Abstract
On Wednesday, 16th May, Central North-West Local Section hosted a lecture on Cybersecurity. The lecture was presented by Jeff Melrose, Principal Technology Strategist for Cybersecurity at Yokogawa USA. Prior to his assignment with Yokogawa, Mr Melrose was Principal Security Engineer at Lockheed-Martin and at Raytheon designing secure systems for the US military. In those roles, he led Security Designers creating secure wireless technologies, developing secure networks and cryptographic infrastructures for the most paranoid of customers. Mr Melrose has over 20 years of experience in OT security.He has an MS in Mathematics from the University of Oklahoma and holds both the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and Information Systems Security Engineering Professional (ISSEP) certifications from ISC(2). He is also a member of ISA99, ISA100as and ISC(2).
A total of 32 people attended Yokogawa UK (Companion Company) offices in Runcorn, the second-highest attendance for the academic year.
Tom S Nobes of the local section said ‘Thanks to Jeff and to Yokogawa UK for this interesting and entertaining lecture. It’s clear cybersecurity is an emerging issue in C&I engineering and can only increase in scope as web based technologies are further developed’.
On 18th May, Keith Butler of Alpha Moisture Systems gave a lecture to Central North-West members on moisture measurement.
Tom Nobes (Programme Sec) said, I think moisture measurement is one of the most misunderstood and often misused measurements in the industry. There seems to be a real gap in the understanding of many engineers about for example Relative Humidity, so what’s it relative to? Keith gave an excellent lecture that pointed-out many of the pitfalls of this type of measurement. It was well presented and well received. That completes Central North-West technical lectures for this academic year. We restart the technical lectures on 20th September with SIL Validation of failure Rates by Harvey Dearden of Time-Domain Solutions Ltd.
