Advenica Insight - How and why to use the IEC 62443 standard to secure your OT environment

The IEC 62443 standard is an international series of standards that address cybersecurity for operational technology in automation and control systems. The purpose of the standard is to improve the integrity, availability and confidentiality of the components. The standard also sets out criteria that can guide you when implementing secure systems. This is a standard you should know if you work with security in ICS systems.

Join our digital event Advenica Insight and hear more about the standard, what it contains, how it effects the energy sector and how you should work with it.

Agenda for the day

9.00 Mikael Holmgren, Sales, Advenica

"To secure our society, digital security must be improved in critical infrastructure – welcome to today!"

09.15 Hervé Bodinier, Consultant expert, eXcelsior Safety

"Detailed view of the standard IEC 62443 generalities, certification, scope and responsibilities"

10.00 Short break

10.10 Ludwig Seitz, OT security expert, Defensify

“Implementing the NIS directive in the Swedish Energy sector”

10.55 Short break

11.05 Erik Orrsjö, Senior Security Consultant, Bodforss Consulting

"IEC 62443 – Complying and utilising the standards in critical infrastructure "

11.50 Mikael Holmgren, Sales, Advenica

"Summary of today – what can we learn?"

The event will be in English.

Information about the speakers

Hervé Bodinier, Consultant expert eXcelsior Safety

Hervé has a solid experience of more than 38 years in process and safety automation & electrical systems as well as gas analyser in industry sectors as oil & gas, energy, nuclear, chemical, continuous processing, batch and discreate manufacturing. He is also a specialist in functional safety management, cybersecurity OT/IACS activities as well as data industrialisation and management.

Ludwig Seitz, OT security expert at Defensify

Ludwig is an OT security specialist with a focus on security standardisation, specifically in the areas of OT security, IoT security, and Identity and Access Management. Ludwig has previous experience as researcher and developer, and regularly acts as guest lecturer for university courses and speaker at industrial conferences. Ludwig has worked with IT security for 20 years and with OT security for 7 years. Ludwig is also an author of several technical security standards at the IETF.

Erik Orrsjö, Senior Security Consultant at Bodforss Consulting

Erik has extensive experience from working with security within critical infrastructure and industrial control systems, mainly from the supplier side. There, it has been about everything from holding risk analyses and workshops, to the implementation of security solutions in OT systems. In recent years, he has worked as a security consultant at Bodforss Consulting, and broadened his scope through work primarily with security standards and management systems. He is CISSP and certified ISO/IEC 27001 lead implementor.