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Thursday, July 09, 2009
Wurldtech Gears Up To Help Secure The Smart Grid
Wurldtech today announced a major strategic initiative to help address the critical cyber security & interoperability challenges facing the energy sector and specifically the bulk power industry with Smart Grid.
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Tuesday, June 02, 2009
Achilles Helps Make The Smart Grid Safe & Secure
We’re excited to announce the latest feature enhancement to our award-winning network testing platform – Achilles. In an effort to help improve the security and robustness of emerging industrial wireless and smart grid infrastructure, we have expanded the testing capabilities of the Achilles Satellite to allow manufacturers of wireless networked devices communicating over IEEE 802.15.4 to identify cyber vulnerabilities before deploying them into our critical electric power infrastructures.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Wurldtech Announces Achilles Certified OPC
We’re excited to announce the next phase in our Achilles certification program with an agreement with MatrikonOPC to create the worlds first security certified industrial connectivity infrastructure.
With all the attention lately in the media surrounding cyber terrorism and the vulnerabilities found on the networks that control and manage global critical services such as power, energy, transportation and telecommunications, the need for more practical, data-driven solutions has never been so great. This announcement highlights the continued expansion and growth of our internationally-recognized certification program and further solidifies the “Achilles Certified” brand as the defacto standard for communicating industrial control infrastructure ...
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Sunday, September 07, 2008
On Vulnerability Disclosure
This year’s PCSF saw many productive discussions on the topic of responsible vulnerability disclosure (big hat tip to Zach and Mike who managed to keep the conversations from reducing to a bun fight). I want to take a moment to further detail a few of my own opinions on this subject matter.
Let me begin with a somewhat pragmatic definition of device vulnerabilities: Device Vulnerabilities (I wonder if this is where Tipping Point’s DVlabs name stemmed from) can be thought of as software, hardware, or requirements artifacts that may be utilized to violate the explicit or implied operational characteristics of ...
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Thursday, July 17, 2008
Wurldtech Continues its Tradition of Innovation at PCSF: Dr. Kube to Present AchillesINSIDE
Building on last year’s PCSF event in Atlanta, GA where we unveiled the Achilles Certification Program, we are set for another introduction at this year’s event in La Jolla, CA (August 26-28, 2008). Dr. Nate Kube will present AchillesINSIDE, one of this year’s most anticipated solutions from Wurldtech Labs. Should be another fantastic event! Topic: AchillesINSIDE – Intelligent Cyber Security and Risk Management for Industrial Environments Presenter: Dr. Nate Kube, CTO, Wurldtech Security Technologies, Inc. Time: Wednesday, August 27th About the PCSF 2008 Annual Meeting:
End-user involvement in collaborating towards advances in control system cyber security policy, practices, standards, tools, ...
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Friday, July 11, 2008
Dr. Nate Kube to demo SIS Security Compromise at ACS in Chicago
Joe Weiss has released the tentative agenda for the upcoming 2008 Applied Control Systems - Control Systems Cyber Security Conference set for August 4-7, 2008 in Chicago, IL.
We are excited to announce Dr. Nate Kube, Wurldtech’s Co-Founder and CTO, is slated to present, “Considerations for Security of Integrated Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS): A live Demonstration of a SIS Security Compromise” on August 6th at 2:00pm. More information on this timely and extremely significant presentation will be coming shortly.
With a full line up of speakers and topics, this year’s ACS Conference promises to be one of the most informative ...
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Process Risk Analysis & Threat Modeling: A Practical Perspective into SCADA and Process Control Cyber Security
In the not too distant past, cutting edge western medicine explained illnesses in terms of humours. If you had a cold, you had too much phlegm, so you would balance your humours by increasing your yellow bile, which was antagonistic to phlegm. Apparently this involved sitting in bed and drinking lots of wine.
Now, as comfortable as this remedy sounds, it has a drawback: it doesn’t work. The idea of humours has some correlation with reality, since it was based on observation, but it is oversimplified. Now we know that the outward symptoms of colds are our body’s attempt to ...
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Friday, April 11, 2008
Dr. Kube Presents Twice At The Yokogawa Technology Fair & User Conference 2008
We are proud to showcase some coverage on Dr. Nate Kube’s two presentations at the Yokogawa Technology Fair & User Conference 2008 in Houston, TX.
Courtesy of Control Global, here are the links to recaps of his talks:
Talk 1: Best Practices in Securing Process Automation Networks (April 9, 2008): http://www.controlglobal.com/articles/2008/129.html
Talk 2: To Fix System Bugs, Wurldtech Gets Fuzzy Wid It (April 10, 2008): http://www.controlglobal.com/articles/2008/132.html
Enjoy.
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Sunday, February 17, 2008
Random Musings from a Proud CEO
This BLOG has been an excellent way to get our message out to the world and enabled some of the best minds in the industrial cyber security space to share their insights and experiences and further contribute to the collective knowledge-base the industry so desperately needs.
This medium also affords me the opportunity to connect directly with our clients, friends, investors and staff to share in what I feel has been one of the most amazing success stories of my career to date. With that in mind, I wish to share a small story.
Let me preface this with a ...
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Friday, February 01, 2008
Why Testing I/O Matters…
Industrial Users: If you aren’t testing the I/O, you aren’t testing the device!
We know that one of the unique benefits of Achilles testing is its ability to test the functions available on I/O. When a square wave is no longer a square wave, the devices connected to a process control asset can no longer be expected to perform as designed. It is a unique value proposition of this tool, but some may question whether or not it is necessary.
Discerning industrial users and suppliers already have robust testing methodologies in place that test functionality, but device resiliency from a ...
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