IEC 62443 Standards Cybersecurity of Automation and Control Systems

Biography:

After a career in the Royal Air Force as an aircraft engineer Nick has spent the past 20+ years working across all industrial verticals, initially as a system integrator and latterly as an Industrial Cyber Security specialist. He is a Chartered Engineer and a Certified IEC 62443 Expert who currently holds the role of OT Cyber Security Technical Authority for ODE Asset Management, where he is responsible for the safe and secure operation of a portfolio of hydrocarbon production facilities on the UK Continental Shelf. Away from industry Nick has provided Cyber Security consultancy to the NHS as part of the CORS programme, the MOD within the CVI programme, and as a subject matter expert to the Dstl Autonomous Resilient Cyber Defence (ARCD) project, culminating in presenting a paper to NATO on the subject of Artificial Intelligence Applied to Cyber Modelling.

Description:

When designing an industrial control system, the normal design life can be measured in decades – the Thames Tideway Tunnel project has a design life of 120 years. There is a large estate of legacy systems that expose the UK’s Critical National Infrastructure to the risk of disruption through offensive Cyber activities conducted by a range of threat actors. This presentation will introduce the IEC 62443 standard to the audience, with the objective of increasing their knowledge of the multi-layered approach necessary to secure systems that pre-date ‘Cyber Security’. The standard has such breadth that Nick will concentrate on the foundations; how to remotely compile an asset register that allows an organisation to quantify its risk exposure, how to segregate a network in order to limit unauthorised network traversal, what is the difference between segmentation and segregation – and why it is important, the impact to risk presented by the fallacy of an air gapped network, and why VLANs are not a security control (contrary to what IT tell you). Throughout the presentation there will be real world examples and war stories to provide some light relief to what is a serious subject – the names will be changed to protect the guilty.

Timings

19:00 arrival   (light refreshments)
19:30 lecture commences
20:30 lecture finishes (optional Q&A afterwards)
21:00 event closes

Location

University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield
A161, Lindop Building, College Lane Campus, University of Hertfordshire, AL10 9AB

Cost

Free for members and non-members

Last updated 7th March, 2025 at 3:57pm