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Sunday, September 05, 2010
Wurldtech at Metering Europe 2010
Wurldtech’s co-founder and president Tyler Williams will be speaking at this year’s Metering Europe conference being held in Vienna Austria. KEMA, an international consulting organization, is sponsoring the cyber security track on September 21 and invited Mr. Williams to talk about Wurldtech’s experience testing advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) from various roll-out projects throughout North America. This promises to be an exciting and informative session and we look forward to seeing you there! Details on the conference can be found here.
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Monday, July 05, 2010
Pike Research Names Wurldtech As Key Player In 3.7Billion Smart Grid Cyber Security Market
With North America and other nations around the world
transitioning their electrical systems to networked, smart grid
technology, a new report estimates that smart grid security is poised to
become a multi-billion dollar industry. According to a new report
recently released by Pike Research, between now and 2015, North America
will spend $1.5 billion–followed closely by Asia Pacific at $1.2 billion
and Europe at $784 million on smart grid security. Total global
spending is expected to reach $21 billion over the next five years. The
key piece of information lies in the estimate that 15 percent of total
investments in the grid will be for cyber security, as governments
develop ...
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Wednesday, June 23, 2010
The HIMA HIMax Is Achilles Certified!
The Wurldtech certification team is pleased to announce the 20th
Achilles certified industrial control system. The HIMax safety
controller from HIMA has achieved the internationally recognized
benchmark for system security and robustness on the previous 2.14/2.16
and latest 3.8/3.12 versions. What is important about this
announcement, beyond HIMA’s achievement, is the fact that vendors are
now starting to get multiple products and successive versions certified,
demonstrating a longer-term mindset by vendors. This is a big win for
the industry as the Achilles testing platform and associated
certification program crosses the “chasm” from the early adopter vendors
looking to one-off test ...
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Monday, May 31, 2010
Updated list of Achilles Certified Devices
Here is the list of all Achilles Certified devices as of May 31st, 2010.
In addition to the below embedded devices, we have also certified one software component: MatrikonOPC’s MatrikonOPC Server for Triconex Tricon and Trident, version 4.2.0.0.
Vendor
Device
Model
Version
ABB AC800M Controller PM865 5.0.1001.51 ABB Plantguard TMR Safety System P8110 352000 build 115 Emerson Process Management Delta V Controller MD Plus v8.4.1 and v9.3 HIMA HIMax X-CPU 01/X-COM 01 2.14/2.16 HIMA HIMax X-CPU 01/X-COM 01 3.8/3.12 Honeywell Experion PKS C300 CC-PCNT01 EXP310.1-65.71 ICS Triplex Trusted Controller T8110/T8110B 352000 build 115 Invensys Process Systems Tricon 10.3 4353 6236...
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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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