Register to enter iPad
drawing
BETHESDA, Md., Oct. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- SANS
Institute is asking those who work for SCADA and other control
systems operators to take a 10-minute survey to reveal the level of
awareness system operators have around cyber risk, their attempts
to manage that risk, and how their efforts are working out so
far.
"We suspect that the system operators taking this survey will
have a high level of awareness given all the news of Stuxnet and
its predecessors," says Deb
Radcliff, executive editor of the SANS Analyst Program.
"We're also hoping to learn from the experiences of SCADA operators
and pinpoint the areas that need the most attention."
The survey, sponsored by ABB industrial systems, Industrial
Defender, and Splunk, aims to take this information to help push
improvements in an industry where the systems are so sensitive that
patching is rare and logs are often not natively generated. Yet
these same systems are opening vulnerable connections to the grid,
the Internet and even to hand-held devices.
"Control systems cyber assets represent valuable infrastructure
targets to attackers, and they require protection from the outside
and on the inside. With the proper industry response, this
survey and subsequent paper will serve as a basis for what we have
been doing and what we should be doing to protect these critical
assets," says Matthew Luallen, a
senior SANS Analyst and SCADA / process control system expert who
teaches on this subject at DePaul
University.
The survey will be open until December
18. Results will be released during a webcast held on
February 20, 2013 at 1 PM EST. Those who register for the webcast will
be among the first to receive an advanced copy of the published
results paper developed by Mr. Luallen.
Not only will respondents help shape industry practices, they
can also register to be entered into our iPad drawing! Follow
this survey link to begin:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2013_SANS_SCADA_Survey
About SANS Institute
The SANS Institute was established in 1989 as a cooperative
research and education organization. SANS is the most trusted and
by far the largest source for information security training and
security certification in the world. In addition to world-class
training, SANS offers certification via the ANSI accredited GIAC
security certification program. SANS offers a myriad of free
resources to the InfoSec community including consensus projects,
research reports, newsletters, and it operates the Internet's early
warning system—the Internet Storm Center. At the heart of SANS are
the many security practitioners in varied global organizations from
corporations to universities working together to help the entire
information security community.
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SOURCE SANS Institute