June 2017

Cybersecurity is a concern for all businesses. Organizations from retail stores to financial institutions to healthcare providers must take measures to safeguard their computers and corporate IT networks. Chemical process industries (CPI) firms, indeed all companies that handle hazardous chemicals, must also ensure the integrity of their industrial control systems (ICSs). One article in this issue explains a matrix-based risk-assessment approach to determining how much security is enough. Another article presents prevention and mitigation strategies and offers recommendations for incorporating industrial cybersecurity into an existing process safety management (PSM) program.