Operation Hardened Buckeye

MSI is pleased to announce the immediate formation and availability of Operation Hardened Buckeye!

This special program is dedicated to assisting Ohio’s Rural Electrical Cooperatives.

MSI will set up aggregated groups of Electrical Cooperatives and perform services and offer tools to the groups en-masse at discounted rates, as if they were one large company. Essentially, this allows the co-ops to leverage group buying, while still receiving individual reports, software licenses and overall group-level intelligence & metrics.

MSI will offer a package consisting of the following:

  • External Vulnerability Assessment with aggregated executive level reports/metrics & individual technical detail reports
  • An aggregated Targeted Threat Intelligence engagement with individual notifications of critical findings and an aggregated intelligence report for the group
  • 3 HoneyPoint Agent licenses and a console license per co-op that participates
  • Deep discounts to individual co-ops who desire application assessment, internal vulnerability assessments, wireless assessments or other MSI professional services (including MSI::Vigilance & ICS Network Segregation Services)
  • Deep discounts for ongoing assessments and targeted threat intelligence as a service

Caveats: All assessments will be performed at the same time. Co-ops must each sign onto a common MSA. Each co-op will be billed for the total of the package divided by the number of participating co-ops. Co-ops must provide accurate IP address ranges for their external assessment.

This enables the co-ops to have a security baseline of their security posture performed, including aligning their current status against that of their peers. It also allows for each of the co-ops to deploy a HoneyPoint Agent in their DMZ, business network and control network for detection capabilities. The targeted threat intelligence will provide them with an overall threat assessment, as well as identifying individual targets that have either already been attacked or are likely to provide easy/attention raising targets for future attacks.

We will be holding a webinar for those interested in participating on Thursday, May 21, 2015. You can register for this event here. You can also download the flyer about the program here.

For more information, please contact Allan Bergen via the email below or call (513) 300-0194 today! 

Email: sales@microsolved.com

Newsletter Issues for November’s Take Five

Dear readers of Take Five with MSI,

Due to a problem with the mail delivery system for the newsletter, we are unable to send out the monthly newsletter before the end of the month. We have opened a trouble ticket with the provider, but they will not be available to assist us until next week, due to the holiday. 

We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you, in advance, for you patience. We love that you enjoy our newsletter and we hope to have it delivered to you shortly.

Please feel free to follow us on Twitter (@microsolved) for the latest security news, blog announcements and conversations.

Thanks again! 

ICS/SCADA Security Symposium 2014 Announced

For those of you who were wondering about our yearly event, the 4th annual ICS/SCADA Security Symposium has been announced!

The date will be Thursday, December 11, 2014 and the entire event will be virtual! Yes, that’s right, no travel & no scheduling people to cover the control room. YOU can learn from right there! 

To learn more about the event, the schedule and to register, click here!

Save The Date: 2014 ICS/SCADA Security Symposium Dec. 11

This year’s ICS/SCADA Security Symposium will be held on Thursday, December 11, 2014. This year’s event will be a little different, in that we are opening it up to any organizations who are asset owners or manufacturers of ICS/SCADA components. That includes utilities, manufacturing companies, pharma, etc. If you are interested in ICS security, you can sign up for the event.

This year’s event will also be virtual. It will be a series of Webinars held on the same day in 45 minute blocks, with time for follow-on questions. We will also hold a Twitter Q&A Hour from 1pm – 2pm Eastern, and we will attempt to make all speakers available for the Q&A!

In addition, we plan to stand up a supporting website for the event, and release a number of materials, including podcasts, interviews and other surprises the day of the event!

We will be tracking attendance in the webinars and providing notes of attestation for attendees for the purpose of CPE credits. We hope this new format will allow folks who wanted to attend in the past, but either couldn’t make the physical trip to Columbus or couldn’t leave their positions to attend training the ability to join us.

More details, including speakers and topics, as well as schedules, hashtags and other info will be released shortly. Thanks for reading, and we hope to see you on 12/11/14!

Twitter Games from MicroSolved

If you haven’t followed us on Twitter (@microsolved) yet, be sure to do so. Here are a few reasons why you should look to our Twitter feed for more great content from MSI:

  • Ongoing curated news feeds of some of the most interesting and best information security news & event coverage
  • Discussions of emerging threats and significant issues around InfoSec
  • Pointers to free tools & resources to help your team protect your data & systems
  • Easy way to talk to us & engage in pro-bono Q&A sessions
  • AND NOW – 2 New Games a week:
    • Mondays will feature the “Hacker Challenge” – a weekly technically-focused fun activity or challenge (decrypt a secret, solve a puzzle, find something specific  across the net, etc.)
    • Thursdays will feature the “Throw Back Thursday Hacker Trivia” – weekly trivia contest focused on hacker, InfoSec and technology; with occasional prizes for the winners!

So, grab an account on Twitter or follow us there, and don’t just keep up to date, but talk to us. We want to hear your thoughts, the security challenges you are facing and anything that will help us serve your information security needs. Plus, we know reading log files and patching systems can get tedious, so we will try to mix in a little fun along the way! See you there!

TigerTrax Quick Dives Now Expanded with Data Lenses

Users of the TigerTrax™ Quick Dive service, our analytics and intelligence offering, have been very pleased with the new Data Lens features we have been offering to BETA clients thus far. The Quick Dive service offers short term monitoring of social media for specific forms of content and then canned analytics against the observed data. The Lens features offer several additional ways to slice & focus the analytics on specific areas of interest, such as:

  • Removal of specific terms or sentiment from the data set
  • Slicing of the data set to focus on specific terms or sentiment
  • Keyword analytics against the identified lists of URLs
  • “What if” visualizations to match scenarios

Enterprise license holders for TigerTrax will receive unlimited Lens work on their Quick Dive data sets at no additional charge. Customers purchasing ad-hoc Quick Dives may purchase Lens work against their data sets at a small additional charge per Lens. Please discuss your needs with your account executive for details.

The Lens program will continue to be expanded and we are also looking at adding the capabilities into our Deep Dive offering and our Ongoing Monitoring offering. More on that later, as we continue to work through testing the processes with those data formats. The Lens programs for those offerings will remain in BETA, while Quick Dive Lens offerings move to production as of today and we are proud to announce their immediate availability to all TigerTrax Quick Dive clients.

Want to learn more about TigerTrax or any of the offerings we offer? Click here for an overview, and talk to your account executive for more info.

HPSS Training Videos Now Available

We are proud to announce the immediate availability of HoneyPoint Security Server training videos. You can now learn more about installing and using the Console, Agents, the HPSS Proxy and soon Wasp, HoneyBees and Trojans.

Jim Klun (@pophop)  put the videos together and will continue to build the series over the coming months. Check them out and give Jim some feedback over Twitter. Also, let us know what other videos you would like to see.

You can get access to the videos using the credentials provided to you with your HoneyPoint license. The videos, along with a brand new User Guide, are now available from the distro web site.

Thanks to all HPSS users, and we promise to continue to evolve HPSS and make it even easier and more powerful over the coming year. As always, thanks for choosing MSI as your security partner. We appreciate it and greatly value your input! 

Co-Op & Municipal Utilities Get Discounts in July

Attention Co-Op & Municipal utilities — MSI is offering discounts to your organizations on professional services (policy/process, assessments, pen-testing, etc.), lab services (device & AMR/AMI assessments, threat assessments, etc.) and HoneyPoint Security Server for the month of July. Book the business before July 31’st and have the work/implementation completed before December 31st of 2014 and you receive a discount up to 30% off!

Do you need pen-testing against your business network? Need web app assessments on billing or payment systems? Have a call for risk assessments, smart grid device testing or fraud testing against your meters and field gear? All of this and more qualifies!

Check out our ICS/SCADA specific services by clicking here!

Give Allan Bergen a call today at 513-300-0194 to learn more about our program. We truly appreciate the hard work and dedication that Co-op and Municipal utility teams do, and we look forward to working with you! 

CMHSecLunch is July 14th @ Tuttle Mall

Just a quick reminder to save the date for CMHSecLunch this month. It is July 14th at 11:30am at the Tuttle Mall Food Court. We are usually pretty close to the giant germ ball fountain, and the Tuttle event is usually pretty well attended. 

Come out and beat the summer heat, hang out, meet old and new friends and have some food.

We hope to see you there! 

As always, you can RSVP if desired (not needed) or learn more by clicking here. 

Bring a friend, attendance is FREE and open to everyone!