2020 salary survey reflects the early effects of pandemic-related economic upheavals for engineering, business and technical professionals in manufacturing and industry.

Information Technology and Operations Technology: Beyond Convergence
- White Paper
The whitepaper outlines why organizations need to move beyond IT/OT convergence to ensure full integration—for enterprise security.

Webinar: From the Office to the Field--Cybersecurity Effectiveness for IT and OT
- Webinar
Industrial organizations manage expensive and sophisticated equipment at their plants–and the systems that run the machinery are increasingly being connected to the internet. The cybersecurity implications of this trend are substantial, including possible threats to physical safety, and in some cases, national security.

Real-Time Data: Unified Environment Enables Multi-purpose Digital Twins·
- Ebook
Whether you are in the process or discrete industry, a vendor or end-user, FDT empowers the business and operational workforce with a unified environment offering data-driven business models enabling IIoT and Industry 4.0 applications.

Automation Salary Survey 2020-21
- White Paper
This Automation.com 2020-2021 Automation Salary Survey report will explicate data collected in mid-2021 about the salaries and work lives of automation professionals across the globe in various industries and stages of their careers.

Ebook: OPC UA Users and Experts–Conveying Knowledge and Experience, 5th Edition
- Ebook
In this 5th edition, Groupe Renault, in partnership with Google Cloud, reaps the benefits of digitalization from factory floor to cloud

Automation 2021: Cybersecurity & ICS Modernization
- Ebook
This edition of AUTOMATION 2021 tackles the many places where cybersecurity planning and ICS modernization intersect. Here, you can learn how to prevent internal and external cybersecurity breaches with zero trust OT network segmentation, as well as how to simplify and secure connected automation using these embedded cybersecurity tools.

Ebook: OPC UA Users and Experts–Conveying Knowledge and Experience, 4th Edition
- Ebook
This edition provides an update on the current status of the OPC Foundation's activities in China, how one company implemented and scaled-up OPC UA, the future road map of the OPC UA Field Exchange (FX), how OPC UA deals with safety, and more.

Webinar: Industrial Cybersecurity – Separating Fact From Fiction
- Webinar
In this webinar, we will highlight some of the greatest arenas of discussion that have emerged in the field of Industrial Cybersecurity over the past two plus decades.

Webinar: How to Accelerate OT Cyber Security With a Technology-Enabled Vulnerability Assessment
- Webinar
In this webinar, Verve Industrial will share an approach to vulnerability assessments that provide deep, accurate risk perspectives and the ability to immediately move from assessment to remediation, accelerating the time to security.

Ebook: OPC UA Users and Experts–Conveying Knowledge and Experience, 3rd Edition
- Ebook
Download this latest eBook edition to learn more about information interoperability with OPC UA and MQTT, the history of OPC UA and future adoption, OPC UA Security, and more.

Automation 2021: Control Systems
- Ebook
In this Ebook, you'll learn about the roles of DCS and SCADA in digital transformation or dig into a case study about retrofitting a distributed control system. Also discover how technology makes it possible to operate multiple virtual machines on a single hardware platform, essentially turning a motion control system into an edge server. Automation and control technology changes fast. The subject matter experts we’ve gathered here are key resources for the challenging puzzles you need to solve today, and in the future.

Ebook: OPC UA Users and Experts–Conveying Knowledge and Experience, 2nd Edition
- Ebook
Download this ebook to learn more about Companion Specifications, the importance of OPC UA for business software, protection against hacker/malware attacks, how to get started with OPC UA, and more.