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[ INDUSTRIES ] Transformation Integration TechWatch facturers will implement human capital management systems to track employee training and screening and automatically control employee access to sensitive information. At the same time, experts say, many facilities haven’t automated the screening of new chemicals that go into products that may include multiple substances. CFATS, which lists 300 chemicals as potentially dangerous, will require facilities to automate the tracking of substances used in new formulations through tools such as PLM systems, predicts Ror y Granros, director of industr y product marketing at Infor. Some technology vendors have begun to tailor “We now have to set up a process for their products to address the increasing security regulations of chemical manufacturers. Data hisclassifying employtorian vendor OSIsoft, for example, has since 2001 ees and protecting been beefing up the security profile of its system, internal critical which pulls critical operational data from producinformation,” says tion, HVAC, and other plant sources. Tim Scott at Dow. While small and medium-sized chemical manufacturers will be required to significantly upgrade and automate many process to meet CFATS security requirements, many larger companies are already well on the road to compliance, having begun to focus on security well before Congress passed the CFATS requirements. Since 2002, for example, Dow Chemical has voluntarily conducted two complete security vulnerability managingautomation.com assessments using guidelines developed by the American RELATED ARTICLES: Locking onto Cyber-Security Chemistry Council trade group. www.managingautomation.com/cybersecurity Those efforts, says Tim Scott, Know Your Chemicals Regulations Dow’s chief security officer and (Know Your Chemicals) global director for emergency www.managingautomation.com/regulations services and security, have led Pharma’s Track & Trace Challenge Dow to focus on issues such as www.managingautomation.com/industries24 understanding and containing Marching Toward the RFID Business the effects that chemical spills Case and other events can have on www.managingautomation.com/sr5 communities that sur round Dow’s plants. They have also COMPANIES MENTIONED: led the company to put in place Industrial Defender www.managingautomation.com/defender a comprehensive security organization that includes a netInfor www.managingautomation.com/infor4 work of environmental health and safety managers at each loOSIsoft www.managingautomation.com/osisoft cation repor ting into Scott’s central function, which includes Industries maonline responsibility for emergency response and crisis management planning. Dow is now in the process of putting together CFATS security vulnerability assessments for its affected plants. Still, Scott says, complying with the CFATS regulations will require even Dow to think differently and invest in new technologies. For one thing, he says, CFATS will require Dow to make contingency plans in some cases for very small amounts of potentially dangerous chemicals. That will bring research and development facilities into Dow’s security assessment and planning much more than in the past. Also, Scott says, CFATS will require Dow to take an end-to-end view of security planning rather than focus mainly on potential impacts on communities surrounding its plants. That means, for example, that the company will have to think more than ever about issues such as sabotage and theft of critical information from inside the organization. “We now have to set up a process for classifying employees and protecting internal critical information,” Scott says. “We need to make sure people get all the information they need, but only the information they need.” At the same time, experts say, chemical manufacturers can expect the scope of CFATS to expand as DHS begins to evaluate manufacturers’ security vulnerability assessments. “There will be pressure to evolve toward a CFATS 2.0,” Deloitte’s Marriott says. “Right now, for example, CFATS mainly deals with the movement of materials within the plant’s fence line. It’s not unreasonable to expect that it could be extended to cover material movement outside the fence line, on rail cars, tanker trucks, ships, etc. That will have a much greater impact. The costs could be enormous.” Already, manufacturers such as Dow are considering that possibility and looking at technologies that could help them meet such expanded CFATS requirements. Dow, Scott says, is looking at RFID and other technologies that could help it track and trace chemical cylinders through the supply chain. It is also working with DHS and the U.S. Department of Transportation to define requirements for next-generation railcars that could remotely transmit information in the case of a derailment or other unexpected events. “We’re actively working with federal agencies on how we can track these materials from point A to point B,” Scott says. “There’s a good business case to be made for it in terms of inventory control. But there’s also a compelling security reason to do it.” s ma October 42 2008 Photo courtesy: Dow Chemical http://www.managingautomation.com/cybersecurity http://www.managingautomation.com/regulations http://www.managingautomation.com/industries24 http://www.managingautomation.com/sr5 http://www.managingautomation.com/defender http://www.managingautomation.com/infor4 http://www.managingautomation.com/osisoft

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