ICS Cybersecurity Risk Assessment

What is ICS Cybersecurity Risk Assessment?

In this short guide, we will take a look at what we mean by ICS security assessment. ICS  is short for industrial Control Systems. These may be DCS (Distributed Control Systems), or PLC (Programmable Logic Controllers) based, or some form of SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition Systems) or any other programmable type systems. These include not only BPCS (Basic Process Control Systems) but also SIS (Safety Instrumented Systems). …

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ISA TR 84

ISA-TR84.00.09-2023 Cybersecurity related to the Functional Safety Lifecycle-Draft published

The ISA-TR84.00.09-2023 Part 1 (Draft) technical report is ready for review and comments. You can download the draft isa-tr84.00.09 pdf and if you have any comments, you can submit them to the ISA committee, if the committee approves, it will be incorporated into the next draft or published as the final report after all approved changes, comments have been incorporated. What is ISA TR 84? ISA is the International …

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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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LOPA Swiss Cheese model

All about LOPA-Layer of Protection Analysis

What is LOPA? LOPA is short for Layer of Protection Analysis. It is also referred to sometimes as Layers of Protection Analysis. It is  considered a semi-quantitative risk assessment technique. Abhisam’s Layer of Protection Analysis training course is an easy way to learn it. What are protection layers? An easy way to understand protection layers is to study an example of a residential house, located in a not so …

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HAZOP Leader Certification

HAZOP Leader Certification

What is the HAZOP Leader Certification program? Abhisam’s HAZOP Leader Certification program has become one of the more popular programs, due to it being a completely online now and a completely self paced program that the participant can complete, at their own pace. Entry into the program is only for professionals having at least a Bachelors degree/Higher National Diploma in a technical field with relevant industrial experience and a …

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Safety Instrumented Systems a life-cycle approach

Safety Instrumented Systems- a Life-cycle approach works best

What are Safety Instrumented Systems? Safety Instrumented Systems are automation systems that kick into action when some deviation from the normal operating parameters has the potential to trigger an unwanted incident. These include both (relatively) simple systems like OPS (overfill prevention systems), that prevent overfilling a storage tank by sensing the high level and automatically stopping the inlet flow on high level, as well as more complex systems such …

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Competency Management System

IEC TR 61511-4:2020- Competency Management Requirements

What is IEC TR 61511-4: 2020? This is the latest publication in the IEC 61511 (Functional Safety – safety instrumented systems for the process industry sector) series. It  is a Technical Report which gives explanations for updates to the various clauses in the latest edition of IEC 61511. According to the IEC website this technical report: • specifies the rationale behind all clauses and the relationship between them, • …

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Free Functional Safety ebook pdf

Free Functional Safety Book pdf | Abhisam

Abhisam is pleased to launch its Quick Guide to Basic Functional Safety & SIL, which is being offered free for a limited time. This free functional safety book pdf guide/Safety Instrumented System pdf explains everything that you need to know about the basics of functional safety and SIL (safety integrity level). This can be used by any engineer or technical professional who wants to understand Functional Safety as used …

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LOPA- Layer of Protection Analysis Training & Certification

LOPA Training Course Abhisam is pleased to announce that its updated LOPA Training Course,  is now available online. This is a self-paced course and can be started anytime and completed at your own convenience. Interesting animations & simulations, videos, actual real life scenarios and examples, worksheets, exercises make this one of the best LOPA training courses available anywhere! LOPA Certification The Abhisam LOPA Course is the most comprehensive course …

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Cyber security – Oil and Gas industries

This paper  related to cyber security oil and gas industries, is available as a part of the Abhisam Industrial Cybersecurity report, which can be downloaded now. Author: H Sreedhar. Recent History of Automation in Oil & Gas   The Oil and Gas industry (O & G for short) has been a pioneer in embracing digital technology. It was one of the first industrial sectors to transition to Distributed Control …

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