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 and Cybersecurity: Why IEC 61511 and IEC 62443 Must Be Designed Together
For most of their history, functional safety and cybersecurity have been treated as separate engineering disciplines with separate...
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...
Industrial Cybersecurity
How to Choose a Data Diode Vendor: A Buyer's Guide for OT and ICS
Selecting a data diode vendor looks straightforward until the evaluation begins. Every supplier claims hardware enforced one way t...
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 Training
What Is an OT Incident Response Tabletop Exercise? Why Every Industrial Operator Needs One
An incident response plan sitting in a shared drive is not the same as an incident response capability. The difference between the...
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...
Industrial Cybersecurity
OT Backup and Recovery: Why Your IT Backup Solution Will Fail in an Industrial Environment
When a manufacturing plant ran a ransomware tabletop exercise, its IT team pointed to the cloud backup system with confidence. The...
Mining
Building a Cyber Resilience Framework forUnderground and Open-Pit Mining Operations
Cyber resilience in mining operations means something more specific than it does in most industries. The operational and safety co...
Manufacturing
ICS Security for Discrete vs. Process Manufacturing: Key Differences Explained
Manufacturing covers a wider range of operational environments than any other industrial sector. An automotive assembly plant and...