Matt Wyckhouse: Testing ICS Firmware Security & Supply Chains
Release Date: 06/16/2020
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Emma Stewart joins Dale to discuss the 3 big OT & ICS security stories from the first quarter. They end by giving their win, fail and prediction for Q1.
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In this solosode episode Dale reviews the status of his three predictions from the Q1, 2 and 3 quarter in review episodes and answers a listener question.
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Dale is joined by Steve Pozza, CISA Section Chief of Operational Resilience, and Tom Millar, CISA Branch Chief of Resilience, to discuss some of CISA's security services for asset owners. They discuss: The Internet accessible attack surface enumeration and vulnerability scanning surface. Asset owners can buy products or services to do this. Why is the government doing this? What CISA is doing with this attack surface data? How is CISA measuring the success of this service offering? Other broadly available services and tools, the cybersecurity performance goals (CPG assessment) ~500 done in...
info_outline Engineering-Grade OT Security with Andrew GinterUnsolicited Response Podcast
Andrew Ginter published his third book this year: . Dale interviews Andrew on the book including: Who was the target reader that Andrew wrote the book for? Do (should) professional engineers lose their licenses for poor and dangerous cybersecurity design and deployments? The use of the term engineering grade, and how he defines it. Unhackable protection and safety controls as a major part of engineering grade. Unidirectional (one-way) network devices as the only security control listed as engineering grade. Is one-way from the enterprise network to the OT network engineering grade? Given the...
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This week is a Dale Peterson solosode. Updates and Announcements Dale provides updates about S4x24 ticket sales and announces the Women In ICS Security program and sponsor package. Main Topics Asset Inventory in Cybersecurity: Dale challenges the common security mantra "You can't protect what you don't know," using examples from both physical and cyber domains. He notes many of the comments on this week's article missed the main point, and he gives hints on the next two asset inventory articles. Legal and Regulatory Issues in Cybersecurity: Dale emphasizes the importance of domain expertise...
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info_outlinePrior to founding FiniteState, Matt's background was in a very large company, Battelle, and we spend the first third of the podcast talking about making the transition to the start up and lessons for others who might be making that move. We also discuss why, and how best, large companies spin out technology.
The utility asset owner funded Energy Impact Partners' investment in Finite State and what this will mean beyond the money.
The Finite State firmware assessment solution that includes creating a SBOM, looking for hardcoded credentials, looking for functions with security risks, .... and the result is a multi-faceted risk score and a lot of details.
We spend the last third focused on how the knowledge a tool or service like Finite State provides would be used and the business models around this. Is the industry ready for this? Who would pay for it? What if all the products are judged to be crap?