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Critical components need to be assessed to achieve a robust cybersecurity system.
Security
Manufacturing Cybersecurity: Critical Components for Risk Assessment
By the second quarter of 2020, cyberattacks targeting manufacturers accounted for 33% of all incidents across all industries with losses totaling hundreds of millions of dollars. Small businesses are also at risk.
March 28, 2021

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Automation
Fast-Track Fulfillment of a Frozen Food Favorite
Now better positioned to keep up with yearly double-digit growth of its popular Uncrustables line, The J. M. Smucker Company creates a highly automated facility that boasts the largest single baking line in the world.
June 5, 2020
A sophisticated system allows Smucker to add pack sizes without major impacts to the line.
Security
OpX Tool Seeks to Help Manufacturers with Remote Equipment Access
The OpX Leadership Network evaluates various approaches to ensuring safe and secure remote equipment access in plants.
February 6, 2020
Remote Equipment Access infographic
Security
How Kellogg Manages Cybersecurity Risks in Manufacturing
Seeing the writing on the wall as Mondelēz and other global companies became collateral damage in ransomware attacks, Kellogg set out to create a cybersecurity strategy that would keep it out of the headlines.
January 9, 2020
Jim Tassell, senior IT security architect for Kellogg, presents the food maker’s cybersecurity journey at the Automation Fair’s Food and Beverage Forum.
Software
How serious are you about alarm management?
An Automation World reader survey detects a rising interest in alarm management best practices. It finds that, though many users are investing in new software, many are also missing the boat by giving their alarm philosophy short shrift.
October 2, 2019
Going to grayscale is catching on as a best practice in alarm management. Reserving color for abnormalities draws the operator’s
Security
Focusing on Digital Plant Safety
Manufacturers and OEMs must understand that there are many sides to machine safety, including standards, regulations, functional requirements, technology, and even unforeseen circumstances.
October 2, 2019
Making the Plant a Safe Place
IIoT
Understanding IoT cybersecurity risks
Deloitte and Dragos share the top threats to organizations and the need for a secure-by-design approach to the Internet of Things.
August 30, 2019
Understanding IoT Cybersecurity Risks
IIoT
Battle for Cybersecurity Spreads to Sensors
Even the lowest level of the Purdue model has become a target for hackers who want to attack manufacturing facilities. Automation vendors are scrambling to help users defend sensors and other intelligent devices.
August 29, 2019
Security routers and other appliances that can serve as firewalls need to be installed in industrial networks
Security
Thinking through remote access cybersecurity
A systems integrator/cybersecurity analyst outlines the risks associated with letting third-party partners — and internal engineers — into the manufacturing network, and the things that can be done to avoid trouble.
June 12, 2019
Thinking Through Remote Access Cybersecurity
Security
The Pros and Cons of Smart Instruments
Automation World has launched its new podcast series aimed at answering reader questions. The first question addressed in the series focuses on the difference between smart and traditional instruments, as well as concerns about smart instrument cybersecurity.
May 7, 2019
Automation World has launched its new podcast series aimed at answering reader questions. The first question addressed in the series focuses on the difference between smart and traditional instruments, as well as concerns about smart instrument cybersecur
Security
Emerson earns industry-first cybersecurity certification
ISASecure® SSA Level 1 certification distinguishes Emerson’s DeltaV automation system for meeting industry-consensus cybersecurity standards for process and safety controls.
March 18, 2019
Global technology and engineering leader Emerson announced it's the first company in the industry to receive a ISASecure® System Security Assurance (SSA™) Level 1 certification for cybersecurity.
IIoT
Manufacturers can make safety a profit center
Schneider Electric outlines how the soon-to-be-announced Safety Advisor technology, based on Triconex and EcoStruxure, will create a “profitable safety” business model.
January 8, 2019
The digitization of data can turn safety systems into intelligent assets that feed into the bottom line of the business.
Security
Seven-step cybersecurity checklist
Amid all the cybersecurity concerns and advice circulating throughout industry, a short checklist can be a good ongoing reference to make sure you're on track.
November 28, 2018
Amid all the cybersecurity concerns and advice circulating throughout the industry, a short checklist can be an ongoing reference to make sure you're on track.
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