The I3P held an all day event highlighting some of the work from their 2 year, $8.5M project. I missed the morning session due to PCSRF / Field Device Protection Profile (blog on this later). I did get to attend two sessions in the afternoon:
Security Monitoring for PCS Networks

Three organizations presented and demonstrated their products.
Sandia [...]

In 2005 the I3P gave $8.5M to ten different organizations, mostly universities, to perform research on six SCADA security tasks. This is a two year project and some of the results are beginning to come out. You can download the papers on the I3P site.

I will highlight one of the ten presentations in the Critical Infrastructure track of the InfraGard National Conference each week. I’ve challenged the industry to come up with some new and exciting ideas and information. The Conference is in Washington D.C. , August 9 to 11.
What Does $8.5M in SCADA Security Research Buy?
In March, the [...]

DHS and NIST have provided the Institute for Information Infrustructure Protection (I3P) with $8.5M for a two year SCADA security research project. The research will be focused on six tasks.

Assess dependence on SCADA and its security
Account for the type and magnitude of SCADA interdependencies
Develop metrics for the assessment and management of SCADA security
Develop inherently secure [...]