[146458] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Arguing against using public IP space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Greco)
Sun Nov 13 21:24:43 2011
From: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
To: rbf+nanog@panix.com (Brett Frankenberger)
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 20:24:29 -0600 (CST)
In-Reply-To: <20111114011458.GA19365@panix.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> Sure, anytime there's an attack or failure on a SCADA network that
> wouldn't have occurred had it been air-gapped, it's easy for people to
> knee-jerk a "SCADA networks should be airgapped" response. But that's
> not really intelligent commentary unless you carefully consider what
> risks are associated with air-gapping the network.
Not to mention that it's not the only way for these things to get
infected. Getting fixated on air-gapping is unrealistically ignoring
the other threats out there.
There needs to be a whole lot more security work done on SCADA nets.
... JG
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