Bash Shell Vulnerabillity – Security Threats to LINUX/UNIX Machine

A bug discovered in the widely used GNU Bourne Again Shell (Bash), the common command-line shell used in most Linux/UNIX operating systems and Apple’s Mac OS X. The command interpreter poses […]

Are You Still Using Windows Server 2003 in Your Industrial Control System (ICS) Environment

It is (will be) the end of Windows Server 2003 support from Microsoft. Starting from July 14, 2015 the following support will no longer available for this Operating System, there […]

Industrial Control System Reference Model

ICS Reference Model – IEC 62443-1 The term of reference model became popular in IT world since the introduction of Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model. The OSI model split the layers […]

Industrial Control System Security Guidelines

NIST SP 800-82 Executive Summary This document provides guidance for establishing secure industrial control systems (ICS). These ICS, which include supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems, distributed control systems (DCS), and […]

Industrial Control System Security Risk Management

ICS Security Risk Management – The Overview of Risk The Risk Management in Industrial Control System environment is playing critical role in assessing the security posture of the ICS environment […]

Optimization of Secure Control System Network and Business Network Segregation Architecture for Industrial Control System Cyber Security Assurance

Abstract – Nowadays, the evolution of Industrial Control System (ICS) environment from obsolete pneumatic control and proprietary platform into modern system with open protocol and common environment (e.g. Windows environment) […]

Industrial Control System as One of the National Security Asset

Many of our colleagues still thinking that the security in ICS environment is just about virus attack from removable media, or internet downloaded files, at least this is what I […]

IT Security and Its Implication to Plant Control System Integrity

Have we ever heard some attack targeted to some big companies by using email attachment + virus/trojan injection as the vector attack? How is about the awareness of our employees […]

Peer-to-Peer Communication with WirelessHART

Abstract The WirelessHART standard is the first open wireless communication standard for measurement and control in the process industries. It uses wireless mesh networking between field devices, as well as other innovations, to provide […]

Distributed Control System

DCS initially introduced to the public on 1975. There were two big companies in Automation Control Engineering, Yokogawa and Honeywell, those who introduced the Distributed Control System (DCS) in separate […]