Last week I attended, presented and tweeted at the Dept of Energy Cybersecurity For Energy Delivery Systems Peer Review. The idea is DoE funds all these research projects, and they would like a group of owner operators and other industry guru’s to help determine if the projects will help secure the energy sector’s critical control [...]

Last week I went to Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to assist them with Portaledge. The Department of Energy thought it would be a good idea to include Portaledge output in PNNL’s National SCADA Test Bed Real-Time Security State Visualization Project, I hope they find a good acronym or project name for that. When I arrived [...]

Last week in Chicago the Energy Sector Roadmap Working Group had a two-day workshop to hear about the current control system research efforts and how it will or will not help meet the Roadmap milestones. This event was a bit different because it was an input event where the Working Group was gathering information as [...]

 

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Many of you are familiar with the Roadmap to Secure Control Systems in the Energy Sector that was created by a private industry / government team. To support roadmap implmentation the team then created the Interactive Energy Roadmap that maps research and other industry efforts to strategies in the Roadmap.
Now the Energy Sector Control Systems [...]

I attended OSIsoft’s DevCon 2008 this week. While parts of the conference seemed to be more marketing than technology, there was some good information that I will be able to use for the Portaledge project. The most interesting talk was from Shane Hansen and Ken Rohde of Idaho National Laboratory (INL).
The presentation started [...]

We are thrilled to announce that Digital Bond was one of five companies selected for negotiation of awards of up to $7.9 million in DOE funding to develop and integrate technologically advanced controls and cyber-security devices into our electric grid and energy infrastructure.  Our project is titled Cyber Security Audit and Attack Detection Toolkit and [...]

After two days the group working on control system security identified two potential Priority Research Directions (PRD’s). These were written up in a one page quad chart, and now a smaller team is writing them up in the DoE format for funding consideration.
The organizers brought in a few speakers to get the group thinking; Steve [...]

Today and tomorrow I’m participating with about 150 others in the Dept. of Energy’s Cyber Security Research Needs for Open Science Workshop, and a significant portion of this is related to control system research needs. The workshop is sponsored by Office of Science (Advanced Scientific Computing Research) and Office of Electricity Delivery & Energy Reliability.
The [...]

CAVEAT: Read the document. There is a lot of good stuff, I’m just nit-picking things that drove me crazy upon first glance.
While there is no question that the Roadmap to Secure Control Systems in the Energy Sector is an impressive effort led by some of the thought leaders in SCADA Security, some of the timing [...]