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Stopping Stuxnet Attacks

Throughout the Industry Today, One of the Strongest Safeguards for Manufacturers Against Stuxnet-like Worms Points Toward Host-Intrusion Prevention Systems or
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Knowledge Remains King

State of the Art IEC 61511 Gives Manufacturers the Ability to Identify Process Hazards and then Create Safeguards to Protect
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HAZCOM: It’s the Law

Standard brought protective measures against hazards since 1983, but to this day it remains one of the most frequently violated
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Getting to Core of Safer Plants

It is Inherently Safer to Develop Processes with Wide Operating Limits that are Less Sensitive to Burps and Upsets that
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Firing Up a Burner System

Addition of New Technology through Safety Instrumented System Brings Paper Mill More Advanced Diagnostics and a Big Boost in Security
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Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from Eric Byres’ Practical SCADA Security blog at Tofino Security. By Eric Byres SCADA/ICS security is in worse shape than I thought. Much worse shape. That was the realization I came to after attending Digital Bond’s S4 SCADA Security Symposium. While all the “Firesheep/Project Basecamp” ICS/SCADA disclosures were interesting, and already reported on, I will not repeat that information. Instead, I want to discuss...

    Stuxnet. Compliance. Regulations. Cyber attacks. Malware. Worms. Penetration testing. Risk analysis. All are words that are relatively new to the manufacturing automation vernacular and could cause some angst on the plant floor. But they don’t have to.