Items Tagged with "Industrial Control Systems"
SCADA and ICS Cyber Security - Facing the Facts
May 05, 2013 Added by:Eric Byres
In the past, the main reason for securing a SCADA/ICS network was to protect against inadvertent network incidents or attacks from insiders. The risk of an external malicious cyber-attack was considered minimal.
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Securing SCADA Systems - Why Choose Compensating Controls?
April 12, 2013 Added by:Eric Byres
This week, Eric looks at the pros and cons of using compensating controls as an alternative to patching, and discuss the requirements for success.
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The Threat to Industrial Control Systems from Physical Persistent Design Features (PPDF)
April 01, 2013 Added by:Joe Weiss
Industrial control systems (ICSs) were designed for reliability and safety and to enable system operability and functionality. Many ICSs were originally designed before networking was commonplace. Consequently, cyber security was not a design consideration.
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SCADA and ICS Security Patching: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
March 26, 2013 Added by:Eric Byres
Let's examine the good, the bad and the ugly details of patching as a means to secure SCADA and ICS systems. And to begin, let’s suppose patches could be installed without shutting down the process...
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SCADA and ICS Security: Welcome to the Patching Treadmill
March 15, 2013 Added by:Eric Byres
After Stuxnet, security researchers and hackers on the prowl for new targets to exploit shifted their efforts to critical industrial infrastructure. Unfortunately, the SCADA and Industrial Control Systems applications they are now focusing on are sitting ducks.
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SANS SCADA and Process Control Security Survey - The State of the Industry is Discouraging
March 04, 2013 Added by:Joe Weiss
SANS has published their SANS SCADA and Process Control Security Survey. The results paint a very confusing picture and actually demonstrate the existing approaches to awareness and security are not working.
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Time to Speak Up on New IF-MAP Specs for ICS and SCADA Security
February 12, 2013 Added by:Eric Byres
Something I believe industry urgently needs is better standards for information exchange between security solutions. Unfortunately while TCG has had feedback from the IT community, they have received little from the SCADA or ICS community. I encourage everyone involved with SCADA and ICS security to review the specification.
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Common Sense Cybersecurity
January 13, 2013 Added by:Larry Karisny
We start with one big problem. Internet architecture was never made for security. One of my earliest articles quoted the father of the Internet Vint Cerf by saying, "One of things incumbent on all of us is to introduce strong authentication into the fabric of the smart grid. We did not do that with the Internet."
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Perfect Citizen, US vulnerability assessment program on critical infrastructures
January 02, 2013 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
CNET web site has published a news on a secret National Security Agency program named Perfect Citizen that is targeting on large-scale the control systems inside utilities, including power grid and gas pipeline controllers, with the purpose to discover security vulnerabilities.
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Hackers at the Controls
December 16, 2012 Added by:Jayson Wylie
An FBI report details what could be the hacking elite sect of Anonymous, Antisec, using a backdoor to compromise an air-conditioning control system in New Jersey. This leaves me to the question of how vulnerable the government and private sectors are for these types of compromise...
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Modernizing Physical Security and Incorporating Best Practices Into New Assets
November 18, 2012 Added by:Michele Westergaard
Cyber security threats to the utility industry are increasing in number and sophistication. The North American Reliability Corporation (NERC) is increasing the Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) regulatory requirements to ensure facilities are meeting basic standards in this area...
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Industrial Control System Security: A Reliability Issue?
November 06, 2012 Added by:Larry Karisny
Cyber Security Expert Joe Weiss has spearheaded the ICS Cyber Security Conference for 12 years and when he calls in the troops, the best come to serve. Last month’s conference held at Old Dominion University's Virginia Modeling Analysis and Simulation Center -- VMASC in Suffolk, Va. -- was no different...
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Securing Smart Grid, SCADA, and Other Industrial Control Systems
October 11, 2012 Added by:Ben Rothke
The Stuxnet computer worm of mid-2010 was a huge wake-up call for the energy industry. It also catapulted SCADA from an obscure term to the forefront of industrial security. But nearly two years later, it is unclear if the energy sector is adequately prepared for sophisticated information security threats...
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Revenge of the NERCs?
October 04, 2012 Added by:Tripwire Inc
Ultimately this is critical stuff. If we don’t want to find ourselves wandering the wastelands searching for food and water fighting off marauding bands of marauders (is that redundant?) its important for these ninjas to get it right and keep the pirates at bay...
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Secure Communications in Harsh Environments
October 02, 2012 Added by:Patrick Oliver Graf
For a long time, hackers only targeted the IT systems of offices or individuals. This, however, has changed as the bad guys more frequently go after unconventional targets, like industrial and oil plants, refineries of all kinds, power grids or water utilities...
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We're Under Cyber Attack INSIDE America!
October 01, 2012 Added by:Doug DePeppe
Cyberattacks are mounting. They are getting more severe, and indicate nation-state support, reportedly from Iran. The US national strategy must change. It must address the need for capability where harm from an attack on critical infrastructure will be felt in communities across America...