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    ISA through an era of dramatic change

    When I first became involved in the ISA (now International Society of Automation), it was already facing a major challenge. It's name was then the Instrumentation Society of America, but not only was it rapidly being pushed into international engagement, but the field of instrumentation was...
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    Control.com now encrypted

    Hi all, A quick note to let you know that we've converted Control.com to be served as an encrypted site. You shouldn't notice any difference -- any access to http://control.com will automatically get converted to https://control.com, as will any of our sub-communities. Please let us know...
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    Cybersecurity in the I&CS World

    A new article just published by David Greenfield in Automation World revisits the recent CERT warning about intrusions into automation systems in manufacturing: https://www.automationworld.com/article/industry-type/all/infiltration-us-control-systems Of particular interest to us at...
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    Plant Cyber Resiliency

    There's a new Draft for Comments available on the NIST website of a publication entitled Systems Security Engineering: Cyber Resiliency Considerations for the Engineering of Trustworthy Secure Systems: https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/sp/800-160/vol-2/draft You can download the PDF...
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    Is your plant controlled by Russia? Are you sure?

    A report issued by the US Department of Homeland Security - reported today in the New York Times here: https://nyti.ms/2Dv2gXY - states that there has been a years-long program of cyberattacks by Russian operatives that has extended into the control rooms of US utility plants. The report implies...
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    Spam-bot attacks on Control.com

    Hi all, Over the past few days we've seen an unprecedented level of attacks on Control.com by spam-bots. These are bots which repeatedly attempt to post irrelevant commercial messages to the site (known as comment spam), inviting you to increase the size of your body parts and MAKE MONEY...
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