Red Tiger Canada @ CANSEC

Red Tiger Canada will be in attendance at the largest security conference in Ottawa this coming week. CANSEC is the largest security and defence conference in Canada and once a year boasts some of the largest names in the security industry.

This year's event will showcase some of the dramatic leaps forward in the cyber security space and will include presentations from leaders in innovation and technology, including a keynote from DND's strategic research arm DRDC.

Registration can be found here

Come find us near the iXTROM booth on the main conference floor!

Red Tiger presenting at the Soldier Systems Technology Implementation Roadmap

I am very pleased to announce that Red Tiger Security will be presenting at the DRDC conference on Soldier Systems Technology Implementation Roadmap this coming Friday, June 3rd.

This is a amazing day-long event that will showcase all aspects of the SS:TRM project as well as various leaders in the defence of national security.

Find the agenda for the event here and register for the free event here.

_J

FPL Wind Farm Hack Disclosure Sloppy

The creator of the Florida Power and Light disclosure did a very sloppy job in trying to pull off that hoax. He uploaded generic HMI screens from a SCADA vendor that does not sell into the wind energy industry, cited the wrong type of control system components, used incorrect names for the facility, and even used graphics from a system that had German words on the HMI. The last time I checked, I don't think we have German system operators running wind farms in the US.

What seems puzzling to many of us in the SCADA indsutry is why would someone go through the process of disclosing such obvious incorrect and inconsistent information? SCADA Security leaks and vulnerabilities impacting critical infrastructure seems to be the new "shinny penny" that gets the media attention these days, so maybe it was done as a way to gauge how quickly it would be picked up in the media. Regardless of the intent of this, at least the lesson we can all learn is how important it is to guard sensitive information about SCADA and ICS systems. We should also as an industry do a better job of qualifying and confirming information disclosures.

Jonathan