Abstract Society depends on the safe, reliable and secure operation of critical infrastructure including electrical power, water systems, natural gas, transportation fuels, healthcare, transportation, and buildings. The significant impact of any disruption demands comprehensive cybersecurity strategies that cover the systems and devices that automate and control this infrastructure. The OT domain (Purdue model level 0-3) is responsible for the control of real-world equipment and processes. The primary OT cybersecurity concerns are operational safety and reliability. The traditional IT cybersecurity concerns of confidentiality, integrity, and availability are of secondary importance. This talk will focus on how these differences influence how cybersecurity in the OT domain should be approached and how taking a process engineering centric approach to our thinking can positively impact both process safety and OT cybersecurity. Speaker: Greg Potter Society depends on the safe, reliable and secure operation of critical infrastructure including electrical power, water systems, natural gas, transportation fuels, healthcare, transportation, and buildings. The significant impact of any disruption demands comprehensive cybersecurity strategies that cover the systems and devices that automate and control this infrastructure. The OT domain (Purdue model level 0-3) is responsible for the control of real-world equipment and processes. The primary OT cybersecurity concerns are operational safety and reliability. The traditional IT cybersecurity concerns of confidentiality, integrity, and availability are of secondary importance. This talk will focus on how these differences influence how cybersecurity in the OT domain should be approached and how taking a process engineering centric approach to our thinking can positively impact both process safety and OT cybersecurity. Biography Greg is an Automation System Specialist with over 40 years of experience in a broad range of technical, project management and management roles in O&G upstream conventional, midstream, heavy oil and Petrochemical industries. He has a comprehensive high-level understanding of the operational, technological and organizational issues associated with the implementation and optimization of automation systems in the process industries. Most recently he has focused on the optimization of control room operator situational awareness leveraging Abnormal Situation Management consortium and ISA standards and the application of OT Cyber Security standards to ensure the operational safety and reliability of industrial facilities. Agenda » 11:50 MDT Webinar open » 12:00 MDT IEEE CS&I announcements » 12:10 MDT Presentation » 12:45 MDT Q&A » 13:00 MDT Webinar closes Cost $0 for IEEE Members, $20 for Non-Members

!Register Here Now! PDF Flyer: Dec 20 2024 SCADA Communication Protocols Abstract We are seeing different communication protocols used in different industries. With the advancement of Ethernet, many of the old protocols have disappeared and made room for a handful of protocols that are being used more commonly across multiple industries. On the other hand, with the recent expansion of the Internet in every sector of our society, we are seeing a wave of new protocols. While some of these new protocols are used for IoT applications, several others are being developed to support new industries such as renewable energy and distributed Energy Resources. In this presentation, we go over a few conventional protocols and open the floor for discussion on discussing new protocols that have been developed in recent years. Biography Matt Eskandar graduated from the University of Alberta (Edmonton Canada) in 1991 with a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering. Matt Eskandar started MR Control Systems International Inc. (www.mrcsi.com) in 1991 and has been the CEO of this company since then. Matt’s extensive experience in monitoring, control and automation projects worldwide has inspired him to develop a new generation of Monitoring and Control platform for SCADA, Data Analytics and Industrial IoT applications. This new platform allows users to build modern monitoring and control solutions that not only provide core SCADA functionalities, it also addresses many issues associated with Historians, Reporting, the convergence of SCADA, IoT and IT systems. As an experienced SCADA Engineer, Matt has been involved in execution of over 300 SCADA projects worldwide in multiple industries including Power Utilities, Renewable Energy, Water Resources and Oil and Gas. In 2012, Matt was instrumental in starting the Southern Alberta IEEE Control Systems and Instrumentation joint chapters. Matt has helped this chapter to grow its audience to over 1000 professionals. In 2017, Matt became one of the eight founders of the Alberta IoT Association. The Alberta IoT Association is one of the fastest-growing associations in Canada. Matt is an active member of APEGA, EGBC, and IEEE.

Abstract "When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it." Lord Kelvin. Synchronised measurement technology, more specifically the Phasor Measurement Unit (PMU), has yielded tremendous insight into power system phenomena over the last decades. The PMU, however, is an instrument that is not itself well understood by many who make use of its measurements. The time synchronised phasor, or synchrophasor, is a double-edged sword; on the one hand it has made it possible to apply classical methods of power system analysis to “real” data from real systems. On the other hand, the synchrophasor dispenses with all the nuance of the voltage or current waveform that was present in the sampled values from which it is estimated. What if we just keep all of the time synchronised sampled value (TSSV) data, and use that for our studies? Building machines which can do this is more than feasible. This talk will discuss approaches and challenges that engineers pursuing this strategy face, in particular the not so small matter of the many terabytes of data such a system will create, with “needle in a haystack” levels of useful information. The talk will describe an effort on the island of Ireland to build a national system to record TSSV and also synchronise using PTP in preference to GNSS and its “space-based” vulnerabilities. Speaker’s Bio David Laverty (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree from Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 2010. His thesis was on the use of synchrophasors for real-time control of generator sets via the Internet, investigating matters related to latency, packet loss and cyber security. He was appointed to a permanent post at the School of EEECS in Queen’s University Belfast in 2011, where he is presently a Reader (Full Professor, in North America). His work continues to address matters related to power system measurements, particularly time synchronisation, data systems, machine learning and cyber security. He is known as the founder of the open source project “OpenPMU”, which continues to develop open source hardware and software related to Phasor Measurement Units. His recent work is concerned with alternatives to “space-based” time signals, i.e. GNSS, in order to provide a resilient time transfer solution on which electrical utilities and other critical national infrastructure can depend.