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ICSJWG 2010 Spring Conference

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Highlights of the spring conference: The plant security working group of the WIB International Instrument User’s Association (www.wib.nl) has published report “M 2784 X10″ entitled “Process Control Domain – Security Requirements for Vendors”. Shell was a driving force behind this standard available for download here (note: WIB permission is needed to redistribute). Shell is starting to require their vendors to certify against M-2784 and Wurldtech is putting t << More >>

Application Whitelisting and Control Systems

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I just got back from the Digital Bond SCADA Security Scientific Symposium (S4) where I presented on whitelisting. Whitelisting is the “hot new” host intrusion prevention system (HIPS) technology that some tout as the end of the anti-virus (AV) era. Anti-virus of course works by producing a “black list” of virus signatures. If data or a file matches a signature, the AV technology takes some sort of action to protect your system – anything from a popup alert to blocki << More >>