Established in 1993, PAS is a leading provider of innovative software and professional services that improve Human Reliability in industrial facilities and enhance safety, compliance, and profitability. Our extensive customer list includes the leading companies in the power and process industries worldwide.
In a world where bad actors are infiltrating U.S. critical infrastructure and industrial control systems, it’s time for manufacturers to take action to combat cyberattacks.
The latest update on the Triton/Trisis malware that attacked a critical oil and gas facility’s safety system is that the malware is publicly available on the Internet.
2017 was a year in which industry seemed to become more focused on cybersecurity. But with so much activity in this sector, making sense of it all is tough. Here are some insights...
Doomsday scenarios might sound like hype, but the increasing number of cybersecurity incidents we’ve seen in electric, water, nuclear and other critical facilities are trials ...
Version 8.3 of PlantState Suite from PAS features Alarm Mechanic, which helps improve process plant safety and console operator performance, minimizing nuisance alarms through...
The ransomware attack that swept the world last week left most manufacturers unscathed, but exposed the critical vulnerabilities that many have not even begun to address.
Cybersecurity alliances are a key part of protecting the industrial sector from an increasingly coordinated and sophisticated attack base. How much can—or should—automation vendors...
With growing revelations of hacking conducted on manufacturers of all sizes, it’s no longer a question of whether ICS cybersecurity specialists are needed. The question is just...
Attacks on industrial control systems are accelerating, threatening grave fallout. Because sorting through the flood of ICS cybersecurity products and services can be daunting...
With a focus on protecting the critical infrastructure industries of utilities and oil and gas, the partnership combines control system knowledge and analytics with deep domain...
External funding is boosting the industrial control system cybersecurity market, as evidenced by Tinicum’s $40 million growth investment in PAS, a supplier of cybersecurity, safety...
PAS rolls out IPL Assurance software with real-time predictive analytics that monitor the health and availability of Independent Protection Layers which enable operators to ascertain...
Turnarounds are not an everyday occurrence for continuous processes. To compensate for the lack of practice operators get, more plants are deploying software that can reduce the...
As the plant floor becomes more connected, so do abnormal situations—which can originate from anywhere in the enterprise. To help operators navigate this new universe of anomalies...
Plants running continuous processes needn't practice voodoo economics to get good estimates and generate realistic budgets for software projects. Vendors offer advice on taking...
Process safety incidents have been on a steady decline for two decades, but that seems to be leveling off as the human element becomes a bigger part of the equation. Process continuity...
Despite plenty of evidence showing that simpler, less graphic-heavy HMIs are safer and more effective, there remains quite a bit of support for the colorful, video game approach...
PlantState Suite 7.3 includes inBound Analytics, a robust boundary management solution to improve situation awareness in the control room and prevent industrial accidents.
Getting your process alarms under control requires more than knocking down the bad actors. You need to document and rationalize—take the time needed to keep unwanted alarms from...
PAS, a human reliability software solutions provider to the power and process industries worldwide, announced the release of the latest Integrity product release that enhanced...
Southern Company’s approach to NERC CIP compliance holds lessons for the manufacturing and processing industries as cybersecurity becomes a business imperative.