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Thursday, August 14, 2008
ACS Cyber Security Conference Wrap-up
Dr. Nate Kube and myself attended the Applied Control Solutions Conference last week in Chicago, and it was an interesting event to say the least. Joe Weiss, the organizer of this event, has always done well with a “central theme” in such events, and this year was no exception.
Initial Impressions:
The conference opened with a video presentation from US Congressman Langevin, and it is clear that the issue of SCADA and control systems security are an important issue to him and the US Government. See the video hereI was surprised at the number of IT folks there, from a ...
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Monday, August 04, 2008
Safety Demo at This Week’s ACS Conference in Chicago
If you are familiar with safety and SIL as defined in ISA-84 and IEC61508, then you are also aware that when a process engineers considers the “safety” of a given component, they are usually considering only the potential for random hardware faults in such a component, and the reliability or likelihood of the safety components to be able to maintain a safe state of the operating equipment. They do not address, explicitly, systematic faults related to software, security issues, etc., as these were generally considered to be too difficult to predict. It is a generally well known and accepted position ...
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