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Webinar Recording: Road to Digitalization Leads Through Cybersecurity
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The promise is real. The age of digitalization, Industrie 4.0, and Industrial IoT-enabled smart factory will usher greater operational intelligence, more efficient production, and safer work environments. Realizing that promise means coming to terms with OT cybersecurity because the enablers of digitalization – smart sensors, ubiquitous connectivity, and remote access – are also enablers for cyberattacks.
A recent Ponemon Institute study revealed that only a third of oil and gas organizations surveyed rated their OT cyber readiness as high. With aging assets, poor security practices, and nearly a decade of bad guys learning how industrial control systems work, industry leaders are concerned about OT security challenges ahead. Now is that time for our operations and security leadership to plan and act more strategically so we can secure our digitalization future.
This ISA co-hosted webinar focuses on how industry must meet the challenge of securing operational environments. Cybersecurity veterans Leo Simonovich, Siemens’ vice president and global head of industrial cyber and digital security; Eddie Habibi, PAS founder and CEO; and Steve Mustard, chair of ISA’s Automation Federation Cybersecurity Committee offer insights on what holds industry back from a secure, digital future and what strategies leading edge companies are employing to mitigate enterprise risk.
Steve Mustard is an independent automation consultant and the Automation Federation’s Cybersecurity Committee chair. Originally from the UK and now based in Houston, Tex., Steve is a recognized authority on industrial cybersecurity, having developed and delivered cybersecurity management systems, procedures, training and guidance to multiple critical infrastructure organizations.
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Leo Simonovich is vice president and global head, Industrial Cyber and Digital Security of Siemens Energy Inc. He is responsible for setting the company’s strategic direction worldwide in helping Siemens’ energy customers protect their infrastructure from cyber attacks. Leo identifies emerging market trends, works with customers and Siemens businesses to provide best-in-class cyber offers, and contributes to the company’s thought leadership on this topic. Previously, Leo led the cyber risk analytics practice area at the management consulting firm, Booz Allen Hamilton. Leo holds both a master’s degree in global finance and an MBA from the University of Denver.
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Eddie Habibi is founder and CEO of PAS. Eddie is a pioneer and a thought leader in the fields of industrial control systems (ICS) cybersecurity, Industrial IoT, data analytics, and operations management. In 2017, PAS was recognized in CRN’s 15 coolest industrial IoT companies, and Eddie was listed by CRN as one of the 30 Internet Of Things Executives Whose Names You Should Know. He is the co-author of two popular best practices books on operational risk and safety management: Alarm Management: A Comprehensive Guide and The High Performance HMI Handbook. Eddie holds an engineering degree from the University of Houston and an MBA from the University of St. Thomas.
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Webinar Recording: How to Document Safety Instrumented Systems Inspections and Tests
Calibration professionals are very often asked to perform inspections on instrumentation. This ISA webinar recording focuses on best practices of inspecting, testing and documenting a safety instrumented system as well as how to apply these practices in the field to not only SIS, but also to simpler instruments, such as valves.
Paul Gruhn is a global functional safety consultant at AE Solutions and a highly acclaimed and awarded safety expert in the automation and control field. Paul is an ISA Fellow, a member of the ISA 84 standards committee (on safety instrumented systems), a developer and instructor of ISA courses on safety systems, and the primary author of the ISA textbook Safety Instrumented Systems: Design, Analysis, and Justification. He also has contributed to several automation industry book chapters and has written more than two dozen technical articles. He developed the first commercial safety system modeling software. Paul is a licensed professional engineer (PE) in Texas and a member of Control System Engineer (CSE) exam team. He earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology.
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Ned Espy has been promoting calibration management with Beamex for more than 20 years. He has directed field experience in instrumentation measurement application for over 27 years. Today, Ned provides technical & application support to Beamex clients and partners throughout North America.
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Roy Tomalino has been teaching calibration management for 14 years. Throughout his career, he has taught on four different continents to people from over 40 countries. His previous roles include technical marketing engineer and worldwide trainer for Hewlett-Packard and application engineer with Honeywell. Today, Roy is responsible for all Beamex training activities in North America.
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Webinar Recording: Drivers for Cloud SCADA Operations
Alternative solutions around virtualization, cloud and mobility are becoming more stable, reachable and cost-competitive to a larger number of industrial SCADA end-users, both large and small. These advancements, along with ever-increasing requirements for a more efficient and cost-effective solution, are leading businesses to look to the cloud as a viable resource. Additionally, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) can help satisfy the demand for increased connectivity, visibility, maintainability and flexibility of systems. Benefits to be gained include delivering solutions more quickly, effectively, efficiently and securely. This ISA webinar discusses some of the drivers for industrial SCADA systems leveraging the latest cloud-based movement to better integrate and support systems, data and resources – allowing increased ability to monitor, predict and control the process system. Connect with Pete:
Pete Rullman is a senior product marketing manager at Honeywell Process Solutions. He has 20+ years of experience in the oil & gas business, primarily focused on SCADA systems. He is based in Houston, Tex.
Webinar Recording: Cybersecurity for Control Systems in Process Automation
Attacks to your production system may happen at any time and at any level — from outside as well as from inside. Which concepts and measures exist to protect your assets efficiently from software attacks? The ISA99 standards development committee brings together industrial cybersecurity experts from across the globe to develop the ISA-62443 (IEC 62443) standards on industrial automation and control systems security. In this ISA webinar, ISA99 Committee Co-Chair Eric Cosman and Robert Thompson, plant security services officer at Siemens. present the current threat landscape and key steps you can take to protect your critical assets in the production environment. Connect with Eric: Connect with Robert:
Industrial security expert Eric Cosman has more than 35 years of experience in the development, delivery, management, and support of operations information technology solutions in the process industries. During his career his assignments and responsibilities have included process automation systems development, communications network design, functional and technical architecture design, and technology lifecycle management. He recently retired as an operations IT consulting engineer with the Dow Chemical Company.
Robert Thompson serves as plant security services officer at Siemens, focusing on risk analysis, vulnerability handing and security training.
Best ISA Webinars of 2017
As 2017 comes to a close, we surveyed the year’s lineup of educational webinars to select five of the most popular presentations co-hosted with ISA’s partners. Scroll down and enjoy this roundup of “best of the best” webinars.
Large Project Execution – A Better Way
There are many challenges to effectively executing automation scope as overall project size grows to $100 million and beyond. Interfaces between various stakeholders and proper distribution of work become critical to define and manage properly. The traditional model of sole-sourcing an EPC to handle everything, including the automation scope, has inherent weaknesses that can be mitigated by an alternate approach. Join us as we review common problems with executing automation scope in large projects and present solutions proven to be effective.
Cybersecurity for Control Systems in Process Automation
Attacks to your production system may happen at any time and at any level – from outside as well as from inside. Which concepts and measures exist to protect your assets efficiently from software attacks? The ISA99 standards development committee brings together industrial cybersecurity experts from across the globe to develop the ISA-62443 (IEC 62443) standards on industrial automation and control systems security. German-based Siemens AG is a leading provider of automation equipment, global manufacturing company with close to 300 factories and provider of Industrial Security Services. In this webinar, ISA99 Committee Co-Chair Eric Cosman and Siemens Plant Security Services PSSO Robert Thompson will present the current threat landscape and key steps you can take to protect your critical assets in the production environment.
How to Avoid the Most Common Mistakes in Field Calibration
Field process calibration isn’t just about getting the job done, it’s about getting the job done right. It’s cliché, but true. Instrument calibration requires the proper process, tools and parameters for each instrument application to ensure valid results. If one of the three are lacking, your results could have little validity. In this webinar, experts will expose the most easy-to-make mistakes and how to avoid them, so you can be confident in your calibration results.
Unlocking the Truth Behind Alarm Management Metrics
Alarm Management is a well understood process, supported by global standards and operating best practices. But ultimately, the process of Alarm Management goes beyond Alarm Benchmarking and KPI Reporting. To drive alarm system improvement, action is required. So, what action should you take? What are the metrics really telling you about how your plant is operating? In this joint presentation, Honeywell’s Global Alarm Management Product Director Tyron Vardy and Manufacturing Technology Fellow Nicholas Sands unlock the truth behind your plant’s alarm management metrics.
Protecting Cyber Assets and Manifest Destiny from the Industrial Internet of Threats
During the 1800s, settlers saw it as their “Manifest Destiny” to settle the American West; but, found their lands under attack by the cattlemen surrounding them. The Manifest Destiny of industrial process and power generation companies is under similar assault. Bands of outlaws, or hackers, are cutting down perimeter-based defenses and successfully infiltrating process control networks (PCN). They are aided by growing attack surfaces created by the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) adoption; it is why IIoT is often referred to as the Industrial Internet of Threats. These and other factors put the highly complex, proprietary, and heterogeneous cyber assets in the plant at risk. Watch this webinar to listen to a discussion on the current landscape of ICS cybersecurity solutions. We will share how ISA advises companies to proceed and discuss “gotchas” that can derail an ICS cybersecurity initiative.
