The International Semiconductor Alliance (ISA) will be presenting state-of-the-art solutions for manufacturing and process optimisation in the semiconductor industry at this year's PCIM 2024 in Nuremberg.

An appeals panel formed by Underwriters Laboratories has ruled in favour of the International Society of Automation (ISA) in an appeal against UL 2900-2-2, Standard for Software Cyber security for Network-Connectable Devices, Part 2-2: Particular Requirements for Industrial Control Systems. UL was seeking approval of the document as an American National Standard, but ISA’s successful appeal prevents that status at this time.

Nonprofit public health and patient safety organisation, The Medical Device Innovation, Safety, and Security Consortium (MDISS), has announced it is developing a set of recommended practises and profiles for securing medical systems based on the normative requirements in the widely used ISA/IEC 62443 series of standards for industrial automation and control systems cyber security.

The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) has confirmed it will integrate the widely used ISA/IEC 62443 series of standards into its forthcoming Common Regulatory Framework on Cyber security (CRF). The CRF will serve as an official UN policy position statement for Europe.

  Industrial cyber security officials from government and private industry gathered in Houston on Monday 29th October to discuss new ways of countering the rising threats of cyber attack in the energy sector.