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UPDATE: Microsoft DCOM Hardening Patches – How This Can Affect Your AVEVA Software & What You Need to Know

March 28, 2022

In June 2021, Microsoft delivered a security update that included the ability to add a registry key that enables the hardening of DCOM as provided in KB5004442. The key supports setting the key value to 1 (enable). While Microsoft has delayed the rollout of the next phase of these changes, AVEVA continues to monitor Microsoft's activities with their DCOM hardening plan. The monitoring activities Include evaluating the potential impact on AVEVA’s software portfolio. Read on to see how this could affect your software....

How to achieve operational agility without disrupting product quality and plant productivity

Today’s landscape requires leveraging digital technologies to optimize the supply chain for responsiveness and manufacturing plants for efficiency and adaptability to a more dynamic environment. Advanced digital production planning, scheduling, and execution capabilities allow manufacturers to align operational planning with the realities of the plant floor....

Stop the Insanity–The Cybersecurity Industry Must Do Better (Virsec Blog)

March 23, 2022

The current state of the cybersecurity industry is insane and the only way to change it is to take a completely different approach to the challenge. Virsec’s Deterministic Protection Platform (DPP) completely disrupts conventional approaches by fully mapping and understanding what your software is predetermined to do (the developer’s intent), and immediately stopping what it is not. Learn more about this security approach....

Federal funding for sustainable and resilient infrastructure

March 14, 2022

Having a clear idea of where to prioritize your funding applications and the potential return on investment will go a long way to bring about success. Let’s review some of the bill’s highlights and some use cases to consider....

AVEVA Receives ANSSI Cybersecurity Certification for AVEVA System Platform & AVEVA Historian Software

March 10, 2022

AVEVA have received the first-level information technology security assessment and certification granted by the French National Cybersecurity Agency, ANSSI, for AVEVA System Platform and AVEVA Historian software. As the industry leader in industrial software for HMI/SCADA, AVEVA has a firm commitment to quality and best practices that ensure our software solutions meet the expectations and requirements of our customers....

Microsoft DCOM Hardening Patches – How This Can Affect Your AVEVA Software & What You Need to Know

March 7, 2022

AVEVA is actively researching the impacts of upcoming patches on its products. They are aware of Microsoft’s latest timeline and we expect to get an update from them in the near future. Note that Microsoft pushed the timeline and the next patch is not expected until June. The latest information can be found in Tech Alert TA32813. ...

The Meaningful Digital Twin

Various parties and industry verticals are seeking to capture and define how the digital twin applies to their sphere and what value it implies for EPCs and owner operators. Long-term capital projects are seeing the value of digital twin technology increase as the world transitions to more sustainable practices. As a world leader in industrial digital transformation, we at AVEVA are committed to forming trusted partnerships with customers to deliver meaningful digital twin solutions....

Addressing the infamy of capital project delays

February 25, 2022

Organizing, tracking, and maintaining the data that such a workforce needs to execute a capital project can be a daunting, full-time task that requires whole teams to manage it. The scale and magnitude of such projects pose significant challenges. AVEVA™ Enterprise Resource Management seeks to address these challenges by supporting the entire capital project construction design and delivery process....

Five challenges renewables must overcome to surpass fossil fuels

February 23, 2022

Renewable energy is the fastest-growing energy source in the United States, but that growth presents new challenges. While technological advances have led to efficiency and costs gains to enable electricity generation from renewable sources, the renewable energy field must overcome five key challenges before it can replace fossil fuels. Learn more about them in this blog....

AVEVA Data Hub in the power generation industry: Orchestrating assets to deliver an essential service

February 21, 2022

As more power generation companies seek to take advantage of new technologies like advanced data analytics and remote monitoring, they are increasingly exploring cloud-based data management platforms. AVEVA’s Lora O’Haver recently sat down with AVEVA Energy Industry Principals, David Thomason and William McEvoy, to discuss how this is manifesting in the industry....