The PCSF 2007 Annual Meeting is scheduled for March 6-8 in Atlanta. They have just issued a “Call for Solutions” with a short deadline. Proposals are due by Dec 12th, so get on it if you are interested in presenting.

The solution areas are Understanding Risk, Requirements/Operational Considerations, Arechitecture/Design, and Devices/Components. The solutions are suppose to present real-world, practical solutions but not be commercial. This could be a very fine line to walk.

PCSF may be at a critical juncture. It’s mission is a bit amorphous as compared to an organization that is writing a standard or regulating a sector, such as NERC CIP or the AGA 12 encryption effort. There have been some very good meetings and sessions at PCSF events, but it is difficult to identify major efforts or results

In the end, PCSF success or failure may hinge more on the SCADA security communities desire and willingness to expend time and effort to use PCSF as a vehicle to collaborate, share information and work for joint solutions than anything that DHS, Mitretek or the Governing Board does.