Re: SCADA
"R. DuFresne" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.security.firewalls.wizards |
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| Organization | sysinfo.com |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Chris Blask wrote: > > Daniel E. Hassler <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Forgive my ignorance but why is SCADA even allowed to run on a Windows host? IMHO - when industry insists (i.e. $$$ on the table) on secure alternatives can and will become available. > > > Many manufacturers have used Windows as an embedded component of SCADA devices such as Human Machine Interfaces (HMIs - the gadgets that produce the touchscreen management interface for operators). Moreover, industry has not insisted on secure alternatives in control systems, period. In fact, industry continues to be overwhelmingly resistant to any changes to their existing systems - reliability is many times more important to them as a group than security. Which again begs the question; why windows systems? Thanks, Ron DuFresne - -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ admin & senior security consultant: sysinfo.com http://sysinfo.com Key fingerprint = 9401 4B13 B918 164C 647A E838 B2DF AFCC 94B0 6629 These things happened. They were glorious and they changed the world..., and then we fucked up the endgame. --Charlie Wilson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFJ8NQDst+vzJSwZikRAjRKAJ9DPs1OpgPDsu+y26C5HXmXk+NfYgCfV1Fq tlEVRKNE3o6qU+WZ9WsS+Qs= =ri61 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----