Posted to News on 10th May 2011, 20:30
Best practices in cyber security for industrial control systems
Eric Knapp, the Director of Critical Infrastructure Markets for NitroSecurity, will present at the US Department of Homeland Security's Industrial Control Systems Joint Working Group 2011 Spring Conference on Wednesday, May 4 2011 from 16:15-17:00 CDT. Taking place in Dallas, Texas, the ICSJWG Conference will examine cyber security issues impacting critical infrastructure systems.
With threats propagating further into industrial control systems, maintaining situational awareness across the enterprise, ICS and SCADA networks is paramount. This requires the collection and normalisation of logs and events across IT and OT systems into a common taxonomy so that critical infrastructure operators can monitor industrial networks and detect threats and anomalies spanning multiple enclaves. In his session, titled Obtaining Situational Awareness Across Isolated Systems, Knapp will explore the best practices in data collection, normalisation and correlation in order to strengthen security and achieve true situational awareness in industrial networks.
NitroSecurity describes itself as a leader in security information and event management within industrial control systems, and has pioneered multiple advancements in ICS and SCADA security monitoring. This latest research, which involves the integration of operational and process management data into security information management systems, aims to improve the detection of new and more sophisticated 'Stuxnet-class' cyber threats.
