from SANS NewsBites:
SANS NewsBites Vol. 7 Num. 45
http://www.sans.org
HOMELAND SECURITY AND GOVERNMENT SYSTEMS SECURITY
--US House of Representatives Holds Joint Hearing on SCADA System
Vulnerabilities (October 18 2005) The Homeland Security Committee of the US
House of Representatives is holding a joint hearing (of two Subcommittees)
on vulnerabilities in SCADA systems this afternoon (October 18). SANS
Director of Research, Alan Paller, has been invited to testify along with
Andy Purdy from the Department of Homeland Security, representatives of
Sandia and Idaho National Labs and Bill Rush of the Gas Technology
Institute. The testimony will illuminate the significant threat to electric
power and other critical industries that unprotected SCADA and other digital
control systems pose.
http://homeland.house.gov/release.cfm?id=420
SANS (Paller) Testimony:
http://www.sans.org/info/901
GAO Report on the growing SCADA threat:
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d04354.pdf
[Editor's Note (Paller): Critical infrastructure asset owners and technology
suppliers engaged in SCADA or DCS security should keep track of the SCADA
Security Summit, being arranged by private asset owners and researchers and
British and US government agency personnel. The goal is to find the
technologies that actually work and develop consensus procurement language
that will allow buyers of SCADA equipment to ensure their suppliers are
delivering the most secure systems possible. Send an email to [email protected]
with the subject SCADA Summit (and your name and company and role in SCADA
security) and we'll send you the early information about the Summit.]
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