ICS Industry Pioneer and Expert Eric Byres of ICS-Secure reports on the RSA Conference last week. I just returned from the RSA Conference 2017 in San Francisco, after a five year hiatus. If you are not familiar with the RSA Conferences, they are one of the...
Learn More and Register For S4x17, Jan 10-12 in Miami South Beach We have learned in recent years to leave a slot or two for late breaking attacks on ICS or hot research in the S4 agenda. Ukraine has helped fill this spot now for the second year in a row. We know that...
2016 was a turning point with secure ICS protocols. For a while it was limited primarily to OPC UA and DNP3 SA, but 2016 brought us a secure version of CIP / Ethernet/IP, Secure Modbus and a couple of others that will soon be unveiled. This should be enough...
There are two sessions at S4x17, Jan 10-12 in Miami South Beach, covering actual ransomware incidents in ICS. Marcelo Branquinho of TI Safe will go over two case studies that occurred in South America on the Main Stage, and RSA will discuss an ICS ransomware case in...
Register for S4x17 now! Ticket Block 151 – 200 on sale now for $1,395. First – Reid provided me with the official Killer Robots, Inc logo. Second – My thoughts on who should consider participating in the S4 ICS CTF. A person with hacking skills, but...
We wanted to do it at S4x16, but couldn’t get it done. It’s going to happen at S4x17. A South Florida High School Class will go through two days of hands on automation and security training with Matthew Luallen and the CybatiWorks kit, and then 12 of the...
OSIsoft is back again as a S4xCTF sponsor, and they are bringing back Killer Robots, Inc. with new and unsolved flags from last year. Enter Harry Paul of OSIsoft to give you some information and hints to help you get some of the PI System related flags in the S4x17...
See the S4x17 Agenda and Register Now We had a number of sponsors at S4x16 complain that few of the 300 attendees came to their talk, although a few were standing room only. So this year we were blunt, your sponsor session is competing against quality content on...
Submit and Vote on Questions for Justine Bone of MedSec I am pleased to announce that Justine Bone of MedSec agreed to an interview on the Main Stage at S4x17. Vulnerability disclosure is and has been a contentious topic in ICS. I generally don’t write much...
Check out the S4x17 Agenda At A Glance and Register Now The industrial firewall and ICS anomaly detection markets are getting very crowded. The industrial firewall market is older, but it is still expanding both in specialized ICS firewalls and enterprise firewalls...
