Operational Technology

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 …

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 …

OT Cyber Security Training Workshop at Toyo Engineering India at Mumbai

OT Cyber Security Training workshop in Mumbai, India Abhisam successfully conducted an OT Cyber security Training workshop, at Toyo Engineering India’s Mumbai office. The two day workshop was attended by more than 35 senior engineering and IT professionals from Toyo. This comprehensive event included OT/ICS cyber security, as well as IEC 62443 training, ISO 27001 training and NIST 800-82 training. Toyo Engineering India Private Limited (Toyo-India), an Engineering Consultancy …

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OT Security and IEC 62443 training at GACL

Abhisam’s India office is pleased to announce that they successfully conducted two OT Security IEC 62443 training workshops at Gujarat Alkalies and Chemicals Limited (GACL) at their Vadodara and Dahej manufacturing sites. If you would like to organize a similar event for your industrial sites that utilize OT systems, please get in touch with us OR attend one of our public OT Security training events that will start from …

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 …

Supply chain attacks can use counterfeit switches

Supply Chain Attacks- ICS Security implications

Supply Chain attacks are something to watch out for In the recently published Abhisam Industrial Cybersecurity Report, we had mentioned supply chain attacks, as something to watch out for in 2024. We never imagined that we would be so right. These supply chain attacks are pretty broad in scope and are not just related to the Industrial Control System devices, such as DCS controllers or SIS Logic Solvers but …