industrial automation control

Article in:  ControlGlobal, June 2010

The majority of control system cyber threats are unintentional, as discussed in this article that summarizes data from the Repository of Industrial Security Incidents (RISI).  Tips on how to start reducing the risk of cyber threats are provided.

Could Cyber Terrorists Attack Our Company?

Article in: Pipeline & Gas Journal, February 2009

Eric Byres, CTO of Tofino Security, has published an article about cyber security and pipeline control systems in Pipeline and Gas Journal.....

CYBER SECURITY AND THE PIPELINE CONTROL SYSTEM

Article in: InTech Magazine, December 2007

Over the past 10 years, the industrial controls (IC) world has borrowed substantially from the world of information technologies (IT)...

Eric Byres, Jim Bauhs, and Brian Mason; "Forget the Silos, Build the Bridge", InTech Magazine, December 2007

Abstract: In this second White Paper of the OPC  Security Series, we describe the vulnerabilities typically found in OPC hosts, based on OPC’s current architecture and the typical underlying operating system. We also investigate common misconfiguration vulnerabilities found in OPC server or client computers both at the operating system and OPC application level. Finally, using these vulnerabilities we propose four possible risk scenarios for OPC-based attacks.

E.J. Byres, B. Chauvin, D. Hoffman, J. Karsch and N. Kube; “The Special Needs of SCADA/PCN Firewalls: Architectures and Test Results”, The 11th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Catania Italy, September 2005

E.J. Byres and J. Lowe; “The Myths and Facts behind Cyber Security Risks for Industrial Control Systems”, VDE 2004 Congress, VDE, Berlin, October 2004