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News Item: exida Presenting and Exhibiting at the 2018 Rockwell Automation Fair
exida will be presenting and exhibiting at the 2018 ROCKWELL AUTOMATION FAIR. The fair will be held at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from November 14–15, 2018. Stop by Booth 1817 and say hello. Automation Fair® is the premier industrial automation event offering unmeasurable knowledge and skill-building opportunities…
Recorded Webinars: What Really is Functional Safety Management?
IEC61511 defines that a Functional Safety Management System be put in place to manage the Safety Lifecycle activities, but what really does that all entail?
The IEC61511 Standard is built around a safety lifecycle (SLC™) to provide a consistent approach to risk identification and risk reduction, in accordance with a company’s tolerable risk. This webinar will introduce the SLC™ along with what is risk and how to manage it. We will then discover at how Managers need to be competent when it comes to managing SLC™ tasks; along with being responsible for personnel who are performing SLC™ tasks. We will wrap up the webinar considering the importance of performing preventative maintenance and how arbitrarily cutting expenditure on maintenance could lead to serious incidents and litigation.
News Item: exida to Present at 13th Annual API Cybersecurity Conference for the Oil and Gas Industry
exida Senior Cybersecurity Engineer Robert Michalsky will be presenting at the 13th Annual API Cybersecurity Conference for the Oil and Gas Industry on November 6th at the Woodlands Waterway Marriot Hotel in Woodlands, TX. Michalsky will be a part of SESSION A1: Cyberattacks Metrics / Measures located in room Waterway…
Blog Entry: Using SILSafeData to Check Your Failure Data Source
www.SILSafeData.com is a complimentary resource that contains the upper and lower bounds failure rates for many categories of automation equipment, as well as the methodology used by exida to derive the numbers. Many of you have asked how to use this data. As an example, let’s look at a control…
News Item: exida Article on Cybersecurity Published in Valve Magazine
An article titled Jumpstart Cyberthreat with High-Level Risk Assessments authored by exida Cyber engineer Patrick O'Brien has been published in Valve Magazine . Cybersecurity is a major concern for industrial control systems, but the continually evolving nature of the field and the sheer amount of existing threats and vulnerabilities make…
Recorded Webinars: Seven Steps to a Peaceful Control Room
How to Implement an Effective Alarm Management Program for your DeltaV System” (Emex 2016)
Has the alarm horn become the nemesis of your operators? This presentation from the 2016 Emersob Exchange describes how to create (build) an effective and sustainable program using ISA-18.2’s alarm management lifecycle (the blueprint) and DeltaV’s alarm management capabilities (the tools). It shows how following the program will allow you to address common alarm management issues (alarm overload, nuisance alarms, alarm floods, incorrectly prioritized alarms) and create a control room environment that maximizes operator performance, improves process safety, and drives operational discipline.
Blog Entry: Bad Actor Knockdown: The “Whac-A-Mole” of Alarm Management?
As discussed in What do Nuisance Alarms, the 80-20 Rule, and Mental Models Have in Common? , there are typically a handful of alarm points (10 to 20) that create the majority of notifications (50-80%) to the operator (referencing the 80-20 rule). These nuisance alarms are affectionately called “bad actors”…
Microfinish Valves Pvt. Ltd. - Series T84, T85, T87, T89, T90 and T91
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Recorded Webinars: Leveraging IEC 62443 Security Level (SL) Requirements to Define IACS Cybersecurity Metrics
The IEC 62443 document series is an international standard intended to provide a flexible framework to enhance Industrial Automation Control System (IACS) cybersecurity. Seven core functional requirements are used to assist with the design, development, testing and construction of an integrated security architecture. As the Security Level (SL) targets and capabilities are defined, cybersecurity metrics become necessary to be able to assess the efficacy and comprehensiveness of the design. These Security Levels are organized into four increasing tiers each requiring more stringent controls be in place.
As the security architecture matures and the logical and physical assets are grouped into zones, they need to be evaluated along with the connections and data flows between zones that are called conduits. Both the zones and conduits need appropriate security controls to insure plant operational safety. Cybersecurity Best Practices have principles (such as ‘defense in depth’) that can be evaluated through cybersecurity metrics that evaluate architectural components such as zones and conduits.
Furthermore, security is a process that requires continual risk management and risk reduction via the mitigation of identified threats. Cybersecurity metrics are generated and evaluated to determine if adequate risk management is being enabled. Through the usage of well defined, repeatable and accurate cybersecurity metrics, SL adequacy can be assessed.
This presentation goes through the IEC 62443 foundational requirements and describes appropriate and relevant security metrics for evaluating that architectural components such as zones and conduits have appropriate cybersecurity controls in place and that the SL target has been achieved.
News Item: exida Announces Channel Partnership with Microwatt
As the global leader in functional safety, control system cybersecurity, and alarm management for the process industries, exida is pleased to announce their new channel partnership with industrial process and instrumentation solution provider, MicroWatt Controls. MicroWatt specializes in flame and gas detection, burner control application consultation, training, and on-site installation…
Blog Entry: Does Your Burner Management System Meet Your Tolerable Risk?
My previous blog mentioned the fact that a Burner Management System 〈BMS〉 is unique, in that this instrumented layer is the last line of defense and may be the only protection layer in the case of a BPCS failure. Have you ever performed an analysis to determine if the BMS…
News Item: Complimentary Functional Safety & Industrial Cybersecurity Seminar in Kentucky
Please join us on the afternoon of November 14th for a complimentary seminar in Paducah, KY. The seminar will be a great opportunity to learn more about important topics relating to Functional Safety, Industrial Cybersecurity, and Alarm Management. Standards, Trends and and Integrated Approach to the Lifecycles of Automation for…
News Item: exida Exhibiting at the 2018 Automotive Testing Expo
exida will be exhibiting at this year's Automotive Testing Expo on October 23-25, 2018 at Hall B, The Suburban Collection Showplace, Novi, MI, USA Stop by Booth 3050 and say hello. ABOUT THE CONFERENCE Automotive Testing Expo North America is held in Novi, Michigan, USA and showcases the very latest…
News Item: Complimentary Functional Safety & Industrial Cybersecurity Seminar in California
Please join us on the afternoon of November 7th for a half-day complimentary seminar. The seminar will be a great opportunity to learn more about important topics relating to Functional Safety and Industrial Cybersecurity. This seminar will cover: the integrated lifecycle approach to safety and security benefits of quantitative analysis…
Tokyo Keiso - Torque Tube Type Level Transmitter FST4000 Series
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Recorded Webinars: Alarm Management and ISA-18.2 / IEC 62682 – How Do I Get Started?
Don’t get started on the wrong track. This presentation shows how to begin creating an effective alarm management program that complies with the ISA-18.2 / IEC 62682 standards. Performing a thorough alarm system performance benchmark and gap assessment is often the first step in creating a sustainable alarm management program and gaining management buy-in. This presentation discusses tools, techniques, and methodologies for characterizing current performance, identifying systematic issues, and identifying (as well as closing) gaps compared to ISA-18.2 / IEC 62682.
This joint presentation between exida and SyTech will demonstrate how tools such as XLReporter can make it easy to measure alarm system performance. Combine this tool with exida’s alarm management expertise and see how easy it is to set a course for improved alarm management.
Co-presented by: Peter Kaprielian, Chief Technology Officer at SyTech
Blog Entry: Managing Unconfirmed Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities like Supermicro
Unconfirmed vulnerabilities are not usually a big issue, but when one occurs like Supermicro , plant management will ask a simple question: “Do we have an issue or not?” Having been on the receiving end of this blunt exchange, I realize it can be painful and embarrassing to communicate, “I…
CORTEC - D0 & LD Series
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
CORTEC - Models CRV / CX-RV
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
News Item: National Instruments Wins the 2018 exida Safety Award
The global leader in functional safety, cybersecurity, and alarm management for the process industries, exida, has presented National Instruments (NI) with the exida Logic Solver Safety Award for their product, the NI 9351. The exida Safety Awards honor exida-certified products or processes that best demonstrate new and innovative work in…