It’s about time for another update on the Quickdraw project, Digital Bond’s passive log generator project.  So far most of the work has been research with the equipment in the lab and writing C code for Snort.  This post is broken up into two pieces, first about what I’ve learned about how equipment talks and [...]

Quickdraw is a software tool currently under development with funding from the Department of Homeland Security to passively analyze network communication between components of a SCADA system, track user transactions and log Security Events that could impact the system.  The last post on Quickdraw outlined some high-level ideas about Security Events.  This post explores some [...]

Quickdraw is Digital Bond’s DHS funded security project to develop an application that will generate security log events for PLC’s and other legacy field devices with little or no security event logging capability.  While evaluting the technical requirements necessary to capture the security events identified for Quickdraw, Martin Solum and I came up with some [...]

We are pleased to announce the latest addition to our team - - Frank Marcus. Frank studied with Eric Byres at BCIT and was one of the lead programmers of Achilles at Wurldtech.
Frank will be one of the prime researchers on Digital Bond’s DHS funded Quickdraw project and will contribute to our offensive security [...]

I’m pleased to announce we have begun work on another research project. This one is funded by the Department of Homeland Security, Science and Technology Directorate. The project is the PLC Passive Security Event Log Generator, which we will be calling Quickdraw.
Quickdraw will be an application running on Windows or Linux that will passively monitor [...]