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Article from: Automation.com, November 2011

Automation.com ran two side-by-side articles in its Programmable Automation Controllers (PAC) Update eNewsletter:

Really, Really, Really Cyber Secure

Automation & Control Getting iPhone App Enabled

The contrast between these two articles beautifully captures an issue the automation industry must resolve in the next few years.

Eric Byres questions "must we sacrifice these gains in efficiency that modern technologies offer if we want our utilities and factories to be secure?"

Article from: Automation.com, August 2011

Cyber Security is a hot topic that has become more intense since the notoriety of the Stuxnet virus.

In this article, Bill Lydon, Editor at Automation.com, interviews Eric Byres to gain a greater understanding of the challenges and solutions for industrial cyber security.

Stuxnet has clearly been a wakeup call for the industry and companies need to have cyber security plans if they want to protect their operations.

Article from: Automation.com, August 2011

The theory behind the air gap is that in a well-designed system, there is a physical gap preventing any communication between the control network and the business network.

In this article, Eric Byres talks about a fairy tale - but it's not the kind that has princes or frogs in it.

It is the myth of the “air gap” between control systems and the rest of the world. Believing in it leads to a false sense of complacency by both end users and vendors, making it a very dangerous fairy tale indeed.

Podcast from: Digitalbond.com, July 2011

Interview 1: Dale Peterson of DigitalBond.com talks with Eric Byres of Byres Security about the Siemens Automation Summit and the Responsibility of ICS Security Experts.

Podcast from: ZDNet.com, May 23, 2011

In this AusCERT-related podcast, Stilgherrian, Writer for ZDNet, interviews Eric Byres as he talks about the likelihood of seeing a "Son-of-Stuxnet" worm within the next year.

Other topics of the podcast about AusCERT include the insecurities of internet routing and the drama that started with a Facebook hack and ended with a journalist being arrested.

Podcast: Stuxnet, routing hacks and a seized iPad

Video From: SCADAhacker.com, April 2011

Cyber security for industrial control systems is now receiving a lot of attention due in part to the devastating power of the Stuxnet worm and its impact on the Iranian nuclear program in 2010, but also with the disclosure of 34 vulnerabilities on various control systems in March 2011.

Article in: InTech Web Exclusive, April 2011

The susceptibility of control systems to security issues continues to confront organizations. Although it is rare to penetrate a control system directly from the internet, the advanced hacker or typical worm still has many options created by corporate connections, remote support links, USB keys, laptops, etc.

Podcast from:  Digitalbond.com, February 2011

Dale Peterson of DigitalBond.com talks with Eric Byres CTO Tofino Security, Andrew Ginter of Abterra Technologies and Joel Langill of SCADAhacker.com, the three authors of the new 26-page whitepaper "How Stuxnet Spreads – A Study of Infection Paths in Best Practice Systems." 37:27 - 1:08:30

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Video From: Byres Security, October 2008

Eric Byres, CTO of Byres Security, presents the seven steps to industrial-strength security with Tofino™.