Bowtie Visualization for Open PHA
Bowtie Visualization for Open PHA Kenexis is proud to announce a new premium feature in [...]
March 2019
The Case for Scenario Coverage for Gas Detector Placement
The Case for Scenario Coverage for Gas Detector Placement In the beginning, gas detector placement [...]
January 2019
Security PHA Review Example – Video from Kaspersky Industrial Cybersecurity 2018
Kaspersky has just published the videos from the Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity 2018 conference. This video [...]
December 2018
SIL Verification Training – Additional Data
This post contains additional information related to the Kenexis Safety Integrity Level Verification training courses. [...]
November 2018
Comparison of Voting Arrangements in SIS
While I'm certain that all of you have all of the strengths and limitations of [...]
October 2018
Security PHA Review Video – Kaspersky ICS Conference
On 20 Sep 2018, Kenexis CEO Ed Marszal presented at the 2018 Kaspersky Industrial Cyber-Security [...]
August 2018
What’s Your Backup and Recovery Strategy?
While reading the Wired article, titled The Untold Story of NotPetya, the Most Devastating Cyberattack [...]
July 2018
Systematic Safety Integrity; what you need to know.
There's a lot of confusion about Systematic Safety Integrity in new IEC61511. We are starting to [...]
June 2018
Top 10 SIEM Solution Providers
We are please to announce that Kenexis was chosen by Enterprise Security as one of [...]
Consequence and Cybersecurity
Industrial Control Systems or Operational Technology cybersecurity risk calculations are typically based on threat, vulnerability, [...]
April 2018
Setting up Security PHA Review (SPR) in Open PHA
Kenexis Open PHA integrated software for performing process hazards analysis (PHA) such as HAZOP and [...]
Reducing Attack Surfaces
Reducing the Attack Surface with Group Policy You should be constantly working to reduce your [...]
February 2018
Security PHA Review (SPR) in Open PHA
Open PHA has been upgraded to include the ability to perform a Security PHA Review [...]
January 2018
When all your eggs are in the BPCS and SIS protection layers
During Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA) of high hazard scenarios, we often rely on a [...]
December 2017
Open PHA Premium Custom Report Generator Available
The Open PHA Development team is proud to announce the release of a new feature [...]
October 2017
Derivation of PFD Equations for SIL Verification
Have you ever wondered where the equations that are used to calculate probability of failure [...]
August 2017
Control System SIEM Implementation
Network appliances like firewalls and switches, have software (commonly referred to as firmware) on them [...]
SIS Testing Optimization
Testing of the safety instrumented system (SIS) is a critical lifecycle task that ensures the [...]
How do I decide on the need for toxic gas detection?
We were recently asked about placing Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) gas detectors in an area of [...]
July 2017
Do you really know the worst case for atmospheric dispersion of a gas release?
Dispersion of an elevated release Often atmospheric dispersion models are needed to determine [...]
Reducing Turnaround Time and Cost
In todays oil and chemicals market, time and budgets are strained to remain operational [...]
May 2017
New Video: FCC Unit Explosion
New US CSB video summarizing the events that led to the FCC unit explosion. New [...]
April 2017
1947 Texas City industrial accident
Today, we remember the 1947 Texas City industrial accident. The picture in our office, reminds [...]
December 2016
Design of SIS Bypasses
The mechanism for the bypass needs to meet the requirements of the IEC 61511 (ISA [...]
Security PHA Review (SPR) and Security Levels
After reading an ISA article related to the application of Security PHA Review (SPR) for [...]