ScotlandIS Data

Join Scotlandis Cyber and Siker Cyber on 26th February for a practical demonstration on how an adversary can try to manipulate Industrial Control Systems to make them do something they shouldn’t, like to turn off the lights. 

Stuart Harwood, Global Assessments, and Tim Canning, Senior Consultant at Siker Cyber will give a demonstration consisting of a physical Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) running a small industrial control application apparently controlling a small process plant. The process plant is simulated to ensure all responses are realistic.  Connected to the PLC is a Human Machine Interface (HMI) workstation featuring a graphical representation of the process plant. The HMI is used by the Operations Engineer to control the process machinery, and to alter settings to change operational conditions.  There is a remote access facility to allow Maintenance Engineers to carry out work without the need to go to the site. There is also wireless communications connection that extends the network across open ground that cannot have a cable laid.

We will demonstrate a simple wireless attack to gain network access, which then allows pivot onto the HMI machine and control of the plant.  Following this, you will see an alternative attack option using the weakness inherent in legacy industrial communications protocols to force changes in operational conditions.

The Siker Cipher Maze Challenge results and prize giveaway will also be announced live at this event.

The quarterly S.E.L.F grouping provides a forum for software engineering leaders, CIO’s and CTO’s across the Scottish tech sector to share ideas and explore common challenges. The meetups also provide opportunities for informal mentoring and potential opportunities for joint working.

This event is exclusive to ScotlandIS members only.

We are delighted to invite you to the virtual launch of Scotland’s AI Strategy.

Full agenda for the event will be announced by end of February 2021.

Please register by 15 March 2021 to secure your place!

Where space, digital and climate technologies collide

Scotland is home to an incredible wealth of talent and expertise in space technology and has a burgeoning spaceport program. We’re also home to c4000 digital technologies companies.  When the two come together and utilise the data that’s available they become a force to be reckoned with when we look to tackle the current climate challenge.

Join us for two days to discover the very real, and active, relationship between these technologies and find out more about the innovation and emerging technologies and businesses that are leading the world, from Scotland.

We’ll be joined by Dr David Alexander of Rice Space Institute and Prof Bonnie J Dunbar a woman leading the space race who has flown on five Space Shuttle mission, including two dockings with the Mir space station.  As well as Prof Callum Norrie of the University of Edinburgh, Prof Jim Hansom of the University of Glasgow, Ecometrica, Space Intelligence, QuinetQ, SiteKit (Condatis) and many more.

If you’re interested in hearing more about the event, and to find out when tickets will be released please email Heather Donnelly