What !
" “They were designed to manage regulators and voltage flow and that’s still what they do.”
voltage flow ! Sigh - it's also the 2nd time I've heard the term this week.
Hoping to keep industrial control systems out of reach of hackers by keeping them air-gapped is a hopeless mission that’s bound for failure, according to a SCADA guru. Isolating SCADA systems as a means of protection has been suggested by some as a defensive tactic after hackers briefly took out elements of the power grid in …
"SCADA started off with archaic protocols such as FDDI, Token Ring but “good luck building a network with anything other than TCP/IP now,” Lakhani added."
Uh, last time I looked, Token Ring was a transport protocol, it can handle TCP/IP traffic just as it can handle any other.
True, it's expensive and outdated, but goofs like this make me wonder whether anything the guy says can be trusted.
Sorry but that's factually incorrect.
There was a piece of equipment (specifically a Siemens/Simatic "programming panel") which was (unfortunately) allowed to connect to the corporate LAN, where it got infested by a Windows zero day exploit. It was then physically or logically allowed to connect to the automation LAN, where its normal use is programming the automation gear, hence the name. The zero day payload then infested the Siemens Simatic kit on the automation network.
Gross oversimplification, but the story is widelty documented (Ralph Langner is one of the better ones).
Where were you suggesting the Plastic Padding should have been applied to be useful in that picture?
I make SCADA software. There is no way in Hell to get customers to pay me to add a security layer, and I can't afford doing it for free. If I insisted, they'd just get someone else to do it. There are technical problems, sure, but the main one is economical/cultural.
I make SCADA software. There is no way in Hell to get customers to pay me to add a security layer, and I can't afford doing it for free. If I insisted, they'd just get someone else to do it. There are technical problems, sure, but the main one is economical/cultural...... Anonymous Coward
So, as was mentioned earlier within an alien solution, we agree, AC, When the Problem is the Lowest Common Denominator Introduce an Upper Divider and AIDivision, is the abiding problem human ..... with Advanced Intelligence AWOL and/or MIA.
Do you think the deficiency can be supplied artificially via virtually remote anonymous means and autonomous memes?
The posit here from this source is most certainly it can, and when needs must, it always is provided and a new orderly world order takes over makeovers.
Impossible to believe that it be humanly possible with Cyber Command and Computer Control of IT and AI? Or presently just too difficult to comprehend and accept SMARTRMedia is sharing and launching?
“20 years ago, Faizel Lakhani .. created the first SCADA system .. it’s only since the appearance of the nuclear centrifuge-busting Stuxnet worm back in 2010 that anybody has paid serious attention to the security of the technology”
“Slammer downed one utility's critical SCADA network”
“FE’s computer SCADA alarm and logging software failed sometime shortly after 14:14 EDT (the last time that a valid alarm came in)”