Process Safety and Security

July 20, 2012
UL’s Kevin Connelly, Business Development Manager, and Ken Modeste, Principal Engineer — cyber security, explain the connection between safety and security in the process industries.

In this video from The Automation Conference 2012, Connelly and Modeste discuss current issues affecting process safety and cyber security, including an overview of IEC 61511, which sets out practices in the engineering of systems to ensure the safety of an industrial process through the use of instrumentation. Together Connelly and Modeste explore the various mechanisms used in identifying and safeguarding against cyber security threats in industrial control equipment, as well as addressing common concerns, solutions and standard requirements between process safety and cyber security.