Walt Boyes interviewed Bjorn Gudehus of Bell Canada, who is both a security analyst and an automation professional, and who has a distinctive voice and opinion on this important question.

John Eidar Simensen of Institute for Energy Technology offered a methodology using Baysian Belief Networks for estimating the complexity of critical instrumentation and control systems. This is an ongoing project which may provide the first real metrics for complexity after years of trying.

Here is the link to an interview Garcia did earlier this week:

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Energy-Sector-in-Danger-of-Cyberattack/

Very interesting interview. In my opinion, Garcia does not spread FUD.

Our indefatigable blogger and functional security expert, Joe Weiss, was asked to provide written testimony for the record for the House Homeland Security Committee on Emerging Threats, Cybersecurity, Science and Technology hearings on the cyber security of the electric grid for today's hearing. We've posted his testimony in our white paper library, and will be publishing it as an article on ControlGlobal.com later today.

From the White House blog this morning:

From Ed Cone's KnowITAll blog:

Feds Failing Cybersecurity

by Ericka Chickowski

Well, tomorrow is the big day. It is Zero Day for Conficker, also called Downadup, and we're all trying to guess what the impact of this widely spread trojan will be.

If you're like me, you have already proactively scoured your computers with virus scans and removal tools. And you've kept up to date with the MS patch that is supposed to protect against the trojan.

Wurldtech and Shell have announced a global partnership to ensure cyber security for all of Shell's infrastructure around the world.

What does this mean?

Thanks to Bob Radvanovsky for noticing this post...

In his blog, http://criticalinfrastructure.blogspot.com/2009/01/us-dhs-secretary-napolitano-issues.html, Booz & Co. analyst Andrea Rigoni notes:

I posted yesterday over on The Big Yellow Book about the fancy new smartphone that the Secret Service and the NSA have made President Obama use instead of his crackberry...I mean, Blackberry.

It is a pretty fantastic device, with all sorts of security features...