More on wireless in the control system space
This is common theme for me.
Perhaps I should state my feelings clearly: “If you depend on wireless in a control system environment, you are friggin’ crazy!”
A few weeks ago, I wrote about a SCADA tool from Conlab called U.C.ME.
This tool touts two-way SMS management of your infrastructure! Sweet, eh?
Now, I wrote Conlab but haven’t heard anything meaningful back. Err… Well, I did. I got a quippy email… “You said you emailed us, but you never did.”
Well, I have tried again, and to no avail.
Looking at the product’s material, they seem to be referencing a company ControlSee. I’ll contact them. Perhaps Conlab is just a reseller? Who knows.
I wrote Conlab, who I thought was the product creator, to ask them what kind of authentication they are doing, and how they are preventing simple things like replay attacks.
Crickets.
Google alerts just tossed me this:
“Imagine you could speak to your SCADA system… Send a text message to your SCADA system.”
More talk of controlling your infrastructure through remote access.
Zero talk of configuration and control of access.
Conlab, ControlSee, whoever, for the love of god and all that is holy, if you have any information on this, please send it to me. This kind of stuff keeps me up at night.
Bill