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Contributing experts offer additional process automation and control industry knowledge in these blog posts. 

Off-site Insights

ControlGlobal.com's Off-site Insights Blog by Digital Engagement Manager Amanda Del Buono offers a break from our normal process automation control coverage to take a look at how the technology you use at work is utilized in so many other unique and innovative ways across other industries and throughout our everyday world.

Control Talk Blog

The Control Talk Blog provides guidance from a user's viewpoint on the design of automation systems, equipment, and piping for process control improvement. Details are offered on the selection and installation of PID controllers, control valves, variable speed drives, and measurements to maximize loop performance. The blogs are often more intensive and extensive and less vendor specific than a white paper. The goal is an advancement of the profession by sharing conceptual principle based knowledge.

Unfettered Blog

Control Systems Cybersecurity Expert, Joseph M. Weiss, is an international authority on cybersecurity, control systems and system security. Weiss weighs in on cybersecurity, science and technology, security emerging threats and more.

Controlling Interests Editors' Blog

Control's editors weigh in with timely insights and tidbits on goings-on in the process automation world, mostly news and technology but also interesting perspectives gleaned from our daily conversations with end users and the challenges of the craft.

The Great Kanduski: Best Practices in Industrial Networking

Ian Verhappen, a.k.a "The Great Kanduski," has 25+ years experience in instrumentation, controls and automation. He joins the editors of Control, Control Design and Industrial Networking to offer his perspectives and experiences on networks (including IP based ones), fieldbuses, wireless, and anything that has to do with field level devices (including process analysers). Much like our Industrial Networking magazine, the Great Kanduski serves the readers of Control and Control Design who are especially interested in fieldbuses, Ethernet, wireless, networking strategies and standards, and the cables, connectors, sniffers and other components that support them.
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Unfettered Blog

Ford recall on a control system cyber issue

Nov. 15, 2024
Ford will have to pay up to $165 million for failing to comply with federal recall requirements
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Unfettered Blog

Network security and engineering are still not on the same page, not even the same book

Oct. 29, 2024
There is a culture gap between cybersecurity managed by the CISO on the one hand and engineering and operations personnel responsible for OT on the other
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Unfettered Blog

Speaking at the American Petroleum Institute (API) Cybersecurity Conference

Oct. 22, 2024
The cybersecurity of process sensors affects both the engineers and network security personnel
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Unfettered Blog

OT/control system cybersecurity has changed and not for the better

Oct. 8, 2024
Over 50 years of control system cybersecurity perspectives
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Unfettered Blog

Sam Houston State University paper: “Who’s in charge of OT security”

Sept. 27, 2024
CISOs have been given the additional responsibility for cyber securing OT assets without a firm understanding of the technical constraints of OT systems
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Unfettered Blog

Government and industry are indifferent or unaware of critical infrastructure kinetic cyber incidents

Sept. 23, 2024
Kinetic damage can occur when control systems are impacted by remote connectivity
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Unfettered Blog

September HouSecCon conference

Sept. 17, 2024
Is the cure worse than the disease?
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Unfettered Blog

Government and industry organizations’ gaps in understanding control system cybersecurity

Sept. 5, 2024
U.S. government organizations have not identified control system incidents as being cyber-related
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Unfettered Blog

Critical infrastructure cybersecurity incident reporting is not working

Aug. 23, 2024
It’s difficult to deal with a risk if you’re not equipped to recognize it
Unfettered Blog

CrowdStrike, SolarWinds and Stuxnet demonstrated the cyber fragility of IT and OT systems

July 30, 2024
Three cyber incidents that affected multiple sectors and demonstrated cyber fragility
Unfettered Blog

Issues with Identifying Control System Cyber Incidents: MORS presentation

July 19, 2024
Government and industry organizations tend to under-report and under-share control system cyber incidents
Unfettered Blog

Webinar on securing critical infrastructure

June 21, 2024
The Tortora Brayda Institute held a roundtable event on June 18
Unfettered Blog

Identifying control system cyber incidents requires expertise not readily available and government reporting changes

June 12, 2024
Training to recognize control system incidents as being cyber-related is missing, allowing cyber incidents to continue to occur with potential or actual catastrophic consequences...
Unfettered Blog

Training for identifying control system incidents as being cyber-related

May 31, 2024
The peer-reviewed Micro Learning Module “Identifying Control System Cyber Incidents” was written in response to the lack of industry being able to identify control system incidents...
Unfettered Blog

Secure-by-design is not the same as safe-by-design – and people are being hurt

May 21, 2024
Cybersecurity is being addressed but without adequate safety engineering to account for unexpected system interactions