HP unveils security-monitoring appliance for SCADA systems
HP offering uses SenSage security-event management technology
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Ellen Messmer
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Network World
, 05/15/2007
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HP Tuesday plans to unveil a network-monitoring appliance that captures event data generated in systems-control and data-acquisition
networks to help energy-sector companies comply with federally required security standards that took effect this year.
The appliance, Trusted Compliance Solution for Energy (TCS-e), uses SenSage security-event management software to collect and analyze log data. According to HP and SenSage, TCS-e generates reports
related to the auditing that's now required under the Critical Information Protection standards of the North American Electric
Reliability Corporation. Those standards require energy-sector companies, including electric power companies and oil and gas
suppliers, to demonstrate a wide range of security controls, including security-event monitoring.
The TCS-e appliance makes use of HP's Atalla hardware to apply cryptographic operations when recording information from SCADA
networks to ensure confidentiality and non-repudiation of data. The HP encryption hardware has been certified under the federal
government’s Federal Information Processing Standards' FIPS 140-2 product-testing program.
HP’s SCADA systems are widely used to control electric-power transmission.
Jim Pflaging, president and CEO of SenSage, says TCS-e works by time-stamping SCADA transactions and uses the Trusted Log
and Analysis Manager to provide report generation.
The TCS-e starts at $75,000.
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HP's security applianceBy Anonymous on May 16, 2007, 6:30 amStarts at only $75k, what a bargain. Re: HP unveils security-monitoring appliance for SCADA systems.
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Only one problem with this solution...By Anonymous on December 15, 2008, 12:57 pmMany SCADA/control systems are out-of-band, often using serial linked connections. And...these sorts of solutions focus on the HMI-portion of the control system...
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