Byres Security and Invensys have announced a Tofino Firewall module for the Triconex Safety System. It looks an industrial device and has similar environmental specs, -40 to 70C, Class I Div 2 and Zone 2 approved. What is new about this product is OPC application intelligence.
The data sheet has most of the information, but if [...]

I will be previewing some of the papers and presentations in this year’s S4 over the next few weeks.
Digital Bond’s 4th Annual SCADA Security Scientific Symposium [S4] is being held January 20 – 21 in warm and sunny Miami Beach. S4 is a bleeding edge research event where technical papers are presented in detail to [...]

For those who were counting on war dialing being hacker passé, you may want to think again. A new tool (WarVOX) was made public this week that, using VOIP services, is able to scan a 10,000 number exchange in eight hours or less. It might be time to check those modem lines for “emergency” support [...]

Richard Bejtlich asks the question “Why Network Taps?” over at the TaoSecurity blog this week. I’m a huge fan of network taps for IDS, general monitoring and troubleshooting. It’s hard to beat the visibility a tap provides at your network entry and exit points. Bejtlich spells out several reasons why taps are a good idea [...]

Shortly after publishing the Innominate blog, a new press release from Byres Security hit the mailbox. [link to be added when available] The Secure Asset Management module purports to “discover[s] and identify[ies] what devices are on the network and creates the firewall rules to control the traffic flowing to them, all without risk to the [...]

The field security appliance market just got smaller – – or larger. Innominate was one of the first companies to develop a firewall for the plant floor or SCADA field sites. We have covered them in the blog over the years.
Innominate announced at Hannover Messe that they had been acquired by Phoenix Contact. This announcement [...]

In 2003 Hirschmann hardware and manufacturing and Innominate software security expertise combined to offer the EAGLE field firewall module. This month Hirschmann announced they will be replacing the Innominate software with their own. (Press release in German and roughly translated English version) (Hat tip: Stephan Beirer who always keeps an eye on activities in Europe)
This [...]

I had a chance to talk with Torsten Rossel of Innominate about a new model in their mGuard field security appliance line. The mGuard RS has support for Ethernet, dial-up and ISDN all in one small industrial appliance.
In this 10-minute interview we talk about the RS and some of the interesting features, such as rulebase [...]

 

 Innominate Interview: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

As a friend and admirer of Eric Byres, it was great to see his Tofino Field Security Device officially introduced to the market at ISA Expo. MTL, his manufacturing and distribution partner, had Tofino and the management system at their booth. I had a chance to get a full demo and dig into some of [...]

When iccpsic was released to vetted subscribers, Matt Franz reminded me that other systems, such as VoIP, use part of the utility stack fuzzed by iccpsic. Siemens PLC’s use the portion of the stack that is fuzzed by iccpsic.
After my last post, I thought it was time for some good news. Ralph Langner of Langner [...]