I’ve really been enjoying PJ Coyle’s Chemical Facility Security News blog the last few months. An entry this week on the Chemical Security Board’s Inherently Safer Technology tied into one of my entries earlier this week on MTTR. Here are the key paragraphs to the analogy:
First off, inherently safer technology (IST) has always been a [...]

Earlier in the week I came across a very interesting article regarding control systems that we normally do not discuss but has a similar issue that we experience in other control system implementations.
The FAA recently published a “special conditions” document within the Federal Register (FR DOC 2010-661) discussing concerns over Boeing’s 747-8/-8F models network architecture. [...]

We have another control system incident in the news that will surely fill up slidedecks for the next decade.
News became public yesterday of an arrest of security guard involved in a compromise of the HVAC system, and likely the rest of the hospital network,  at the Carrel Clinic in Dallas, Texas.  Thankfully nothing was done [...]

Exida announced today that it has merged with Byres Security Research to “form the world’s first company offering functional safety and security certification and consultation”. Since Exida is much larger it appears to be more of an acquisition than merger. And entering soap opera territory, it also reunites to some degree Byres with his [...]