Practical SCADA Security

Control System Security Threats, Security / Reliability Incidents, Useful Industrial Cyber Security Tips

submitted by: Eric Byres
on: Wed, 2012-12-05 16:03

Browsing this week’s industry newsletters, I noticed that Automation World had two related stories on new technologies:

submitted by: S. Claus
on: Tue, 2012-11-27 10:15

Editor's Note

submitted by: Joann Byres
on: Tue, 2012-11-20 11:29

Last year Eric’s holiday gift suggestion got his culinary juices flowing with the idea of a sous-vide oven; or for the true controls engineer, the plans to build your own. He was pleasantly surprised a few weeks later, when a sous-vide oven arrived under the tree.

submitted by: Eric Byres
on: Wed, 2012-11-14 10:45

“Lacking extravagant IT budgets, automation systems also require cyber security systems that just work, with a minimum of human intervention.”

submitted by: Eric Byres
on: Thu, 2012-11-08 10:28

Who is responsible for fixing the thousands (some say 100,000) of vulnerabilities that exist in PLCs, DCS, RTUs and other automation devices that are in use in facilities around the world?

On the one hand, we have the position of Dale Peterson at Digital Bond. Dale ardently argues for (and takes) aggressive measures to pressure ICS vendors into making their products more secure. Through their 2012 Project Basecamp and subsequent disclosures, Digital Bond publically released vulnerability details for a large number of controllers.