Meet Rob Turner as he presents ‘Industrial Control Systems - Safe and Secure?’ at the ICS Cyber Security conference, London on 27th April 2017.

Abstract

The recent edition of the IEC standard for Safety Instrumented Systems IEC 61511 2nd edition acknowledges the relationship between safety and security, and it now requires end users to develop and conduct a security risk assessment on SIS systems. The Health and Safety Executive operational guidance for Cyber Security on Industrial Automation and Control systems requires that duty holders demonstrate cyber security risks have been managed to as low as reasonably practicable (ALARP) or equivalent means in order to demonstrate compliance to relevant industry standards and regulations.

Each of these publications have increased the awareness of the growing need to understand and manage the relationship between security and safety within process industry sectors. Rob Turner will present an overview of cyber security in the OT domain, highlight where the requirements for industrial control systems differ from the IT world and outline a possible approach to achieving safety securely.

Speaker Biography: Rob Turner BSc (Hons) CEng MIET GICSP

Rob is the Team Lead for Yokogawa’s Advanced Solutions group in the UK and a practising Consultant in industrial cyber security. In a career spanning over 35 years Rob has been actively engaged as both an Engineer and a Technical Consultant in control, automation and industrial IT. He has been involved in industrial network security since before it became a major issue and has never really managed to escape. Bowing to the inevitable he became a qualified Global Industrial Cyber Security Professional (aka GICSP) at the beginning of 2017.