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 […]

Stephan Beirer from GAI Netconsult in Berlin sent in this report from the Hannover Messe, a huge event in Europe.
Last year the IT security topic was a bit more prominent at the fair, with several discussion rounds and IT/SCADA security vendors exhibiting. This year the subject is a bit more hidden. Except for Industrial Defender […]

US-CERT put out three vulnerability notes related to the GE Fanuc issues discussed in Eyal Udassin’s S4 paper. Eyal works for C4 in Israel. These issues had been reported to vendor almost a year ago and had been closely coordinated with CERT’s in the US and Israel.
What makes these even more interesting than just another […]

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 […]

One of the common refrains heard again at ISA Expo is that IT firewalls are too difficult to configure and deploy. Several presenters, especially those promoting field security appliances, mentioned this, and it seemed to be generally accepted. While I’m all for simplicity and credit the vendors for trying to ease deployment, firewalls are simple […]

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 […]

 

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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 […]

There’s been a delay in releasing the final paper of the three part OPC Security Whitepaper series as the paper has been going through some extensive testing. Our initial testing was with a limited amount of servers as a large amount of OPC servers exist and we’ve started to build a list on the SCADApedia […]

I’m not going to pick a winner this early, but two factors will determine the winner if history is any guide.
1) The better management system
Check Point dominated the firewall market for a very long time primarily based on the easy of use and power of their firewall management. The difference between managing 20 Cisco PIX […]

We have written many entries in the past on Tofino, OPSAID, PatriotSCADA, AGA12 devices and other field security appliances. (Note: Field firewall is not accurate so we will be using Field Security Appliance from this point forward). A few people pointed out to me that we were remiss in not talking about the Innominate mGuard […]