Rob Turner

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Rob Turner has 30+ years experience in several industries: oil & gas, conventional power, nuclear, petrochemicals and pharmaceuticals industries in the areas of control, automation & information technology, quality assurance, alarm management/human factors and industrial cybersecurity. Rob has worked with several major global companies during this time, including BP, Shell, BG Group, Centrica Energy, National Grid, ICI, Pfizer, Schering Plough, IBM and Pirelli.

We are proud to say that Rob is now a Senior Consultant for Yokogawa that specializes in alarm management and industrial cybersecurity. He has worked with several clients in this area, many of which are a part of the UK Critical National Infrastructure.

Articles by Rob
Why Technology Alone Will Not Solve Industrial Cyber Security Threats
Why Technology Alone Will Not Solve Industrial Cyber Security Threats

Know your adversary – this is surely one of the essential steps in any program to improve security? If you don’t understand the nature of the threat, whether it is a human threat such as warfare or, more topically, a natural threat such as the novel coronavirus, then you are not going to understand how to protect yourself adequately.

Why Manage Alarms?
Why Manage Alarms?

Alarm management has increasingly become a hot topic over recent years, not least because of a number of high-profile accidents where alarms have been implicated. In this article Rob Turner evaluates the benefits of implementing and maintaining an effective alarm management program.

Industrial Cyber Security – Securing Operational Technology 101
Industrial Cyber Security – Securing Operational Technology 101

In the modern connected enterprise where your industrial systems are networked to your business systems (which they almost certainly are) and your business systems are Internet facing (again very likely) then your business systems should be regarded as a potential source of threat to the integrity, safety and security of your control systems. That threat should be properly managed.