Tales From the Road: When the City Library Can Access the SCADA Network, It’s Time to Rebuild
10.06.22DirectDefense conducted cyber penetration tests for a municipality and found some significant gaps within the SCADA network.
10.06.2210.06.22Author: Bethany Kozal
10.06.22
Tales From the Road: How Secure is Your API?
08.17.22How We Were Able to Alter API Settings that Control Energy Production During a recent security assessment of an Application Programming Interface (API) that dynamically manages the energy resources for a large energy utility and allows external client devices to communicate with end devices that sit behind the API server, DirectDefense was able to gain… Read more »
Tales From the Road: Who’s in the Driver’s Seat of Your Physical Security?
07.27.22DirectDefense conducted a physical security test at a utility company and was able to have their run of the business – and a Tesla.
Tales From the Road: BESS and SCADA Network Assessment — Is Your MQTT Traffic Secure?
07.13.22DirectDefense assessed the security of MQTT traffic – the transfer of data to a SCADA system, ultimately controlling critical infrastructure.
Apex Labs – DirectDefense’s Greg Leonard to Instruct SANS Institute Secure DevOps Course
06.01.22Students will learn the fundamentals of DevOps and how DevOps teams can build and deliver secure software. In a time when the drive for technology efficiencies has left security in the dust, organizations focused on developing code are now starting to realize the true importance of what secure DevOps means. DevOps security or DevSecOps is… Read more »
Tales From the Road: What Effective Endpoint Security Looks Like
04.20.22Well-configured endpoint security is critical to protect against a ransomware attack or a security breach, and requires some extra attention.
Tales from the Road: The Anatomy of Password Attacks
03.16.22It’s time to rethink your password policy to prevent modern password attacks. If you think your company’s policy of requiring passwords to have a minimum length of eight characters, in addition to other complexity requirements, is sufficient to effectively prevent modern password attacks, think again. Our client, a global corporation with business units in more… Read more »
Tales From the Road: Got Critical Infrastructure?
03.08.22Avoid these three pitfalls that are inherent to most SCADA systems that manage critical infrastructure. A multinational corporation enlisted the services of DirectDefense to perform a security assessment of the organization’s newly-developed battery energy storage control (BESS) that would enable the company’s vendors and integrators to manage the voltage and power output for massive batteries.… Read more »
