In the past… once or twice… I’ve scrapped with Joe Weiss over issues.
Yesterday, Joe got up on a stage at RSA in SF and told people some truth.
Wednesday, computer-security experts who recently re-examined the Bellingham incident called its victims the first verified human causalities of a control-system computer incident. They argue that government cybersecurity standards currently under debate might have prevented the tragedy.
“I’ve logged over 90 incidents in all industries worldwide,” said Joe Weiss, managing partner at Applied Control Solutions, speaking at the RSA Conference in San Francisco. “The damage ranges from significant equipment failure to deaths.”
…and even more impressively…
“Until eight years ago, my whole life was making control systems usable and efficient, and, by the way, very vulnerable,” Weiss said. “It is exactly what you will find today in many, many industrial applications. This isn’t just 1999. No, this is June 2008.”
Damn Joe.
Well said on the first, and truly a class act on the second.
Thanks.
Muchly.
[tags]RSA2008, Joe Weiss, Applied Control Solutions, SCADA security[/tags]
