In the world of engineering and technical standards, one of the perennial challenges is determining how to best promote their acceptance and application in industry. Some standards seem to catch on and take off almost immediately, while others languish with little acceptance – or even understanding.

Committee Moves Forward in the Development of 62443 Standards

The ISA99 committee of the International Society of Automation was formed in 2002 to create and maintain a set of stand

I will be joining a webinar and panel discussion next Wednesday hosted by AutomaTech that will also feature Dr. Vincent Turmel, VP of Technical Operations for cybersecurity supplier Bayshore Networks and Eric Byers, CEO of aDolus where we will discuss cybersecurity budgetary planning and spending, with the primary driver being COVID-19 and its accompanying increase in cyber threats and risk.

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) announced the launch of 10 new Threat Management Centers across the globe, that will focus on providing cyber security services to its enterprise customers.

Rockwell Automation announced that it has acquired Oyla a privately-held industrial cybersecurity services provider based in Barcelona, Spain. 

Underwriters Laboratory (UL) and The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) recently announced the SPIRE Smart Building Program that will offer both self-certification programs as well as Verified Assessment Ratings completed jointly by UL and TIA.

Tata Consultancy Services and Yale University jointly announced the launch of a Secure Networking Platform Using Blockchain that could help ensure privacy and trust in peer-to-peer digital networks.

This video by Eric C. Cosman, ARC Contributing Consultant, provides an  in-depth, but non-technical overview of the The Esoteric World of Engineering Standards that apply to the engineering disciplines for automation professionals.

UL, a global safety science organization, announced the debut of its Supplier Cyber Trust Level solution, which helps organizations minimize supply chain cybersecurity risk

Now available as IEC 62443-3-2 and soon to be available for purchase as ISA-62443-3-2, this standard defines a set of engineering measures that guide an organization through the process of assessing the risk of a particular industrial control system and identifying and applying security countermeasures to reduce the security risk to tolerable levels.