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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
