Cybersecurity Viewpoints

In an analyst/media event held October 22 at Yokogawa Engineering Asia headquarters in Singapore, KBC (A Yokogawa Company) announced the launch of a new Energy and Sustainability Co-Pilot hub to serve the Asia Pacific and Middle East regions.

ARC will be attending and presenting at the ICS Cyber Security Conference next week in Atlanta on the topic of cybersecurity as it relates to supplier selection.

​​​​​​​Schneider Electric released the new Tricon CX v11.4 with enhanced cybersecurity features and performance.  The Triconex Tricon CX platform is a core solution of Schneider Electric’s safety capability portfolio.

By now many of you have probably read the blockbuster story from Bloomberg/BusinessWeek called The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate US Companies, which outlined a complex and far-reaching scheme on the part of the People’s Liberation Army of China to infiltrate server motherboards manufactured by Supermicro, described by the Bloomberg as the “Microsoft of the hardware world.”

For industry users, Amazon Web Services (AWS) may still seem like the new kid on the block, but the company has been doing business since 2006.

Honeywell has added new cybersecurity consulting services designed to help industrial and critical infrastructure customers identify and eliminate dangerous security weaknesses.

The IoT Solutions World Congress (IOTSWC), 16.-18. October 2018 in Barcelona, is dedicated to connecting IoT providers with industry stakeholders, to help the latter to increase their productivity via this disruptive technology.

ARC Advisory Group research indicates that while many companies across a wide spectrum of industries have implemented cybersecurity technologies to protect their facilities, few have the resources to sustain their effectiveness.  Lack of cybersecurity expertise also constrains use of more advanced anomaly and breach detection solutions that enable rapid detection and removal of system compromises. 

In a ceremony on September 25 held at its regional headquarters complex in Singapore, Yokogawa Engineering Asia launched In-Space (short for Innovation Space), a customer experience centre that offers an immersive environment for industrial clients to experience the com

DHS Guidance on Cybersecurity reveals the threat of coordinated cyberattacks on critical infrastructure and manufacturing in the US by hostile nation states is increasing.