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SCADA isn't exactly mainstream technology. It's used primarily in factories. Having worked in industrial automation areas for quite a while I'd estimate that
by motters 16y ago
SCADA isn't exactly mainstream technology. It's used primarily in factories. Having worked in industrial automation areas for quite a while I'd estimate that the number of people doing security testing on Siemens PLCs is a very small community.
- tptacek 16y agoIt is very much a mainstream software security research topic.
- marshray 16y agoI'd estimate that the number of people doing security testing on Siemens PLCs is a very small community Right, and how big was it in 2008? And how many of them do you suppose were also committing to OpenBSD's network stack in 2000-2001?
- tptacek 16y agoIt was big in 2008, Marsh. We're not a SCADA specialty firm, and we ended up doing SCADA-related work in 2008, and in 2007, and in 2006. One of my BigCo enterprise clients hired a network security guy --- network security, not software --- from a pure-play SCADA software security consultancy.
- marshray 16y agoThat's interesting. I'm not sure exactly how critical the absolute size of SCADA security in 2006 is in the question of evaluating the magnitude of the coincidence. It almost seems like something @alexhutton's could plug into one of his Bayesian models.