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Analysis from Joe Weiss and ACS, organized around the questions operators, insurers, and engineers bring to us.
Not every control system event involving computers is a cyber incident. Telling the difference decides who investigates, and what evidence is kept.
Not every control system event involving computers, controllers, or digital instruments is a network cybersecurity incident. Understanding the difference helps organizations investigate the right causes and involve the right teams.
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Many people feel an incident must be malicious to count as a cyber incident. As Colonel Herman Haupt understood on the railroads of the Civil War, it isn't the intention that matters; it's the outcome.
Read articleWhen an event looks like an equipment failure or a network problem, the automation cause behind it is rarely examined.
A replacement network switch installed with Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol disabled created a network loop and data storm that closed the turbine control valves at 100% power, scramming Hatch Unit 1 with no cyberattack involved.
Read articleWhat automation incidents looked like at real facilities, and what finding them changed.
How a utility's plant shutdown exposed the engineering-based, non-IP control-system failures that conventional cybersecurity programs overlook.
How inoperable and uncalibrated sensors, improperly ranged instruments and controller tuning errors added up to a 3% production opportunity at a $1B industrial facility.
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Insight drawn from Joe Weiss's long-term tracking of control system incidents: patterns, consequences, and lessons for critical infrastructure organizations.
Find the automation incidents hiding inside equipment failures, on its own or as the first step of the Annual Service.
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