Process safety often focuses on lagging indicators, such as incident counts, product losses and unplanned shutdowns. They show the few cases that have already gone wrong but tend to be poor predictors of future risks.


In an industry transforming at unprecedented speed, with new feedstocks, automation, AI-driven operations and assets pushed harder than ever, this episode makes the case for a different strategy. By tracking the health of safety barriers, such as exceeded operating limits, bypassed safety systems, growing maintenance backlogs and rising alarm rates, they reveal weakening conditions before they turn into incidents.


Edgardo Moreno and Luciano Narcisi discuss how organizations can move from reactive to proactive, combining what happened yesterday, what is happening today and what might happen tomorrow into one view of risk.

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In this episode, ARC Advisory Group Vice President of Research Larry O'Brien sits down with Robert Jackson, Manager of Corporate Strategic Marketing at Moxa, to examine the rapidly changing landscape of operational technology (OT) cybersecurity and industrial network security. Their conversation centers on the European Union's Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) and what its connection to CE marking could mean for automation suppliers, OEMs, system integrators, and industrial end users worldwide. Jackson breaks down key expectations, including secure-by-design product development, the elimination of default usernames and passwords, software bills of materials (SBOMs), vulnerability management, and long-term security patch support.

The episode also explores how Moxa has expanded its cybersecurity strategy beyond individual networking products to an organization-wide approach. We discuss IEC 62443 certification, industrial firewalls, secure routers, deep packet inspection, microsegmentation, vulnerability management, and the challenge of protecting legacy protocols such as Modbus. We also consider the shortage of OT cybersecurity talent and how secure-by-design architectures, automation, AI-assisted operations, and continuous lifecycle governance are turning industrial cybersecurity from a discretionary investment into a business and regulatory imperative.

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In this episode, Larry O'Brien speaks with Schneider Electric cybersecurity leaders Zakarya Drias and Nasir Mundh about the critical role of cybersecurity in enabling successful industrial digital transformation initiatives. The conversation explores Schneider Electric’s approach to helping industrial organizations assess cyber risk, develop cybersecurity roadmaps, implement governance and security controls, and operate resilient OT environments through managed security services. Cybersecurity must be designed into digital transformation programs from the beginning rather than treated as an afterthought, particularly as cloud computing, IT/OT convergence, artificial intelligence, and connected operations expand the industrial attack surface. The discussion also addresses the challenges of protecting legacy industrial assets while modernizing operations, the importance of lifecycle management and compensating controls, and how AI can augment cybersecurity capabilities while still requiring human oversight and risk management.

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