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Fundamentals can Stop AI
AI just crossed from cyber hype into cyber capability. The only defense that scales with it is the unglamorous work most teams keep deferring – Fundamentals.
Governance will Define Agentic AI Success
AI agents are coming for your business. Industry predictions claim the number of tasks executed by agents will grow at a CAGR of 524 percent to reach 415 trillion by 2030.
5 Risks by AI PCs
The next wave of corporate endpoints is already here. AI-powered PCs, equipped with dedicated neural processing units (NPUs), which have the capability to run generative AI workloads locally on the endpoint instead of sending data to the cloud.
Cyber Certifications: A Commitment to Safeguarding What Matters
In today’s interconnected industrial landscape, whether or not cybersecurity threats are increasing is no longer up for debate. The most valuable discussion now centers on how we collectively address them.
Know Your Environment for Best PPE
The manufacturing industry is on the cusp of significant growth, with 2025 projections showing a 4.2 percent increase in overall revenues and a 5.2 percent rise in capital expenditures.
Comparison of Security Frameworks
International frameworks exist to define industrial security requirements and best practices.
AI can Boost Cyber Resilience
Today, the manufacturing industry stands at a transformative crossroads of unprecedented innovation and emerging cyber threats, demanding a deeper look at how we approach cybersecurity, resilience, and operational efficiency.
NIS2 Directive: Raising the Security Bar
The NIS2 Directive signals a transformative shift in European cybersecurity legislation, raising the bar for organizations across sectors to safeguard their digital infrastructures.
Runtime Application Self Protection for Memory Security
Within industrial control systems (ICS), the number of memory safety vulnerabilities has seen a steady rise over the last 10 years, from less than 1,000 CVEs in 2014 to nearing 3,000 in 2023 alone.
How to Close the Risk Management Gap
As more organizations continuously embrace and adopt digital transformation strategies, they expose themselves to an increasingly interconnected web of cyber vulnerabilities.
Functional Safety Assessment Stage 1 can Discover Critical Flaws Early
Imagine discovering a critical flaw in your safety system design before your plant goes operational. This scenario, while nerve-wracking, underscores the importance of early intervention in the design phase.
Averting 5 Common Alarm Management Issues
During my over 24 years in alarm management, I have collaborated with various companies on their distributed control systems (DCS) across the United States and throughout 20 other countries.
Keys to Finding, Retaining Cybersecurity Talent
With cyberattacks on the rise, cybersecurity is more important than ever. Yet manufacturers and organizations of all kinds are struggling to retain top-notch cybersecurity experts. If your enterprise is staring down the cybersecurity skills gap, here are the steps you can take to fill it.
Functional Safety Assessment: More Than a Checked Box
A Functional Safety Assessment (FSA) is defined by the IEC 61511 standard as an “investigation, based on evidence, to judge the functional safety achieved by one or more SIS and/or other protection layers.”
Periodic Stage 4 Functional Safety Assessment: A Good Practice
In 2016, the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) published Edition 2 of the IEC 61511 standard, “Functional Safety – Safety Instrumented Systems for the Process Industry Sector,” which the International Society of Automation (ISA) 84 committee also adopted in 2018 as a U.S. national standard (ANSI/ISA 61511.2-2018).
Cybersecurity: Getting Ahead of Regulations, Threats
Manufacturing is under attack. Manufacturing was the most targeted sector by ransomware gangs in the last 12 months with 528 total victims, according to new research. This accounted for a 19.5 percent of all ransomware victims. Without a new defense strategy, manufacturers are at high risk – especially with new groups such as Chernovite and Bentonite focusing on the industry.
Effective use of Machinery Safety Standards
The high-level goal of the numerous machinery safety standards is to reduce injuries associated with machinery interaction. An additional advantage of applying these standards is the effective identification of hazards and analysis of risk, which can have far-reaching impacts and extensive benefits.
As Robot Usage Grows, So Does Risk
South Korea, Singapore, Japan, Germany, and Sweden are the most automated countries in the world, according to the World Robotics 2021 reports, published by the International Federation of Robotics (IFR). While the U.S. lags behind, it is rapidly picking up pace as technology advances and organizations search for solutions to labor shortages.
Proactive Protection from Nitrogen, the Silent Killer
After the Chemical Safety Board (CSB) filed an update on the January 28, 2021 tragedy at the Foundation Food Group (FFG) poultry facility in Gainesville, Georgia, that left six workers dead and at least 12 others injured, it just pointed out the stark reminder of the danger that nitrogen poses when leaked into a confined space, causing a drop in oxygen concentration that can lead to dire consequences.
AI for Secure Manufacturing
Artificial intelligence (AI) will end up used in the daily operations of a majority of organizations in the next three years and will be deploying it via cloud-based infrastructure to reduce issues of integration, scaling and security, according to the Gartner research group.