Sharul A. Rashid is PETRONAS Head of Technical Excellence and Custodian Engineer, Instrument and Control, Group Technical Solutions. He is the President of International Society of Automation (ISA), Malaysia Section and Advisory Board member for ISAGCA (Global Cyber Security Alliance). He had been recently re-elected as Co-Chair Certification Work Group, Open Process Automation Forum. He is Vice-Chair IOGP IASSC (Instrument Automation Standards Subcommittee), Vice-Chair Digital Connected Society (Malaysia). Additionally, he is voting member for NSC 19 / TC 15 for Smart Manufacturing and nominated expert in IEC Syc SM.