The goal of Zero Trust is getting data securely across network, storage, and computing infrastructure you may not trust. The message is usually between two software entities that are trusted with human beings behind them. But that’s not what happens in an Industrial Control System, such as a DCS or a PLC based plant system. […]
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Could you also have an engineer’s Security Operations Center (SOC) rather than an IT/OT SOC?
I recently watched a webinar on industrial control system security[1] and asked a question during the Q and A. My question was „Could you also have an engineer’s SOC rather than an IT/OT SOC?“. My motive for asking this question was based on my understanding that the tradition enterprise SOC is IT oriented (office LAN/WAN, […]
In seeking to protect industrial control systems are we clear about what is being threatened and from what threats?
Reading the recently published Industrial Control Systems Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) Advanced Analytical Laboratory (AAL) White Paper on Malware Trends left me somewhat unimpressed and disappointed. Whenever I read a document about cybersecurity, especially one written by an institution dealing with the security of industrial control systems, I am keen to see how the authors […]