Comment from Ron Southworth
Time: March 29, 2009, 10:53 pm

Thanks Dale & Sean for the Podcast.

I thought I would comment in general terms here in response. I apreciate the intent of the directions, the stakeholders involved needing to have some tangeable “buy in”, resulting in the approach that is being taken and outlined thus far.

I must say as a first impression I have some reservations to how the exchange processes are structured specifically when it comes to the ISAC’s in particular (energy being the exception). I am still hoping to hear that eventually a more direct approach to the challange of exchange and communications is to be developed, if only as an exception to the rule being made for ICS cyber security.

Actuality my real hope is for a more global approach to be developed to manage these challanges and that it can be seen very quickly now the advantages of a more direct partnership with stakeholders in concert with people like our ICS Certs. One central challange is one of having sufficient expertise to support industry and the suggested sharing model, this problem really is a global problem and not a local one.

Perhaps after wading in the “broad and shallow pool” for a short while this will become a lot more self evident, especially when looking at high level interdependancies and teh impact these have with time critical communications exchanges and such.

Thanks once again and I look forward to collaborating where we can.

Ron