http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/12/ge_patches_gap_in_capabilities_with_infosec_buy/
By Richard Chirgwin
The Register
12 May 2014
Years after the infosec world noticed the chronic insecurity of SCADA kit,
industrial giant GE has decided it needs to improve its in-house
capabilities by announcing that it's to acquire Wurldtech.
Founded in 2006, Wurldtech's product portfolio, sold under the Achilles
brand, includes a test suite and industrial firewall software. It's also
got a service operation under which it evaluates device communication
looking for troublesome behaviours.
The test suite is based on hardware designed to sit between the control
system and the target industrial device – stuff like SCADA, distributed
control systems and smart meters – firing off test traffic to detect
vulnerabilities as well as other faults. It covers Ethernet, Foundation
Fieldbus, Modbus IP, OPC UA and Profinet IO systems.
The Achilles Threat Intelligence Software is designed to add an
industrial-network wrinkle to the more prosaic business of network
protection. Since industrial plant managers really dislike being told to
take their systems down so the IT crowd can apply a patch, ATIS instead
lets the user wrap up a system in extra security when a bug of
vulnerability is published, letting the patching happen later.
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