Who would have thought a podcast on insurance would be one of my favorite and most interesting I’ve done in the past few years. I spoke with Eireann Leverett and Jennifer Copic of the University of Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies. They were two of the researchers who helped Lloyds put together the paper Business […]

After a long and successful struggle to bring an industrial firewall to market, Eric Byres is leaving Belden and Tofino behind. We shouldn’t call it retirement because I expect that Eric will be contributing in a number of different ways in the next ten years. I gave Eric a few months to clear his head […]

Billy Rios of Laconicly joined me on the Unsolicited Response Podcast to discuss two topics: WhiteScope – an online ICS/SCADA whitelist that is trying to solve the last mile supply chain problem until vendors start signing their code. The WhiteScope data repository is available to all, free of charge. Medical Device Security – an area that […]

Episode 2015:2 SANS ICS Security Training and Certification SANS provided four individuals for our Unsolicited Response podcast on the 5-day ICS 410: ICS/SCADA Security Essentials training course and the related Global Industrial Cyber Security Professional (GICSP) certification. Scott Cassity, Managing Director of GIAC Mike Assante, SANS Lead for ICS/SCADA security training Justin Searle, SANS Instructor and […]

We had Kim Zetter on stage for an interview at ICSage during S4x15 Week to discuss her new book: Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World’s First Digital Weapon. This first 2015 episode of the Unsolicited Response Podcast features that interview. The podcast includes: Who was the target audience for the book Why […]

President Obama tasked NIST to develop a Cybersecurity Framework “to reduce cyber risks to critical infrastructure (the “Cybersecurity Framework”). The Cybersecurity Framework shall include a set of standards, methodologies, procedures, and processes that align policy, business, and technological approaches to address cyber risks. The Cybersecurity Framework shall incorporate voluntary consensus standards and industry best practices to […]

Thomas Rid, author of Cyber War Will Not Take Place, joins Dale Peterson to discuss cyber war and cyber weapons and how they will affect ICS.

Dale Peterson talks with Tom Elswick and Alan Cone about the technical details behind the new security features in the Siemens S7-1500 and TIA Portal.

The Unsolicited Response Podcast occurs whenever events warrant. Late last week I recorded an interview with Bob Radvanovsky who is the owner of SCADASEC and one of the leaders of Project Shodan Intelligence Extraction (Project Shine). Project Shine has found over 500,000 Internet accessible devices that can be loosely classified as SCADA, DCS or other […]

The inaugural episode is an interview with Brian Ahern, CEO and President of Industrial Defender. Industrial Defender is one of the oldest companies dedicated to ICS security and has moved emphasis back and forth between products, professional services and managed services. In recent years the focus has clearly been on the monitoring and management technologies and partnering with large ICS vendors.

I talked with Brian about two main issues:

1. What do these announced partnerships with ABB, Elster, GE, Itron, and Telvent really mean. Are they more than marketing buzz? How does a company the size of ID support all those partners? What level of integration is happening with ID security agents and technology with the vendor products? How important is the partner business to ID today and what is expected in the future?

2. How does ID balance the monitoring and recovery benefits of remote access to a SCADA/DCS with the risks of this remote access, especially in light of the recent cyber attack on Telvent?