UPDATE: 6:30PM, Dale
Final Thoughts
PCSF is not perfect, but it is my favorite event in the control system security space by far. One main reason is the number, variety and quality of attendees. The lunch, evening, break discussions were highly interesting and even three days had me scrambling to talk with all the people I’d like [...]

UPDATE: Next day, Dale Peterson
I missed the Waterfall Solutions Unidirectional Connectivity presentation but caught up with them at the evening exhibit. They have a product that through hardware, I heard the term diode and optical communications, only allows one way communication. Hence they use the term unidirectional. It is an interesting concept that could be [...]

Vulnerability Disclosure Panel
See Digital Bond’s Take On Vulnerability Disclosure
Ted Angevaare of Shell is only interested in sharing any vulnerabilities with the vendor. Not a coordination center, not any public disclosure.
Nate Kube of Wurldtech does not believe in widespread dissemination of control system vulnerability information.
Art Manion of CERT/CC believes there needs to be a public record [...]

We had the SCADA Honeynet attached to a wireless access point at the PCSF Annual Meeting March 6 and 7 in Atlanta, GA. PCSF attendees were encouraged to connect to it to check out the realism of this simulated PLC target and attack it as much as they desired. Of course, others connected simply looking [...]

PCSF finished up on Thursday morning with some group activities led by Brian Mason and Joann Byres. We worked at tables on evaluating the solutions discussed at the event. What we thought was of value and what was missing. Then these results were presented to all of the attendees. I missed most of the table [...]

Update: Day two details have been added.
Today is Solutions Day with four tracks. Nate Kube and I are presenting the Achilles Controller Certification from 10 - noon.
LOGIIC
First up for me is the Project LOGIIC presentation. I am lying in wait for Q & A when I will ask again how the [...]

Of course a lot of the value of attending a conference is in the break and reception discussions. Here are a few items:

I finally cornered a very popular Joe Weiss to find out what he will be doing at his new company Applied Control Solutions. Joe will be supporting industry and government control [...]

We are off and running . . . I’d estimate about 150 attendees (officially 200 registrants) and a quick poll showed about 75% are first time PCSF attendees. Nice to see so many fresh faces and asset owners.
This PCSF event is taking a different approach in focusing on ‘solutions’. Looking at the agenda it has [...]

I’m up in Atlanta this week at the PCSF annual meeting, and I will be semi-liveblogging the next three days.
A lot of attendees came in early to participate in some pre-meetings. The DHS Control Systems Security Program Vendor Forum had a closed door all day meeting that was well attended. This group also holds monthly [...]

In his S4 comments, Ty Bodell suggested we have the SCADA Honeynet live at S4 2008 so attendees can see it, hack it or otherwise interact with it. We thought why wait until next January, so the SCADA Honeynet will be available via a wireless access point at the PCSF annual event in Atlanta next [...]