Applied Control Solutions

Providing Strategic Guidance and Consulting to Optimize and Secure Control Systems

Applied Control Solutions personnel have provided leadership in the area of control systems and control system security for more than 30 years. Applied Control Solutions personnel are viewed as industry icons and have:

• Prepared the White Paper on Industrial Control System Security for the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Blue Ribbon Panel providing recommendations for the next Presidential Administration
• Provided more than 60 presentations and short courses on advanced control systems and diagnostics
• Provided more than 100 presentations, short courses, and book chapter on cyber security of industrial control systems and frequently quoted
• Provided IEEE Expert Now course on Cyber Security for Electric Substation Control and Diagnostic Systems and currently updating the course to include industrial control systems
• Compiled control system cyber incident database with more than 100 incidents identified
• Provided the most comprehensive analysis of control system cyber events with the Bellingham paper featured on the NIST website
• Provided testimony to three congressional subcommittees and input to various governmental agencies
• Supporting Nuclear Regulatory Commission on draft Regulatory Guide 5022 on cyber security for nuclear power plants
• Supporting all major control system cyber security standards organizations including IEEE, ISA, IEC, CIGRE, NERC CSSWG, and Smart Grid
• Performing numerous control system cyber security risk and vulnerability assessments
• Working with control system, control system security, and IT security suppliers
• Two patents on control and instrumentation systems