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Webinar Recording: Cybersecurity for Control Systems in Process Automation

 

This ISA co-hosted webinar on cybersecurity for industrial control systems was presented by ISA99 Committee Co-Chair Eric Cosman and Robert Thompson, plant security services officer at Siemens

 

Attacks to your production system may happen at any time and at any level — from outside as well as from inside. Which concepts and measures exist to protect your assets efficiently from software attacks? The ISA99 standards development committee brings together industrial cybersecurity experts from across the globe to develop the ISA-62443 (IEC 62443) standards on industrial automation and control systems security. In this ISA webinar, ISA99 Committee Co-Chair Eric Cosman and Robert Thompson, plant security services officer at Siemens. present the current threat landscape and key steps you can take to protect your critical assets in the production environment.

 

ISA offers standards-based industrial cybersecurity training, certificate programs, conformity assessment programs, and technical resources. Please visit the following ISA links for more information:

About the Presenter
Industrial security expert Eric Cosman has more than 35 years of experience in the development, delivery, management, and support of operations information technology solutions in the process industries. During his career his assignments and responsibilities have included process automation systems development, communications network design, functional and technical architecture design, and technology lifecycle management.  He recently retired as an operations IT consulting engineer with the Dow Chemical Company.

 

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About the Presenter
Robert Thompson serves as plant security services officer at Siemens, focusing on risk analysis, vulnerability handing and security training.

 

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