Do we get stickers?
"Stuxnet Inside!"
America's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) wants to take a hand in addressing the SCADA industry's chronic insecurity, by building a test bed for industrial control systems. The Reconfigurable Industrial Control Systems Cybersecurity Testbed is only in its earliest stages. According to this RFI, the …
It's not connected to TehIntraWebTubes.
Dial-up connections & dial-back modems work wonders.
Dial up to system, login & password, remote system signs out & dials back the telephone number assigned to the login & password with an encrypted connection, and asks for another password.
Most SCADA kit only requires ASCII text ... 9600 baud works nicely. I use USR 19.2 modems.
The fucking morons using TehIntraWebTubes for this kind of thing have absolutely zero clue about system security.
Ohh you've missed a generation.
In between there was OPC, OLE for Process Control. A grand plan to make everything interoperable... based on OLE and DCOM. Of course it didn't actually work and now there are dozends of companies adding trivial features like logging to those systems. Oh and guess what, DCOM has little security features, and the few it has are typically deactivated... meaning that you can not just control your special SCADA software, but probably also other OLE software on your system. OLE was one of the backbones of Windows back in the 1990s.
So sure, text based SCADA kit with 9600 baud would be much more secure, in fact you could even hang them onto a small Linux system running SSH for network access.... but that won't bring you flashy graphics you can watch on your iPad.
This is just unnecessary government interference with our companies constitutional rights as people and a waste of our taxpayers money. If the FREE MARKET demands SCADA security it will happen automatically, just like how every other health, safety, and environmental improvement over the last hundred years has been due to FREE MARKET pressure. Consumers are absolutely capable of being perfectly educated about every issue affecting every company they might patronize, including the importance of SCADA safety, so if they want it to be an issue companies will make it an issue. Or else some startup will gain a competitive edge over the monopolies that normally ruthlessly suppress startups just like the FREE MARKET MODEL predicts.
God dammit the fertilizer plant blew up again! Get some Federal Disaster Relief dollars down here right now, this is a national emergency.