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PO;;of these areas, it’s important each to emphasize the need for a critical preliminary — developing a security philosophy that in turn fosters a security culture. Without such a philosophy and ongoing efforts towards creating and maintaining a strong security culture, momentum will be lost. A security philosophy will differ for each company, industry and region but will share some common elements. It will state that security is: • important; • ongoing; • everyone’s concern; and • a balancing act. With such a security philosophy spelled out, a company is poised to effectively address the people, process and technology issues. Always remember that people pose the biggest risk. So, extensive and ongoing effort is needed to educate, empower and enable all staff to recognize situations and events that can impact cyber-security and to have them respond appropriately. Provide general awareness training for all staff as well as more sophisticated training commensurate with a person’s level of access to critical assets. Effective processes, of course, are crucial, too. Indeed, a plant’s standards, guidelines, procedures and best practices offer some of the most obvious indicators of the success or failure of a security effort. The specific security processes established will most likely have the biggest impact on the day-to-day operations and workflow of the facility. So, let’s look at some of the more important and most helpful ones. Change management. A proper change-management program is the single most often neglected yet potentially the most significant process to establish and maintain a more secure environment. Most chemical facilities have solid, established and well followed change-management programs but they usually only are deployed within the business enviwww.chemicalprocessing.com ronment or within certain aspects patching within or systems on the plant floor. A a process control proper industrial-security program environment. will require the implementation of Incident handling. a very solid and closely followed The true measure of your change-management program for security readiness is going to all assets in a plant. be how well you handle an incident when it happens — an incident will Patch management. No program would be complete without a patch occur at some point regardless of management process. The challenge how well you prepare or how hard is in creating a program that ad- you try to prevent it. What counts is CONVEYOR putnam limitations to how much damage you can avoid by dresses the inherent 6_07.qxd 6/12/2007 10:38 AM Page 1 Sanitary Hygienic Dust-Free The best solution for moving bulk materials is with PIAB Vacuum Conveying. Whether you're feeding material to a form, fill, seal machine or a volumetric feeder or feeding material to a mixer or a blender, PIAB's C-Series vacuum conveying systems make it all happen. Sanitary - 3-A & USDA accepted. Hygienic - quick-change filters prevent cross-contamination of ingredients. Dust-Free - vacuum technology by compressed air prevents product blow-by or leakage. For more information, call (800) 321-7422/(781) 337-7309 or e-mail us at info@piab.com www.piab.com October 2007 • 29 http://www.piab.com http://www.piab.com http://www.chemicalprocessing.com

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Chemical Processing - October 2007

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