Functional Safety
Software Safety Training: Why Functional Safety Now Extends to Code
Functional safety used to be a hardware discipline. The safety function lived in a relay, a valve, a physical interlock, and safet...
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Functional Safety
Functional Safety Certification Cost in Canada and the US: A Complete Breakdown
Search for functional safety certification cost and you will find surprisingly little straight talk. Providers tend to hide pricin...
Functional Safety
SIL Assessment and Determination: A Practical Guide for North American Operators
SIL assessment is one of those functional safety activities that sounds more settled than it is. Ask three engineers how a given s...
Functional Safety
Functional Safety Services in Canada and the US: What They Cover and When You Need Them
If you operate a plant, a production line, or any process where a failure could injure someone or take a facility offline, you hav...
Industrial Cybersecurity
Definition of Cyber-Physical Systems: What They Are and Why Securing Them Is Different
Every industrial facility running today is a collection of cyber-physical systems, whether or not the people operating it use that...
Functional Safety
How to Choose a Functional Safety Consultant: A Buyer's Guide for Industrial Operators
Choosing a functional safety partner is one of the higher-consequence procurement decisions an industrial operator makes. The prov...
OT Cybersecurity
OT Cybersecurity for Chemical Plants: Protecting High-Consequence Process Environments
Chemical manufacturing sits at the top of the OT security consequence hierarchy. The industrial control systems managing continuou...
OT Cybersecurity
Control System Integrity in OT Environments: What It Means and How to Maintain It
Industrial facilities run on a fundamental assumption: the control logic executing in their PLCs and distributed control systems i...
Industrial Cybersecurity
NIST CSF vs IEC 62443: Which Framework Should OT Security Teams Follow?
Every OT security team eventually hits the same question: NIST CSF or IEC 62443? Experienced OT security practitioners almost alwa...
OT Cybersecurity
Can You Still Run the Plant by Hand? Manual Fallback as an OT Security Control
During the 2026 campaign against US water systems, the advice from federal agencies was unusually direct. Take the affected system...