August 20, 2008 -- Mu Dynamics announced a joint presentation and demonstration with ABB and Digital Bond at PCSF 2008 on Aug 27. Mu Dynamics director of technical marketing will moderate the presentation “When Good Traffic Goes Bad - When Is Application Traffic Too Much?”, and will be joined by Daniel Peck, Offensive Security Researcher at Digital Bond and Kevin McGrath, Scientist at ABB. The three experts will discuss the result of their research including how too much traffic to one service undermines or degrades another service operating on the same device, and how malformed packets propagate across protocols and cause undesirable and unpredictable side effects.
The demonstration and presentation details the importance of reliability and availability — in addition to security — in preventing costly downtime and security incidents in Critical Infrastructure deployments. Millions of manufacturers, governments and Department of Defense (DoD) critical assets and infrastructure agencies are actively converting their proprietary control network systems to IP-based networks. The transition from a homogenous Critical Infrastructure or Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system exposes a former proprietary network to a much larger possible attack surface.
“ABB puts a premium on its products delivering the leading reliability, availability and security baseline in our customers’ networks,” said Kevin McGrath. “To proactively build products that withstand all levels of real-world traffic, we must test both prior to shipment, and during deployment. ABB’s use of the Mu-4000 Service Analyzer throughout our software development lifecycle helps us model real world traffic, understand service response time weaknesses and adverse side-effects. It answers questions such as “if a system is being overloaded by one type of service-level traffic, what is the effect on other unexpected traffic to that system’s processes?”
WHO:
Thomas Maufer, director of technical marketing at Mu Dynamics.
Daniel Peck, Offensive Security Researcher, Digital Bond
Kevin McGrath, Scientist, ABB
WHAT:
"When Good Traffic Goes Bad: When Is Application Traffic Too Much?"
The high-level goal of this presentation is to educate the attendees at this security-focused conference to be more aware of the broader context around security--namely reliability and availability--all of which can cause service degradation or downtime, undermining safety systems or control systems that employ COTS and/or IP-based networking components. The session covers:
intentional malicious attacks or simply overloading a link. When do ill effects set in?
WHEN:
Weds. August 27 - 8:00 - 9:15 a.m. PST
WHERE:
Process Control Systems Forum (PCSF) - 2008 Annual Meeting
Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines
La Jolla, CA
Aug 25 - 29, 2008
About PCSF
The PCSF is an open, collaborative, voluntary forum of international stakeholders from government; academia; industry users, owner/operators, and systems integrators; and the vendor community. The list of companies represented through the Forum participants is a constantly growing example of the variety and quality of collaborative input.
About Digital Bond
Digital Bond is a control system security research and consulting practice. We have decades of security experience from the National Security Agency (NSA), National Labs, large asset owners and leading security equipment providers.
About ABB
ABB is a leader in power and automation technologies that enable utility and industry customers to improve performance while lowering environmental impact. The ABB Group of companies operates in around 100 countries and employs more than 115,000 people.
About Mu Dynamics
Mu Dynamics proactively eliminates the high cost of service, application and network downtime. Mu’s solution automates a systematic and repeatable process that identifies hard-to-detect sources of potential downtime within IP services, applications, and underlying networks. The award-winning Mu solution is deployed at more than 100 locations, primarily at leading global service providers, cable operators and network product vendors. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Mu is backed by leading venture capital firms that include Accel Partners, Benchmark Capital, DAG Ventures and Focus Ventures.
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