S4x14 Session: At Least Pretend You Care

UPDATE – The video is added.  I wrongly assumed this was the lost 15-minute session. Sorry Sean. Sean McBride of Critical Intelligence goes into some real world examples of success and failure in ICS Vulnerability Analysis. Viewers should be aware there may...

Friday News & Notes

Some of the big names, AT&T, Cisco, GE, IBM and Intel, have created the Industrial Internet Consortium. GE has been pushing the term Industrial Internet and may be the hub of the five founding partners, who by the way hold a majority of permanent seats in the IIC....

Redpoint: Discover & Enumerate BACnet Devices

Digital Bond has had an internal research project to develop tools that discover and enumerate ICS applications and devices. We call this project Redpoint, and we use the growing list of tools with care on ICS security assessments and other projects for our clients....

Is The Cyber Component of War Less Predictable?

Martin Libiki wrote “Why Cyber War Will Not and Should Not Have Its Grand Strategist” in the Spring 2014 edition of Strategic Studies Quarterly, and for a shorter take on this read Tim Steven’s summary and analysis of this article. The pull quote...

Friday News & Notes

Dragos Security founders Matt Luallen and Robert Lee announced their first product: CyberLens.  CyberLens enables the passive discovery and identification of cyber assets on a network. I asked and Robert answered in a twitter discussion what makes CyberLens...

S4x14 Video: Defending “Known Vulnerable” ICS

Monzy Merza of Splunk had a S4x14 defensive session. Working with an actual, deployed Building Management System (BMS), Monzy wrote python scripts to export the data from the BMS to Splunk for analysis. He focused solely on what could be detected from info logged...

Mining Malware – Seeking, and Finding False Positives

We’ve covered some of the main points of the Mining Malware project, but haven’t gotten to the real meat of the discussion; What would a search for automation software look like, and would it even be successful? To demonstrate this, I’m going to...

Friday News & Notes

The big news of the week is Industrial Defender will be acquired by Lockheed Martin. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed; it would be very interesting to know how an ICSsec product is valued in the market. Industrial Defender, formerly known as Verano, was one...

ICSsec Training Options Abound

Back in ~2004 I started teaching a 3-day course on SCADA Security for Infosec Institute. Back then the term ICS didn’t exist, and the INL/DHS courses were the only other options. I left the class after about 18 months with the realization training is hard work...

Announcing S4xJapan, Oct 14-15 in Tokyo

Digital Bond is pleased to announce our first S4 event outside of the US … S4xJapan on October 14 – 15 in Tokyo. The call for papers will come out on May 1st, and the event will open for registration on August 1st. Here is some advance information: The...