Submitted by Frank Williams on Wed, 2012-01-11 15:43
Today is the day that Tofino Security is announcing that I have joined their team. I am very excited about this, particularly because I believe that industrial cyber security is the next major impactful technology to hit the automation industries.
I am also excited to be joining Eric and Joann Byres and their group; people I have high regard for, as I believe Tofino Security technology is poised to lead the way in protecting the critical infrastructure industries.
Submitted by Eric Byres on Wed, 2011-11-30 10:32
I just returned from the massive SPS IPC Drives show in Nuremburg, Germany. This is a massive show - according to the SPS web site, there were 56,321 visitors! An industrial automation show of this size is something I haven’t seen in North America since the glory days of ISA in the 1980s. If you want to see the trends and new technologies in the automation world, this is a good place to start.
Submitted by rahulsebos on Tue, 2011-01-04 13:55
In the post-Stuxnet cyber security world, many vendors are actively thinking about protective measures that could prevent a similar attack on industrial systems.
Such measures could be implemented at the PC-level, the PLC-level, or even the Profibus or device-level. They could include methods such as antivirus-scanners, firewalls, patch management, password policies, USB usage policies, code integrity checkers, etc. However, all of these measures are ones that are implemented at the highest levels of an industrial system.
