Category: Physical Security Infrastructure
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..and the AMI gear is on the same switch as…
Nothing new but a decent summary of the state of cyber-security in the Energy space. No, it’s not just another replay of the “AMI is Hot this week, SCADA was Hot last week” NERC/CIP rant. Remember, for every substation with AMI head-end gear, there’s some ill-secured SCADA gear, debatably hiding behind it’s not-really-obscure RS-232 cabling.…
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D/R 201: Maintain Fresh Batteries
Years ago, at the dawn of the dot-Com age, when crypto was cool and Distinguished Names were already an arcane concept, there was a story, let’s be kind and say it’s an urban legend, about root keys. In the early days you bought a BBN Safekeeper. It kept the RSA private key safe. It had…
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Not the PowerPoint slide you wanted to share
This is DEFINITELY not the PowerPoint slide you want shared at your next project postmortem meeting where you discuss poor estimates of project risk. On the other hand, the next postmortem I have to attend is one of those “…and THAT is why I was standing in the data center in front of the Cisco…
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Humble. Definition.
What you feel when introduced to someone who served over 500 days in combat in World War II.
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Please – no “telnet” to the vehicle barrier
ASIS 2010 Annual Conference/Exhibition, Dallas Texas. Yep. Went to Dallas. Went to the show. So some good things (vendors actually using syslog, managed switches being demonstrated.) Saw some things I’m not thrilled with (proprietary protocols used with encryption, serial to ethernet converter products (in 2010 !!!) Is this marketplace getting more network-clueful? Yes? Is it…