Can We Share Information? (Log4j and CODESYS)

17 May 2022 | 2019

It started with Bryan Owen’s reply to a tweet. Was hoping response for Incontroller/Pipedream would have been a rally call to inventory ICS with embedded Codesys. A community approach similar to Log4j inventory could have been lead by @cisagov — bryan owen...

Hope In The ICS Security Workforce

27 Apr 2022 | 2019

We had the pleasure of hosting ~800 ICS security professionals in Miami South Beach last week at S4x22. While the record number of attendees was a good sign of the growing attention being paid to ICS security, it was the composition of the attendees that is even more...
Sprinting To Secure The US Power Grid

Sprinting To Secure The US Power Grid

20 Apr 2021 | 2019

Last week a Bloomberg article covered the Biden Administration’s plan for a 100-day sprint to secure the power grid. I’ll comment on the three focus areas the article lays out and more broadly on 100-day efforts. Monitoring The Grid And Sending Data To The...
Securing Closed Loop ICS Cloud Services

Securing Closed Loop ICS Cloud Services

13 Feb 2020 | 2019

Technology Is Available … Is The Will There? Bryan Owen of OSIsoft defined, and perhaps coined, ICS cloud services as being open loop or closed loop. Securing open loop cloud services is simple. Just push the data out to the cloud for predictive maintenance,...

The Future of the ICS Product Market

29 Oct 2019 | 2019, Strategy

Most of the activity in the ICS security product market has been around passive solutions that create asset inventories and detect cyber incidents. It is a bit astounding that the market and solutions will look almost completely different in two to five years than...
Podcast: Interview with Marina Krotofil

Podcast: Interview with Marina Krotofil

29 Oct 2019 | 2019, Podcast

http://traffic.libsyn.com/unsolicitedresponse/2019-14_Marina_Krotofil.mp3 Marina Krotofil has been able to view the ICS security world from a number of perspectives. Beginning as an academic; working for an ICS vendor (Honeywell); working for an ICS security products...

Podcast: Sean McBride and ICS Cybersecurity Education

17 Oct 2019 | 2019, Podcast

http://traffic.libsyn.com/unsolicitedresponse/2019-13_Sean_McBride.mp3 In this episode Dale interviews Sean McBride. Sean was on some of the earliest Unsolicited Response episodes when he was a Founder and Analyst with Critical Intelligence, the first ICS Threat Intel...

Podcast: An Interview with Patrick Miller

6 Oct 2019 | 2019, Podcast

http://traffic.libsyn.com/unsolicitedresponse/2019-12_Miller.mp3 I took the opportunity to interview Patrick Miller while we were both in Sochi speaking at the Kaspersky KICS event. Patrick is a Founder and Managing Partner of Archer International, and he has been a...
Podcast: S4x19 Closing Panel

Podcast: S4x19 Closing Panel

14 Aug 2019 | 2019, Podcast

http://traffic.libsyn.com/unsolicitedresponse/2019-11_Closing_Panel.mp3 The S4 Closing Panel is always a candid discussion on where the community is in securing ICS, where we are succeeding and where need to do better. This year I was joined by Rob Lee of Dragos and...