Resources for ISA Global Cybersecurity Alliance
The Trillion-Dollar Question for Advanced Industries: How to extract full value from technology?
- White Paper
As data, connectivity, and processing power expand, so do opportunities for industrial companies to extract value through innovative products, services, and business models. This McKinsey study delves further into how technology delivers value to today's industry.
What's the Use of the IIoT?
- White Paper
The IIoT connects devices with the digital world to provide data visibility. But the real value of the IIoT lies in how that data will be used by industry to realize the potential benefi ts of this connectivity.
A Case for an Internet Code of Conduct
- White Paper
Self-regulation or legislation does not stifle innovation at all. It steers the internet in the right direction. It is just an example, albeit a very important example, of market feedback for engineers and innovators to develop the right products.
Extending Connectivity to the Bottom of the Ocean
- White Paper
If you have a ControlLogix PLC being used as the MCS, how can you make use of the OPC UA MDIS spec and bypass the old Modbus integration to the DCS? Softing has developed an OPC UA MDIS compliant server module that inserts into the ControlLogix chassis and creates the OPC UA provides a framework that can be used to represent field devices, for example.
Bridging the IT/OT Divide
- White Paper
Today’s smarter edge devices can streamline integration efforts while providing secure remote access for end users and machine builders, too
A Guide to Customized PROFINET Validation
- White Paper
While serial bus systems will continue to play an important role in the future, solutions based on Industrial Ethernet are becoming increasingly common with Industry 4.0 applications. The focus is less on cable measurements, signal levels or signal shapes, but in the case of standards such as PROFINET, utilization and the greatest possible availability of the networks are the focus of interest.
Industrial IoT Trends: WSN, LPWAN & Cloud Platforms
- White Paper
Wireless sensor networks (WSN), low power wide area networks (LPWAN) and cloud-based platforms are driving growth for the industrial Internet of Things (IoT)
Data Protection Best Practices
- White Paper
Protecting sensitive data created, stored and consumed by sensor-driven Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) technology and applications is one of the foundations of trustworthy IIoT systems.
Webinar: Start Your Own ICS/OT Cybersecurity Roadmap
- Webinar
Most asset owners are hunting for the next rogue device, reacting to the last cyber audit, and continually surprised how another brand-new device was deployed insecurely. In this webinar, we will be sharing lessons learned on how to get out of the ICS/OT cybersecurity rat race and get ahead of the problem!
Automation 2020: Control Systems
- Ebook
In this edition of AUTOMATION 2020, you’ll learn about the promise and reality of control systems that combine such new technologies with the robustness, security, and sophistication needed for industrial applications.
Bill Lydon's Automation & Control Trends Report 2020-2021
- Ebook
Bill Lydon's Automation & Control Trends Report 2020-2021 reports on ten trends shaping the automation, control and instrumentation, and provides lists of related articles for each trend. This annual report is from Automation.com, a subsidiary of ISA--The International Society of Automation.
InTech Focus: Pressure & Temperature 2020
- Ebook InTech Focus
InTech Focus ebooks from ISA focus on the fundamentals of essential automation components. This May 2020 edition covers pressure and temperature instrumentation.
Automation 2020: Industrial Cybersecurity
- Ebook
In this edition of AUTOMATION 2020 from Automation.com, find out how to bolster business resiliency in the face of cyberthreats, how to protect against threats to industrial control systems, the latest on USB port intrusion threats, the next big step in EtherNet/ IP security, and more.
Webinar: Empowering Power for the Digital Age
- Webinar
This webinar explores the need to distribute power to the edge, the rewards of doing so, and how power supply digital architectures are evolving to reduce costs and to empower the Industrial Internet of Things.
Webinar: Securing Industrial Environments With OT Endpoint Management
- Webinar
Join us on May 28th to learn a practical approach to applying many of the same best practice IT principles into the OT environment and hear a real-world example of an operator bringing the appropriate skills, technology and processes to enable similar endpoint risk management to OT as to IT.
IIoT At Work – Planning For The Next Installation
- Webinar
The audience will receive a comprehensive review of the challenges and solutions for the next IIoT deployment.
Automation 2020: IIoT and Smart Manufacturing
- Ebook
Formerly called Advancing Automation, this ebook series includes sponsored and curated articles from a variety of experts on the latest in smart manufacturing, Industry 4.0 topics, and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).
Open Industry 4.0 Alliance Technical Solution Design Principles
- White Paper
This white paper is focused on helping readers understand in detail the Open Industry 4.0 solution reference architecture framework for interoperability. It provides a dive deep into key design principles of its members defined and supported end to end solutions