Secure OT System Architecture

OT Cybersecurity & IEC 62443 Training Workshop in Mumbai in May 2024

Join us on 2nd and 3rd May 2024 in Mumbai, India for the Abhisam OT Cybersecurity Training workshop. This is the fourth time that Abhisam’s India office will be holding the workshop in the past few months. As you probably know by now, Abhisam’s flagship course is the popular Certified Industrial Cybersecurity Professional course (CICP course) that is taken by hundreds of professionals all over the world. Additionally, Abhisam …

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NIST 800-82 Rev 3

NIST 800-82 Rev 3 now released

We had recently posted about the NIST 800-82 Special Publication Revision 2 being updated and the draft version being published. Now this draft has been formally approved and hence now we have a full version available for implementation by stakeholders such as Asset Owners, Engineering Design Consultants, Contractors, Automation vendors, OT Cybersecurity professionals and any other persons or organizations who need to be aware of OT Cybersecurity.   What …

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Intrinsic Safety Design

What is Intrinsic Safety? Intrinsic Safety is one of the several protection techniques used in hazardous areas. This type of protection is applicable to electrical apparatus in which the electrical circuits themselves are incapable of causing an explosion in the surrounding explosive atmospheres. This short Intrinsic Safety design guide will give you an idea of how Intrinsic Safety is used in hazardous areas. What are Hazardous Areas? Hazardous Areas …

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Abhisam Discounted Online Courses

Discounted Online Courses from Abhisam

Discounted courses Black Friday offer For this Thanksgiving in 2022, Abhisam has a great Black Friday 2022 offer for course bundles, as well for the Certified HAZOP Leader course, which eligible participants can get at a huge discount! To see  what’s on offer please visit the Offers page at https://www.abhisam.com/discounted-online-courses The offers will be live until end of business hours on 30th Nov 2022. So hurry up and get …

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Supply Chain Cyber Security

Supply Chain Cyber Security Training module for ICS Security

Abhisam will soon be adding  a new Supply Chain Cyber Security Training module to its popular Industrial Cybersecurity training course. This module will be part of the Advanced Modules 2 in the Certified Industrial Cybersecurity Professional training course (CICP) and will be available to learners who opt for the Professional version of the course. What is supply chain cyber security? What are supply chain attacks? Any system that uses …

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IEC 62443 training

IEC 62443 Training

This brief guide will explain how to take IEC 62443 training at a much lower cost today than in earlier years. Note: The most cost effective and easiest way to learn all IEC 62443 essentials is to take the Abhisam Certified Industrial Cybersecurity Professional training course. This fully self-paced, online course consisting of text, voice over, videos, animations, assessments and exercises, can be taken anytime from anywhere via any …

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IEC 62443 guide

IEC 62443 Guide

Here’s a guide to IEC 62443. After going through this (somewhat short) IEC 62443 guide, you will understand how it helps you secure your Industrial Automation and Control Systems (IACS for short) against cyber threats. Let us understand more about it, why it was developed and where it can be used. What is IEC 62443? IEC 62443 is not a single document, but a set of standards, practices and …

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IEC 62443 Foundational Requirements

IEC 62443 Foundational Requirements

If you have been working in the field of Industrial Control Systems cyber security (ICS security) or in the broader Operational Technology cybersecurity domain (OT security) then you may have heard of the standard ANSI/ISA/IEC 62443, referred to these days as simply IEC 62443. This standard has certain Foundational Requirements that are important and these are explained in short here. This short guide will explain these IEC 62443  Foundational …

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IEC 61511 and IEC 61508

What is the difference between IEC 61511 and IEC 61508?

In the next few minutes of reading this you will understand the difference between IEC 61511 and IEC 61508. What is IEC 61511? IEC 61511 is the process industry standard for Functional Safety and Safety Instrumented Systems. This standard has been developed by the International Electrotechnical Commission and is used globally. Process industries are those industries that handle bulk materials (rather than discrete parts) and include the Oil & …

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Safety Instrumented Systems IEC 61511

Safety Instrumented Systems IEC 61511

Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS for short) that are used in the process industry sector, such as Oil and Gas platforms, Petroleum refineries, chemical manufacturing plants, pulp and paper, fossil fuel power generation plants and so on generally comply with the international standard IEC 61511.  This standard, published by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) is the most widely used standard all over the world for building and maintaining SIS in …

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