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ABB’s three-stage cybersecurity model ensures multiple layers of defence


to identify where your needs and highest pain areas lie. A collaborative-based approach is fundamentally more than just technology and needs the skillset – and real people – to analyse the data in a way that delivers a solid return on your investment. As with any new service


framework, customers naturally need reassurance about the level of proactivity and benefits that will be provided. Mills taking even the most modest, first step to a collaborative approach quickly come to understand the benefits obtained from the range of proactive alerts that are available, and the support from the best experts – wherever they are in the world – provided in real time. Another area of concern


that customers typically need reassurance on is cybersecurity.


When considering any new digital solution, ensure that decisions include how to address cybersecurity concerns, and that multiple layers of defence are implemented. Secondly, it is important to comprehend and respect different cultures and mindsets of your people. For example, the engineering mindset, where safety is critical, tends to seek a deterministic process and system. However, our experience suggests that cybersecurity requires much more dynamic processes that are continuously evolving. It is worth noting that ABB’s


three-stage cybersecurity model ensures multiple layers of defence by first establishing a foundational level of technical and organisational security controls to defend against the majority of


the generic threats, continuously managing and maintaining these controls and enhancing with more sophisticated controls. This involves implementing a strong collaborative operation of cybersecurity controls with managed security services.


Summing up A collaborative approach enables services to be delivered more effectively with continuous access to data and experts for proactive problem finding, better preventative maintenance that focuses on where the issues really are and increasing optimisation opportunities to make on-spec paper at lower cost with less raw materials.


In our highly-competitive


environment, especially in the current challenging times, all


pulp and paper producers have to consider how to continually improve performance, efficiency and returns on their operational expenditure. We also have to explore ways to unlock the potential of our processes and equipment to further improve productivity and quality. We can only achieve this by taking advantage of not just IoT technology, data, and analytics, but also – and perhaps more importantly – the continuous monitoring and expert support available by using remote collaboration services to ensure the opportunities made available through digitalisation are adapted for the complexities of the pulp and paper process. * John Schroeder is responsible for global ABB Ability applications for pulp and paper at ABB Inc.


July/August 2020


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