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Personnel Training: A Critical Third Step in Cybersecurity
The best cybersecurity plan is only as good as the individuals tasked with carrying it out.
May 11, 2021
To get better cybersecurity results, companies have started creating dedicated departments or teams within the IT department that are responsible for cybersecurity.
Security
Network Management: The Second Step to Increasing Cybersecurity
After a thorough operations analysis, securing networks is the next step to addressing security gaps and lapses.
May 5, 2021
Network Management: The Second Step to Increasing Cybersecurity
Security
The First Step to Increasing Cybersecurity
There are a number of straightforward and understandable steps companies can take to protect their operations from cyberattacks. The first is to analyze operational vulnerabilities.
April 27, 2021
The First Step to Increasing Cybersecurity is to Analyze Operational Vulnerabilities.
Security
Preventing Internal Cyberattacks Could Save Companies Millions
Cyberattacks in the U.S. have the highest cost of any global nation, with an average cost of $8.64 million per occurrence for companies suffering an attack.
April 20, 2021
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IIoT
Two Key Areas of Cybersecurity Vulnerability in Manufacturing
By better understanding operational weaknesses, manufacturers can guard against future threats. Read about two key areas that require assessment.
April 13, 2021
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Take Five
Facilities Optimize Cost-Saving Sustainability With MnTAP | Digital Innovation Production Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
On this "Take Five" episode, editor Aaron Hand tackles how COVID-19 accelerated food and beverage producers digital transformation journeys. Melissa Griffen covers how an intern program's sustainable solutions drove cost saving for Minnesota companies.
April 9, 2021
Mn Tap Cost Saving Sustainability Covid
Security
Cybersecurity Risk 101: The Difference Between IT and OT Attacks
There are two categories of cyberattacks that increase cybersecurity risk and create a potential avenue for cybercriminals to access the organization.
April 6, 2021
The difference between IT and OT cybersecurity attacks.
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
Critical components need to be assessed to achieve a robust cybersecurity system.
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.
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