Industrial Defender

Recently a partner of ours, Invensys Operations Management, won the prestigious Breakthrough Product of the Year Award for 2010 from Processing Magazine. They won it for a product that we helped engineer, the Triconex Tofino OPC Firewall.

We think this is a big deal for two reasons. Obviously one reason is that a product we help create won a major award – pretty cool.

Over the past month, there has been no shortage of reports on how Stuxnet is attacking the Iranian Nuclear Program. Unfortunately, good advice on what exactly Industrial Control System (ICS) owner/operators can do to protect themselves against Stuxnet (and its future offspring) is in short supply. In fact much of what passes as technical guidance is either too IT-focused or simply wrong.