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Phoenix Contact Development and Manufacturing Inc. - Line Fault Monitoring
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Phoenix Contact Development and Manufacturing Inc. - IOA Pluggable Modules
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Recorded Webinars: Cyber Risk Assessments and Security Level Verification: High-Level Risk Assessments (Part 1 of 3)
This three webinar series will walk through the fundamental methodology behind High-Level Risk Assessments, Detailed Risk Assessments, and Security Level Verification. The series will also discuss the relationships between the lifecycle steps, and the flow of information from one analysis to the next. The first webinar will provide a detailed review of the steps and objectives for a High-Level Risk Assessment as well as the benefits of completing a High-Level Risk Assessment, and frame the scope of discussion for the remaining webinars in this series.
Training Course: Layer of Protection Analysis with exSILentia®
This Course is Also Offered Online FSE 243 explains how the exSILentia LOPAx™ module is used to conduct a Layer of Protection Analysis. This course is targeted towards students that have a general understanding of layer of protection analysis and safety requirements specifications who want to learn how to leverage…
Blog Entry: Cyber Risk Assessments and Security Level Verification: High-Level Risk Assessments (Part 1 of 3)
As the number, scale, and connectivity of industrial automation systems continues to grow, it becomes increasingly crucial to fundamentally understand, evaluate, and manage cybersecurity risks. The objective of an effective cybersecurity management program should be to maintain the industrial automation system consistent with corporate risk criteria. Ownership for industrial automation…
Service: Functional Safety Assessment 5
A Functional Safety Assessment (FSA) is defined as an investigation, based on evidence, to judge the functional safety achieved by one or more SIS and/or other protection layers. exida has become recognized as the global leader in functional safety certifications with a strong global acceptance and a growing base of…
Service: Functional Safety Assessment 4
A Functional Safety Assessment (FSA) is defined as an investigation, based on evidence, to judge the functional safety achieved by one or more SIS and/or other protection layers. exida has become recognized as the global leader in functional safety certifications with a strong global acceptance and a growing base of…
Service: Functional Safety Assessment 3
A Functional Safety Assessment (FSA) is defined as an investigation, based on evidence, to judge the functional safety achieved by one or more SIS and/or other protection layers. exida has become recognized as the global leader in functional safety certifications with a strong global acceptance and a growing base of…
News Item: exida Presenting and Exhibiting at 2018 Emerson Global User Exchange
exida will be presenting and exhibiting at the 2018 Emerson Global User Exchange to be held October 1-5, 2018 in San Antonio,TX. Stop by Booth #1022 during exhibit hours. Also, Iwan van Beurden, exida Chief Technology Officer, Todd Stauffer, exida Director of Alarm Management, and Loren Stewart, exida Safety Engineer,…
Recorded Webinars: IEC61511 and IEC62443 Personnel Competency FAQ
International standards, IEC61511 Functional Safety and IEC62443 Cybersecurity, have become household names. Did you know that both of these standards reference strong language around personnel competency? Due to requirements within these standards, many potential candidates “want” or “need” a certain level of competency to comply. This webinar will help answer the most frequent questions asked when dealing with Personnel Certification.
Blog Entry: Is It Possible to Extend Proof Test Intervals?
I am often asked whether extending proof test intervals will be a problem. This is a tricky question. The design and engineering SIL calculations for the Safety Instrumented Functions (SIFs) are taking credit for a specific proof test interval with a defined level of coverage, as defined within the Safety…
News Item: Profire Energy Achieves SIL 2 CERTIFICATION for PF3100 Burner Control System
Sellersville, PA: The global leader in functional safety, cybersecurity, and alarm management for the process industries, exida, has certified Profire Energy’s PF3100 Burner Control System for Safety Integrity Level (SIL) 2 capability per IEC 61508: 2010. The PF3100 Burner Control System is a modular, state-of-the-art solution for oilfield professionals. The…
Blog Entry: Functional Safety Assessment of Valve Assemblies (Part 3)
In Part 1 , we covered the emerging trends in the valve assembly market, how these trends relate to IEC 61511 requirements, and the anatomy of final elements. In Part 2 , we discussed the need to show requirements traceability down through the design of the safety instrumented function and…
Recorded Webinars: Preventing Cyber-attacks by following Practical Guidance in IEC 62443
This webinar will provide a brief overview of the IEC62443 family of standards, and then look at recent security breaches to see if they could have been avoided by following the best practices described in these standards. Completely avoiding cyber-attacks is likely not possible, but significantly decreasing the probability of a successful attack is feasible by following these guidelines.
News Item: exida Introduces IEC 62443 OEM Software Development Course
Sellersville, PA: The global leader in functional safety, cybersecurity, and alarm management for the process industries, exida, has added a new course to its Cybersecurity Practitioner program . CS 201 - IEC 62443 Cybersecurity Software Development focuses on techniques for creating and updating software that adds cybersecurity resilience to a…
MICROPACK (Engineering) Ltd. - FDS 303 Multi-Spectrum IR Flame Detector
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
GE Oil & Gas - S760 Trip Manifold Assembly
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Blog Entry: How Much Cybersecurity Do I Need?
During an IACS cybersecurity risk analysis, each zone of a network is given a target security level. The levels are one to four, with one being the least amount of protection and four giving the most protection. For each zone we ask, “How much cybersecurity protection do we need?” “Is…
News Item: exida Hosting IEC Subcommittee 61J meeting and seminar on functional safety
exida will be hosting a meeting of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) Subcommittee 61J Electrical motor-operated cleaning appliances for commercial use on September 18 and 19 at their headquarters in Sellersville, PA (one hour north of Philadelphia, 2 hours west of New York City). On September 17, members of Working…
News Item: exida Article on Cybersecurity Featured in Hydrocarbon Processing
An article on ICS cybersecurity written by Dr. William Goble is featured in the July 2018 issue of Hydrocarbon Processing. Unfortunately, nation states appear to be launching cybersecurity attacks on other nation states. In this “arms war,” some attacks have been focused on industrial control systems (ICS). Three of these…