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You Can’t Tell The Players Without A Scorecard

There has been a fair amount of movement in some of the big names in SCADA security over the last year. To summarize:

  • The latest is Joe Weiss leaving Kema and joining Applied Control Solutions, LLC. A friend pointed this out on the PCSF agenda. I call Joe the Paul Revere of SCADA security for the role he played in raising awareness early in this decade. I’ll talk to Joe soon and let readers know more about his new endeavor.
  • Mark Fabro left Bearing Point and is now with Lofty Pearch
  • Bryan Singer left Rockwell Automation and is not with FluidIQ
  • Matt Franz left Digital Bond and is now with Hewitt
  • Karl Williams left NISCC and is now with Invensys
  • Scott Mix left Kema and is now with NERC
  • Dick Oyen left ABB and is working as an independent consultant
  • Eric Byres left BCIT and now runs Byres Security

Who did I miss?

I was chatting with Jonathan Pollett of Verano/Plantdata about this, and neither one of us could figure out if this means the SCADA security market is about to boom, stagnate or collapse. Or maybe it means nothing.

And just to complete your scorecard - - Mitretek is now Noblis.

Author: Dale Peterson
Posted: February 21st, 2007 under SCADA Vendor, Security Vendor.
Comments: 4

Comments

Comment from Jake Brodsky
Time: February 21, 2007, 2:31 pm

How about people starting to notice that there is a market for this stuff and they’re positioning themselves to take advantage of it. As most of us know, nothing moves quickly in this industry. I take this to mean that opportunities are emerging as inertia builds.

The changing are simply a reflection of the growth of interest. I expect the security features in this industry to mature as ISA-99 and other standards such as NIST SP 800-82 become more stable.

Comment from Ron Southworth
Time: February 21, 2007, 10:46 pm

Hi Dale,

I would suggest it is valid to take into accout the average age of the industry in general and the level of knowlege and skills and the calibre of all of these people.

Lifestyle choices and changing roles to find work you enjoy or career choices are also big ticket items at the moment.

It indicates to me that the industry is in a state of flux with an increase in opportunities verses people to fill said opportunities occurring.

PI mentioned on todays Webinar that China is training 20,000 power systems engineers per year in an effort to meet their requirements. That is a lot of demand.

Thanks for letting us know about Karl as I was wondering where he had left NISCC for. At least we have not lost him from the industry like we have I suspect with Matt. I hope Matt continues with some of his work as he will be difficult to replace (No Disrespect to Landon at all)

Comment from Matt Franz
Time: February 22, 2007, 10:49 am

I’m in passive mode, learning about those evil IT Security organizations from the inside out :)

Comment from Ron Southworth
Time: February 22, 2007, 8:36 pm

I cannot envisage you ever being passive passionate yes passive no have a good day Matt

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