(161b) Automation Cybersecurity in the Chemical Industry: Connectivity’s Double-Edged Sword
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
2022
2022 Spring Meeting and 18th Global Congress on Process Safety Proceedings
Industry 4.0 Topical Conference
Cybersecurity in the Chemical Industry (invited session)
Wednesday, April 13, 2022 - 10:45am to 11:15am
The flip side to these efforts and strategies has also brought untraditional risk to these systems. Risks with low likelihood and questionably low to mid impact are no longer the case as integrated control and safety critical systems have indirect enterprise network connection into one digital ecosystem vastly connected to the public internet.
This is the side of the blade that can and has cut deep. Cyber actors using flaws in software lack of security controls and public connectivity to enterprise IT systems have and will continue to leverage victimsâ networks and systems for nefarious means whether that is ransomware, tampering and manipulation or denial of service and view.
This talk will cover strategies, standards, and good engineering practice that asset owner operators, integrators and vendor delivery service groups should be doing. Also, a walk through recent cyber intrusions and impacts analysis.