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 …
Process Safety and Cyber security Abhisam is pleased to announce that a new course “Cybersecurity for Process Safety Professionals” will be available soon. This course enables Process Safety Professionals to understand basic concepts of cybersecurity and incorporate cyber security considerations, such as cyber attacks on Industrial Control systems into the Safety Studies and Risk assessments that they carry out. Abhisam GOLD Members and PLATINUM members will get access to …
Understand Supply chain cyber security to protect your Industrial Control System against supply chain attacks In this short guide, let us understand Supply Chain cyber security. This is important to understand to protect your IACS against attacks that can happen via the different components used by your Industrial Control System and your Safety Instrumented System. This topic is covered in the latest version of the Abhisam Certified Industrial Cybersecurity …
This short guide will explain all aspects of SCADA Security Certification. But first we will understand what is a SCADA. What is SCADA? SCADA is short for Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition System. These systems are used in a wide variety of industries from electrical grids (electrical substation SCADA) to pipeline monitoring systems. A typical SCADA consists of remote terminal units (RTUs), and/or PLCs (Programmable Logic Controllers) and/or IED …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Abhisam is pleased to announce that the Industrial Cybersecurity Training Course (Certified Industrial Cybersecurity Professional) has now an updated module on OT Security standards. The previous module titled IACS Security Standards has been thoroughly revised and has got several new sections that cover a lot about the parts of the ANSI/ISA/ IEC 62443 standard that have been published so far. What is the CICP program? Abhisam introduced the Industrial …
HAZOP Training in India Abhisam is pleased to announce that Instructor led training workshops on HAZOP, are being restarted from June 2022. Accordingly you can now easily get HAZOP Training in India via a traditional, classroom type workshop that gives a hands on experience in conducting a HAZOP Study. What is HAZOP? What is the full form of HAZOP? HAZOP is a Hazard and Risk Assessment technique used …
