Walt Boyes

  Yesterday afternoon I attended a panel on security populated by Eric Byres, Kevin Staggs, and Matt Franz. Byres, of course, is the founder and former Director of the BCIT Internet lab, who moved to Wurldtech Analytical (which is run by his wife Joann) last month so he could maintain a non-academic "arms length" relationship with BCIT and still have the run of the lab. … [Read more...] about The Need for Security in Process Automation

This morning we heard from Cheri McGuire, the Director, CIP Cybersecurity Program, National Cybersecurity Division, Department of Homeland Security, who is taking over responsibility for the Process Control Systems Forum in the future. She talked in great generality about the "overarching (insert noun here) framework" such as the "overarching risk management framework" and so … [Read more...] about More Better Process Security, We Hope!

If you've been following the discussions at PCSF (the Process Control Systems Forum) and in the ISA SP99 Standards Committee, you know the answer. If the answer doesn't scare you, you are seriously asleep. So, instead of attending the Sensors Show this week, and attending the SP100 meeting at the Sensors show, I decided to attend the security forum instead. Glad I did. The … [Read more...] about How Secure Is Your Control System?

I had a fine long weekend, and now I'm playing catchup. I have three podcasts to edit, one to do tomorrow, and one to do on Friday. That means that the Process Automation Radio Network will have a plethora of new podcasts in the next couple of weeks. I also have to finish the reporting from the MCAA meeting. Two of the talks especially were hits: Steve Sonnenberg, from … [Read more...] about Catching up with things…

I had done a huge data entry job earlier this afternoon, and my blog software ate it all. I will re-do it and re-post it tomorrow and Wednesday. Sorry...technical difficulties... Walt … [Read more...] about More MCAA blog later this week