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Thursday, April 01, 2010
Wurldtech At ABB Automation & Power World 2010
On May 17, Wurldtech’s CEO Tyler Williams will join cyber security leaders from ABB at this year’s Automation & Power World being held in Houston Texas. Mr. Williams will be speaking as a subject matter expert in two sessions outlined below: Session 1 - Security testing of T&D devices and systems: A very important aspect of improving the securing of the critical infrastructure is security testing. This workshop will discuss the different facets of security testing on device and system level. It will look at what type of security tests can and needs to be done by vendors, by dedicated ...
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Friday, March 19, 2010
It's Official & Public!
It is not often in a professional career where you get to be a part of something truly meaningful that actually changes the Zeitgeist of your community before your eyes. Yesterday I had such an experience. I had the great pleasure of joining the plant security working group of the WIB International Instrument Users Association, at the 2010 WIB Industrial Cyber Security conference in The Hague, in the public announcement of the world’s first completed and operational cyber security standard for suppliers of process automation and control infrastructure. The “Process Control Domain Cyber Security Requirements For Vendors” has been officially ...
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Thursday, March 18, 2010
Wurldtech Talks Smart Grid Cyber Security
Wurldtech’s CEO, Tyler Williams has been invited to return to this year’s Smart Grid Roadshow in Cincinatti Ohio on May 11th. Last year Mr. William’s joined a panel of experts, including: Dave Dalva, Senior Security Strategist, Cisco Ward Pyles; Senior Security Analyst, Southern Company Steven Noel, IT Director, Constellation Power to discuss the challenges of how to practically implement security solutions for rapidly deployed and quickly evolving advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) Mr. Williams is invited to many conferences each year to speak about his perspective on cyber security, especially now as the Smart Grid / AMI concept is operationalized in ...
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Tuesday, March 02, 2010
Wurldtech At European SCADA and Control Systems Information Exchange (EuroSCSIE)
On the heels of our last post announcing our joint presentation with Shell at the upcoming Industrial Control System Joint Working Group (ICSJWG), we’re pleased to announce another speaking engagement - this time at EuroSCSIE 2010.
EuroSCSIE is Europe’s premier industrial cyber security conference with many of world’s leading cyber security experts, industry stakeholders and international government agencies in attendance to discuss the latest topics in industrial cyber security.
Our CEO Tyler Williams will be presenting on the Achilles Practices Certification Program and update the community on the progress of current field trials.
The conference will take place in Berne, ...
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Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Wurldtech & Shell At Upcoming ICSJWG
Wurldtech’s CEO Tyler Williams, together with cyber security leaders from Shell and at least one (yet to be selected) major process automation and control system supplier, will be presenting at this year’s US Department Of Homeland Security’s Industrial Control Systems Joint Working Group (ICSJWG) conference. The topic will be the Achilles Functional Cyber Security Best Practices Certification program. At last year’s ICSJWG, Wurldtech, Shell and Invensys announced the creation of the program along with the strategic objectives and timelines for 2009 and 2010. Our presentation at this year’s conference will provide the attendees with an update on the program’s progress ...
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Friday, February 19, 2010
A Tipping Point Nears….
This is a long one… Having now been in The Netherlands for the past three weeks helping to expand Wurldtech into the region and building a operations team to service our European customers, I’ve been fortunate enough to also be directly involved in the introduction of a new cyber security initiative which I believe will result in a paradigm shift for process automation and control stakeholders worldwide. First a little context… Many of you will have heard our executives speak at conferences as what we call SSL teachers (Security As A Second Language) Admittedly, I am but a business man, ...
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Monday, January 25, 2010
Honeywell’s Safety Manager Is Achilles Certified
Today marks another milestone for the Achilles Certification program with the announcement of the 16th Achilles-certified control system, this time from Honeywell Process Solutions. The Experion® Safety Manager is the second control system from Honeywell to meet the Level one criteria, along with the Experion® PKS C300 Process Controller, and joins a long series of certified products that have made the Achilles Certified designation the standard for cyber security certification in the industrial automation industry. The certification was performed by exida, a global leader in functional safety and security products and services, and accredited Wurldtech certification partner. This falls on ...
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Sunday, January 24, 2010
Wurldtech CEO To Speak At Upcoming WIB Seminar About Emerging SCADA & Smart Grid Security Initiatives
The International Instrumentation Users Association (WIB) has invited Mr. Williams to join executives and SME’s from organizations such as NICC, Shell and McAfee to share industry experiences in the hopes of helping end-user stakeholders make more effective business decisions to improve the security & reliability of critical industrial control and smart grid infrastructure deployments. During the meeting, Mr. Williams and Ted Angevaare from Shell, will formally announce the introduction of the Achilles Cyber Security Best Practices Certification program - which we are currently piloting with selected vendors so stay tuned for more information. The seminar will be held on March ...
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Monday, January 18, 2010
Certification Program Update: Achilles Certified Products
In my last post, I discussed the importance of checking the versions of the devices, systems, and applications that are being sold as Achilles Certified, as the certification designation is tied to a specific version number. Given the amount of recent requests from end-users about who is certified, and the fact that we are still a few weeks away from our new website which will contain a complete database of certified products, I thought I would show a list of the certified devices here: Embedded Controllers Vendor Device Model Version ABB AC800M Controller PM865 5.0.1001.51 ABB Plantguard TMR Safety ...
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Wurldtech’s CTO To Speak At RSA 2010
Each spring, security experts from all over the world converge on the Moscone centre in San Francisco to discuss the global cyber security zeitgeist at RSA. Although RSA is mainly focused on Enterprise/IT security, the security, reliability and resilience of the digital networks that comprise the backbone of our national/global critical infrastructures, has surfaced as one of the most important issues in cyber security today. Dr. Nate Kube has been selected, as an internationally-recognized subject matter expert on industrial cyber security and critical infrastructure protection, to present his take on the state of the industry. Dr. Kube will be co-presenting ...
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