WingTip - Manufacturing and Processing Software Excellence
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Got an ABB DCS? Better get a WingTip Tofino to Protect it!
Dateline:  August 5, 2010, ABB OCS Products Recommends NO USEAGE of USB DEVICES.  

We just found out that ABB has recognized the Stuxnet malware is targeting automation systems, and has issued a bulletin recommending customers STOP using USB devices!   The text of the alert is below, but basically - you need a Tofino industrial firewall system!
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Water Utility Security and Change Management at Pacific Northwest Clean Water Association (PNCWA)

Larry Claussen presented on Water Utility Security and Utility Automation Change Management at the 2010 PNCWA Water Environment School.  The PNCWA Water Environment School is a three-day training opportunity for government/agency employees, industrial representatives and students working in the environmental field.  In addition to Emerging Technologies, course sections include Operations, Laboratory Practices, Collection System, Stormwater, Maintenance, Management/Supervision, Wastewater Basics, Safety and Health, and Source Control.

Topical summary:

Cyber Security Protection:  Leading-edge security technology in a form that makes it easy for plants to implement layers of defense throughout the control network, with no down time and no risk to the performance or reliability of the system. 

Change Management and Version Control:  Utilizing technologies to compare easily identify change and backup and restore automation programs including PLCs, HMIs, and many other devices providing version control, security and automatic backups.  

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About WingTip LLC

WingTip is a limited liability corporation founded in June of 2006. With locations in Washington, Oregon, California and Texas, the company offers best of breed software solutions in real time performance improvement, power usage and cost reduction, automation device change management and automation networking -- plus the software, training, technical support, and most importantly, the expert intelligence support to connect customers' goals to the appropriate software solution. WingTip offers the complete line of Schneider software -- including Ampla Performance Management, Power Management and Mine Performance Management; Citect Historian and Reporting -- plus AutoSave Automation Change Management and Byres Security Automation-Specific Security Devices.

WingTip serves customers throughout industries that include oil and gas, petrochemical and petroleum refining, food and beverage, pharmaceutical, pulp and paper, power generation and utilities, metals and mining, water/wastewater, manufacturing, and many other vertical industries. WingTip has served manufacturing companies throughout the Western U.S., Western Canada and the Oceania region (Australia, New Zealand and Indonesia). For more information on the company's product and service offerings please visit the web site at http://wingtipllc.com/Software/About-WingTip.html.


 
 
And in this corner - IT versus Control Engineering

IT Security and the Plant Floor

A few months ago, while attending a conference on “Cybersecurity for Process Control,” we heard a question from a very smart network engineer at Cisco that got us thinking.  He asked: “Why not just apply the already developed practices and technologies from information technology security to plant floor security— isn’t that good enough to solve the problem?”  A week later, an IT security specialist said: “None of this would be a problem if those plant floor people just used proper security policies.  What’s wrong with them?” Both of these questions are valid.  In the dozens of industrial cybersecurity incidents we’ve investigated over the past five years, had the facility followed good IT security practices in network design, password handling, and access controls, virtually none of the problems would have occurred.  So why don’t we just deploy the standard IT practices for our process control systems and stop making such a big deal of plant floor security?  Are process engineers so stupid, lazy, or stubborn that they won’t just do what IT says?  Process engineers are certainly not stupid, lazy, or stubborn (OK, there are a few exceptions).  Certainly some don’t deploy the proper IT security measures because they don’t understand them, but most hesitate because they sense that somehow many IT practices don’t mix well with the plant floor environment.  And they’re correct, for four very good reasons.  
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