2017 Archives - Dale Peterson: ICS Security Catalyst

Unsolicited Response Podcast: Interview with Steve Bitar and 10-minute Rant

15 Aug 2017 | 2017

This episode begins with a 10 minute monologue from Dale Peterson on why demonstrations of insecure by design, no SDL and modifying physical processes is not particularly interesting for the advanced ICS security audience … and why it is still important. Then we...

The ICS Security Stories We Tell And Love

1 Aug 2017 | 2017, Podcast

We, the ICS community, have some mantras: It will take decades to fix the ICS security problemOperations Technology (OT) is different than Information Technology (IT)You can’t do X, Y or Z in ICS because … which is followed by a variety of reasons such as...

Unsolicited Response Podcast with Rob Lee

19 Jul 2017 | 2017

Rob Lee Dale Peterson interviews Rob Lee, founder and CEO of Dragos – SANS 515 Creator – former SCADA Diva – Chief FUD Debunker – …, focusing on how an asset owner should select an advanced IDS detection solution from...

Unsolicited Response Podcast with Joel Langill

29 Jun 2017 | 2017

Joel Langill, aka the SCADAHacker, joined me on the Unsolicited Response podcast to discuss ICSsec training and workforce development. Joel is the Director of ICS Cybersecurity at AECOM, see http://www.aecom.com/solutions/converged-resilience/. He also runs...

Unsolicited Response Podcast Is Back … With John Matherly of Shodan

23 May 2017 | 2017

Rebooting the Unsolicited Response Podcast was one of my 2017 goals, and I didn’t want it to be one and done. So I recorded a number of them before issuing this first episode so you can expect at least one a month. (Episode 2 is with Joel Langill, aka SCADAhacker). If...

Insanely Crowded ICS Anomaly Detection Market

22 May 2017 | 2017

Goal: Help Owner/Operators select the best anomaly detection solution for their ICS. It sounds simple, but after getting numerous demos and pitches from vendors, the almost unanimous contention from each vendor was that their solution was the best. Why? Because they...

Evaluating ICS Anomaly Detection Solutions

8 May 2017 | 2017

It’s not getting better, and the number of vendors offering ICS anomaly detection solutions continues to grow in numbers and angel/venture funding. How is an asset owner to determine what anomaly detection approach, if any, is right for them? The first decision points...

RSA Conference Report

20 Feb 2017 | 2017

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...