Regulatory Compliance
How to Comply with the Cyber Resilience Act Before December 2027
Reporting obligations under the EU Cyber Resilience Act went live on 11 September 2026. The rest of the regulation applies from 11...
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Regulatory Compliance
NIS2 Supplier Questionnaires: Building an Evidence Pack as a North American OT Vendor
NIS2 does not regulate you if you are a control system vendor in Houston or a systems integrator in Calgary. It regulates your Eur...
Regulatory Compliance
CRA Reporting Requirements: What Article 14 Means for US and Canadian OT Manufacturers
Since 11 September 2026, any manufacturer placing a product with digital elements on the European market has had a legal duty to r...
OT Cybersecurity
What If the Firewall Fails? Cyber-Informed Engineering and the Return to Engineering Judgment
Almost every OT security control assumes it will work. Segmentation assumes the firewall rules hold. Access control assumes creden...
Functional Safety
SIF, SIS and BPCS: What Each One Is and Why Confusing Them Costs You at Assessment
Three acronyms that appear constantly in functional safety documentation and get used loosely in conversation. The distinction is...
OT Cybersecurity
96% of OT Incidents Start in IT: Secure the Boundary That Actually Gets Crossed
A 2026 Frost and Sullivan survey of OT security decision-makers found that 60 percent of industrial organizations experienced an O...
Functional Safety
What SIL Level Do You Need? How Safety Integrity Level Targets Are Actually Set
A Safety Integrity Level describes how reliably a safety function has to work. SIL 1 is the lowest and SIL 4 the highest, and each...
Functional Safety
LOPA Explained: How Layer of Protection Analysis Bridges HAZOP and SIL
A HAZOP tells you what can go wrong. A SIL target tells you how reliable your protection has to be. Layer of Protection Analysis i...
Functional Safety
SIL Verification: How to Prove Your Safety Function Actually Achieves Its Target
SIL determination tells you what integrity a safety function needs. SIL verification proves the system you actually built delivers...
Functional Safety
Functional Safety for Battery Storage and Hydrogen: New Hazards, Same Lifecycle
Grid-scale battery energy storage and hydrogen production are being built by organizations with deep functional safety capability...