Protecting Legacy ICS Systems with Application Whitelisting
Channel: Savant Protection
Date: 2013-12-11

Application Whitelisting was frequently mentioned during the ICS Cyber Security conference 2013 as an emerging technology to protect Industrial Control Systems. According to ICS-CERT*, application whitelisting is one of the top technologies for mitigating targeted Cyber intrusions.
Cyber attacks are no longer a matter of if, but when. More than 100,000 new malware files are examined daily by security vendors. Confirmed cases of Cyber espionage aimed at Industrial Control Systems are on the rise.

Protecting applications with whitelisting on Legacy Control Systems can be realized immediately and provides multiple benefits:
•Safeguards the "keys to the kingdom" from attackers
•Secures the path to downstream devices.
•Prevents negligent or malicious insiders from making changes.

What You Will Learn:
•Requirements for using Application Whitelisting in an ICS network.
•Deploying Application Whitelisting to block unknown and unauthorized executables from landing on workstations or servers, lockdown external storage device access (e.g. USB      drives) and monitor and inventory all executables on your endpoints.
•Protecting XP systems after the April, 2014 End of Life date and prevent "zero day forever" scenarios on these machines until they can be upgraded or replaced

Who Should Watch: CSO, CISO, Safety Directors & Officers, OT/IT Directors, Risk Managers and Operations Personnel