The final agenda can be found at www.realtimeacs.com There are several unique hallmarks of the conference:

• Discussions of actual control system cyber impacts
• The significant amount of discussion makes keeping a schedule almost impossible
• Many of the presenters are not recognizable as they are not the typical speakers – these are the control system cyber security experts.

Thursday September 22

High Points:

The final agenda can be found at www.realtimeacs.com There are several unique hallmarks of the conference:

• Discussions of actual control system cyber impacts
• The significant amount of discussion makes keeping a schedule almost impossible
• Many of the presenters are not recognizable as they are not the typical speakers – these are the control system cyber security experts.

Wednesday September 21

High Points:

Radiation from Japan is showing up in our food. Shouldn't we do something about it?

Through our Facebook feed we came across these pics - not released on major American news sites - of Japan's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant after the earthquake and tsunami.
http://cryptome.org/eyeball/daiichi-npp/daiichi-photos.htm

The industry uses the general term "threat information," but during more detailed discussions, it seems that the information companies seek is more like the traditional military concept of "tactical information."

Read this article and let us know if you agree.

It's Friday afternoon, and the week is winding down. I'm starting to think about packing it in. This ought to be the time to post something funny for "Out of Control" or more good news to follow up on Walt's last post.

Hey, it doesn't get much better than that. ISA sent this reminder to my email box this morning. Check it out. SIS training and free CDs. Sweet.

Each year the damage to critical infrastructure
from network incidentsand cyber attacks is measured
in the billions of dollars.

Traci Purdum, senior digital editor, talks
to Eric Byres, chief technology officer of Byres
Security Inc., to understand the risks and learn
how to mitigate them.

Process plant safety used to be relatively simple. A regulatory control system was in charge of the process. A completely separate safety system controlled all safety-related process areas, and a security system controlled plant access. Things are a bit more complicated now because process plant safety must encompass cybersecurity. 

“My co-presenter, William (Butch) Taggart from Murphy Oil could not be here, because he’s cleaning up the damage Murphy Oil suffered from Hurricane Ike, and his own house,” said Emerson’s Sean McCormack, of the Emerson Hydrocarbon and Energy Industry Centre, in Calgary, Alberta, “so I’m going to do the presentation for both of us.”