The Missouri Manufacturer's Complete Guide to OT Cybersecurity in 2025: Threat Landscape, Regulatory Requirements, and the Defense-in-Depth Architecture That Actually Works
Marcus Brown's comprehensive guide to industrial control system cybersecurity for Missouri manufacturers and utilities — written for operations directors and plant managers, not security specialists. The actual threat actors targeting Midwest industrial facilities, the regulatory requirements your facility faces, and the specific technical and operational controls that provide meaningful protection against real-world attacks on SCADA and process control systems.
Marcus Brown, Director OT Cybersecurity · 28 min read · White Paper
How to Migrate a Legacy SCADA System Without Stopping Production: StableCore's Zero-Downtime Migration Methodology
The methodology behind 34 zero-downtime SCADA migrations StableCore has completed for Missouri manufacturers — the specific planning, testing, and execution procedures that allow production to continue while critical control systems are replaced underneath it.
Rachel Park, VP Engineering · 18 min read
ISA-18.2 Alarm Management for Missouri Manufacturers: Why Your Operators Are Drowning in Alarms and How to Fix It
Alarm flooding is one of the most common — and most expensive — operational problems in manufacturing facilities. Dan Kowalski on the ISA-18.2 alarm rationalization process that StableCore uses to systematically reduce nuisance alarms and give operators the information they need to actually run the plant.
Dan Kowalski, CEO · 14 min read
AWIA 2018 Compliance for Missouri Water Systems: A Practical Engineering Guide to Risk Assessment and Cybersecurity Implementation
What Missouri water and wastewater utilities actually need to do to meet AWIA 2018 requirements — written by the engineers who have completed 12 AWIA compliance projects for Missouri utilities. Not legal interpretation, but engineering implementation.
Rachel Park · 16 min read · Regulatory Series
OT/IT Network Convergence: Designing the Boundary Between Your Business Network and Your Control Systems for Both Connectivity and Security
The architecture decisions, the firewall and DMZ design, and the operational procedures that allow your plant operators and IT team to share data across the OT/IT boundary without exposing your production systems to enterprise network threats.
Marcus Brown · 15 min readSafety Instrumented Systems (SIS) for Missouri Chemical and Food Processing Facilities: IEC 61511 Lifecycle and SIL Verification in Plain Language
What an SIS actually does, why it is separate from your basic process control system, how SIL targets are determined, and what the IEC 61511 safety lifecycle means for a Missouri chemical or food processing facility planning a new SIS or modernizing an existing one.
Rachel Park · 20 min read · Safety Series