ICS cyber security for chemical plant

ICS Cyber Security for Chemical Plant

ICS Cyber Security for Chemical plants- Introduction Industrial Control Systems (ICS) are used in all modern chemical plants. These Industrial Control Systems play a crucial role in maintaining the efficiency, reliability, and safety of chemical plant operations. Currently the global chemical industry is facing challenging times related to energy costs, raw material costs and supply chain problems. The last thing it wants are additional risks of disruption due to …

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OT Cyber Security Awareness Training Course

OT Cyber Security Awareness Training Course coming soon

Abhisam is pleased to announce that the Abhisam OT Cyber Security awareness training course will soon be available online. This OT security awareness etraining is a great way to train large numbers of your employees in the basics of OT Cyber Security/Industrial cyber security. This course can be deployed globally via the Abhisam Learning Portal and managers or training administrators can view learner activity and progress via a training …

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free ICS cyber security webinar

Introduction to Industrial Cybersecurity and IEC 62443 webinar

Industrial Cybersecurity webinar series Here’s an interesting piece of industrial cyber security news for you! Abhisam is pleased to announce a free series of industrial cyber security webinars  in the new year 2023. The “Introduction to Industrial Cybersecurity and IEC 62443” webinar, is a primer for anybody who wishes to know more about securing their Industrial Automation, Control and Safety Systems from cyber threats. Note: For a comprehensive certification …

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Functional Safety Industrial Cybersecurity

How Bad Industrial Cybersecurity degrades Functional Safety to being ineffective

Functional Safety and Industrial Cybersecurity- what’s the connection? In this short explanatory white paper, we will discuss how a bad Industrial cybersecurity posture can degrade Functional Safety to be almost ineffective, in protecting assets, people and the environment. Thus having proper Industrial Cybersecurity is a pre-requisite to having proper Functional Safety. What is Functional Safety all about? Functional Safety is a specialized domain within the Safety world, which deals …

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SCADA Security Certification

SCADA Security Certification

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 …

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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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Building Automation System

NIST 800-82 Rev 3 draft released

Update: The Full version of NIST 800-82 Rev 3 has been released. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) that is a part of the US Department of Commerce had invited public comments before release of the Revision 3 of the NIST 800-82  Guide to ICS Security, we had a blog post that talked about this a few months ago here. This Initial public draft has now been …

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Understanding IEC 62443-2-4

What is IEC 62443-2-4? Understand it easily

Abhisam is pleased to announce that a new module on understanding IEC 62443-2-4 is  now a part of the Abhisam Industrial Cybersecurity training course (Professional Version). What is IEC 62443-2-4? As you probably know, the IEC 62443 series of standards is developed jointly by ISA (International Society of Automation) and IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission), to provide guidance for implementing Industrial Cybersecurity.  The term is synonymous with OT Security (Operational …

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