Submitted by Eric Byres on Thu, 2011-07-07 14:30
This article continues our review of Siemens’ announcements and posture regarding cyber security as reflected at their Automation Summit last week. Part 1 of this post was published yesterday.
New Siemens Products for Enhanced Cyber Security
Christoph Lehmann, from Siemens Germany, focused on many of the new products and services that Siemens is currently developing (or has recently released) to improve control system security. A few noteworthy ones are mentioned here.
Submitted by Eric Byres on Wed, 2011-07-06 12:44
The Siemens Automation Summit was held last week and both Joel Langill and I attended it, presented at it, and engaged in social media commentary regarding it. This article will summarize our opinion of Siemens’ announcements and posture regarding cyber security as we reflected on the conference. We assign grades to various aspects of Siemens’ cyber security measures or policies, and we will sum it up with a final grade at the end of Part 2.
Submitted by Joel Langill on Mon, 2011-05-02 21:00
Nowadays Stuxnet has become a household term the second anyone talks about cyber security for industrial control systems (ICS). This sophisticated piece of malware first identified in 2010, showed just how powerful an ICS compromise could be in terms of both the impact to manufacturing operations and the possibility of mechanical damage. Was this an isolated attack, unlikely to occur again, or the beginning of a new era in ICS security issues?
