Walt Boyes' Blog

PR Wall of Shame... I just received a note from a PR/event management agency; at the end of the note the following privacy statement was attached: NOTICE: The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of … [Read more...] about Twist My Arm, Will You? OK Another Edition of the…

This morning seven of us met as an ad-hoc working group to get Johann Nye's proposal we discussed on Monday for a security testing consortium or foundation off the blackboard and onto the street. Present were: Eric Byres, Wurldtech Analytics Joann Byres, Wurldtech Analytics Johann Nye, ExxonMobil Kevin Staggs, Honeywell Ted Angevaare, Shell Dan McDougall, Shell Walt Boyes, … [Read more...] about Getting the Security Testing Foundation Started

Dennis Holstein presented data from a Newton-Evans study on wireless use cases in the electric power industry, the results of which should dishearten anybody who has hopes of their being a quick and large market for industrial wireless products (at least in the electric power SCADA market anyway). … [Read more...] about Some bad news for wireless proponents

  Yesterday afternoon I attended a panel on security populated by Eric Byres, Kevin Staggs, and Matt Franz. Byres, of course, is the founder and former Director of the BCIT Internet lab, who moved to Wurldtech Analytical (which is run by his wife Joann) last month so he could maintain a non-academic "arms length" relationship with BCIT and still have the run of the lab. … [Read more...] about The Need for Security in Process Automation

This morning we heard from Cheri McGuire, the Director, CIP Cybersecurity Program, National Cybersecurity Division, Department of Homeland Security, who is taking over responsibility for the Process Control Systems Forum in the future. She talked in great generality about the "overarching (insert noun here) framework" such as the "overarching risk management framework" and so … [Read more...] about More Better Process Security, We Hope!