Cybersecurity and Process Safety

A Brave New World of Interconnectivity

For many of us, interconnectivity, digitalization, automatic control systems and other technological advances permeate both our work and play. What we may overlook is that the same tools we use on a daily basis to “optimize” our private lives have also been adapted to optimize industrial processes of every stripe. Today almost all process plants have industrial control systems (ICS) embedded in the various levels of the company’s digitalization, from field devices (instruments, actuators, relays...) to the highest level of corporate servers.