UK CPNI Critical Controls List

The UK Government Centre for Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI) published a list of 20 Critical Controls for Cyber Defence in conjunction with SANS. Many in the ICS world don’t follow SANS, so this distribution may reach a broader ICS audience. The...

Pike Research / Industrial Defender Report

Industrial Defender recently hired Pike Research to write a research report titled: Convergence in Automation: Systems Protection, Monitoring, Managing, and Securing Control Systems, and it’s available for free with registration on the ID site. There also is a...

Conflicted About ISASecure Certification

Question – Can a PLC or other field device be certified as secure if lack of basic authentication allows an attacker to control a process and compromise the integrity of the PLC? Between Dillon’s S7 work, Ruben’s recent Modicon post and all the...