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SCADA Security - solutions
for compliance!
L. Porter & Associates has
formed an alliance with Berkana
Resources to develop solutions to provide compliant
views of SCADA data to enterprise management and knowledge
workers.
The SCADA Challenge:
In the
current regulatory and legal environments, pipeline operators are
confronted with numerous compliance issues and risks. Understanding
these challenges, we've put together a list of some of the
compliance issues operators need to consider:
- Operators' management and staff may be held
personally responsible for incidents and the results of
incidents under pipeline safety regulations.
- Inadequate training, and sub par systems, can
provide a springboard for prosecutors to seek criminal, as well as
civil, remedies against operators, including individuals within the
organization.
- Environmental regulations are always lurking as a
possible basis for criminal and civil actions by the government.
SCADA systems can demonstrate either good practices and operations,
or negligence leading to penalties or prosecution.
- Plaintiff lawyers will use findings of
noncompliance to convince judges and juries that an operator is
circumventing the rules, allowing dangerous conditions to exist, and
endangering the public in efforts to obtain judgments against
operators.
- Traditional audits and auditing procedures to
check for compliance too often create more problems than they solve.
- Records must be created and maintained to
demonstrate compliance.
- Boards will demand compliance to protect
employees, themselves, the assets of the company, and the interests
of shareholders.
- Security compliant views of critical information are needed by
managers to plan and align corporate strategies.
SCADA Solutions by SCADA Experts!
BRC has
exceptional staff with years of experience in upgrading, migrating,
relocating, auditing and securing SCADA systems. Whatever the SCADA
environment, BRC is uniquely positioned to meet the challenges.
We not only help identify areas of concern with
compliance, we provide clients with our proprietary checklists to ensure
that regulatory requirements are met or exceeded:
- NERC (North American Electric Reliability Counsel)
- AGA (American Gas Association)
- OPS (Office of Pipeline Safety)
- CIDX (Chemical Industry Data Exchange)
- EPA (Environmental Protection Agency)
- Sarbanes-Oxley
At LPA and BRC,
our Professionals are committed to
providing the highest standard of service to assist in
leveraging technology investments, meeting Compliance
requirements, and optimizing business processes.
 TeamStandardTM Connect
- Security compliant Dashboard views of near real
time SCADA information.
SCADA
Security
- SCADA Integration Services, SCADA Support Services, SCADA
System Audit, Dashboard Applications, Solution
Integration.
Need Help Now? call (USA) 281.493.9573
For information, contact:
maedmiston@lpaengineering.com
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