Kitchener, Ontario – PEER Group®, the largest supplier of innovative factory automation software products for the semiconductor industry, is sharing its SEMI® Standards expertise and insight during the industry-led Global Cybersecurity Forum, happening at SEMICON West 2023.
Featuring talks by executives from leading chip makers, OEMs, and suppliers, the forum, Securing the Future for Semiconductor Manufacturing, will highlight the current state of industry-wide cybersecurity status, risks, and effects and detail the collaboration plans to protect the entire semiconductor supply chain.
“Amid recent high-profile cyberattacks on fabs, the semiconductor industry is banding together in defense of our highly complex and valuable global supply chain,” says Doug Suerich, PEER Group’s Director of Marketing, “the Global Cybersecurity Forum provides a prominent platform for industry leaders to discuss this topic. The caliber of speakers reflects the critical importance cybersecurity is to semiconductor manufacturing and we look forward to advancing our defensive strategy together as an industry.”
Suerich will be moderating the four-hour forum, which is scheduled to begin at 1:00 p.m. PDT on Wednesday, July 12.
The forum will kick-off with keynote addresses by Brent Conran, CVP, Chief Information Security Officer, Intel Corporation, and James Tu, PhD, Head of Corporate Information Security, TSMC. Additional presenters include executives from Applied Materials, ASML, Lam Research, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
Mike Kropp, PEER Group’s Co-Founder, CEO, and President, will also speak during the forum, sharing insight into the potential vulnerabilities associated with software that is used on semiconductor tools and in factories and the best practices companies follow to mitigate these issues. Kropp will provide an overview of SEMI® E187 and E188, the new Cybersecurity Standards published by the SEMI Fab & Equipment Information Security and the SEMI Fab & Equipment Computer Device Security Task Forces.
PEER Group has extensive experience helping OEMs and factories comply with the various SEMI Smart Manufacturing Standards, which include Cybersecurity Standards E187 and E188. In addition to participating in the Global Cybersecurity Forum, PEER Group will also be exhibiting during the show. To learn more about PEER Group products and services, stop by booth 451 during SEMICON West or visit: https://www.peergroup.com/news-events/events/semicon-west-2023
About PEER Group
PEER Group® is the largest supplier of innovative factory automation software products for the semiconductor industry. Since 1992, our solutions have helped the world’s most advanced OEMs and factories reduce time to market and lower costs by solving their equipment automation, data management, and process control problems. A multi-award winning company, PEER Group has been named a Best Workplace by Great Place to Work Canada 11 times, and most recently was one of six recipients of Intel’s 2022 EPIC Outstanding Supplier Award, which recognizes the absolute top performers in the Intel supply chain. Follow PEER Group on LinkedIn and Twitter at @PEERgroup_Inc..