Jonathan Pollet from Red Tiger Security to present at Regional UTC Conference in San Antonio

The UTC South Central Region 7 Meeting will be in San Antonio, Texas on March 1st and 2nd. As usual, the UTC planning committee has built an agenda full of timely topics for utility professionals. The UTC web site for this event now contains the agenda details, as well as information relating to the hotel and logistics for the event.

We have been involved in UTC events since 2005, and we are excited to continue to play an important role in both regional and national UTC workshops and conferences. If you are planning on attending the south central regional meeting this year, stay around for the second day and join us for our recap of the 2011 year in review. 

Jonathan Pollet, from Red Tiger Security, will break down the recent cyber security incidents that have impacted SCADA and process control systems. This includes "2011 Hacking SCADA Systems in Review".  It is an eye-opening presentation for control system / SCADA administrators, IT Security professionals, and utility managers. Set your alarms for Friday morning so that you do not miss this highly educational presentation that will leave you with actionable things to do in 2012 to further harden your SCADA, telecommunications, and control system networks. 

Red Tiger Security Provides Cyber Incident Handling Training at NERC Workshop in Pheonix - March 7

We are pleased to annouce that we were selected as training partners with NERC for the 2012 year. Our first training event will be on March 7th in Phoenix at the Phoenix Convention Center:

100 N. 3rd Street
Phoenix, AZ, 85004
602-262-6225

Bob Canada is the NERC contact that is organizating the event, and he has informed us that the room is already at capacity and sold out. He is working with the Pheonix Conference Center to obtain a larger space. Please drop Bob a message if you are interested in attending. If you are already on the list, then we look forward to seeing you at the event. Contact us if you are interested in meeting up after the workshop.

SANS SCADA Summit in Orlando Recap

Based on the feedback forms from SANS, this year's North American SCADA Summit in Orlando was the best in the history of the event. It started with our 5-day SCADA Security Course, and we had the most students to-date with 58 registered students. Dan and I, with the help of the SANS staff, were able to ensure that every student had power and Ethernet drops, and everyone worked through the hands-on labs with limited technical difficulties. Some of the PLC and OPC labs suffered through heavy network traffic, so we'll need to bring even more gear next time, but in the end everyone was able to build their own SCADA systems and interact with the hardware we provided. Prizes were given out for the first students that wrote scrips to strobe the PLC outputs, and one student set the lights to "disco" mode, which complemented the music that carried over from the wedding party in the adjaccent room during one of the afternoon sessions.

With the summit starting strong from the heavily attended SCADA training, the rest of the summit kept the momentum going with excellent discussions and presentations. The INL crew stayed around after to offer the Basic and Intermediate free DHS training, and the latest version 2.0 of the Exposure to Closure theater event hosted by NERC was very engaging and thought-provoking.

The presentations and workshops that we provided at the summit will be available on the SANS web site, and they have also been uploaded here to the "Presentations" area of our web site. The hacking demonstrations and videos have been stripped out of the presentation when converting it to PDF, but if you are interested in the multi-media content, just contact us, and we can shoot you a link to that content as well.

Thanks to all that helped make this event a huge success!
Jonathan