The ISA Manufacturing and Control Systems Security standards committee has released the first and second parts of the ISA-99 series of standards for committee review and voting Note: Readers of the Editor’s free email newsletter will have read this news when it was announced. ‘Our purpose is to establish standards that will define procedures for implementing electronically secure manufacturing and control systems and security practices and assessing electronic security performance,’ said ISA-SP99 chairman Bryan Singer of Rockwell Automation. The ISA-SP99 committee addresses industrial automation and control systems whose compromise could result in any or all of the following: impact on national security, endangerment of the public or employees, loss of proprietary or confidential information, violation of regulatory requirements, and economic loss.