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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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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log4j

Log4j vulnerability and ICS security

As you may already be aware, a new critical remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) affecting Apache Log4j software library versions 2.0-beta9 to 2.14.1 has been discovered. What is the Log4j vulnerability? Log4j is used in many websites,  consumer and enterprise services and  applications—as well as in operational technology products, which includes even Industrial Control Systems such as DCS, SIS, PLC, SCADA, Process Historians and similar hosts and controllers. For …

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ICS Security training course gets advanced module

Abhisam is pleased to announce that the popular ICS security training course, which is available as an e-course online, will now have an advanced module that can be accessed by all current learners and GOLD members. This will have many sub modules such as concepts of Kill Chains, the MITRE ATT&CK framework for ICS, Honeypots for Industrial Automation and Control systems and more. Cybersecurity is a growing concern for …

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