Tag: process sensor

Copper Mountain Mining resumes operational production, following ransomware attack

Copper Mountain Mining resumes operational production, following ransomware attack

Copper Mountain Mining issued an operational update on the ransomware attack that affected IT systems at its Copper Mountain Mine and corporate office in late December. The company confirmed that production has resumed and that through this downtime, it has…

CISA Cybersecurity Advisory Committee meets, as OT, control systems security take a backseat

CISA Cybersecurity Advisory Committee meets, as OT, control systems security take a backseat

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) had its second Cybersecurity Advisory Committee meeting last week. The subcommittee chairs provided an update on the progress being made on key objectives outlined by the director during the Committee’s inaugural meeting last…

Deployment of smart instruments, process sensors prove unreliable in industrial environments

Deployment of smart instruments, process sensors not cyber secure in industrial environments

A cybersecurity expert emphasized that process sensors continuously need to be examined and improved, as cyber improvements cannot come at the expense of control system reliability or safety. Joe Weiss, Managing Partner at Applied Control Solutions Joe Weiss was reacting…

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Safeguarding electric infrastructure takes center stage at DOE’s inaugural SEAB meeting

The Department of Energy (DOE) held its inaugural Secretary of Energy Advisory Board (SEAB) meeting under new secretary Jennifer M. Granholm, at which cybersecurity experts presented a grim picture of the cybersecurity threats that lurk in the nation’s electric infrastructure.…

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New bill urges critical infrastructure firms to adopt various measures, in response to mounting cybersecurity incidents

A bipartisan legislation bill that would require critical infrastructure firms to disclose cybersecurity incidents to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) within 72 hours of discovery was released by the U.S. House Homeland Security Committee. The ‘Cyber Incident Reporting…