GE patches gap in infosec capabilities with Wurldtech buy

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/12/ge_patches_gap_in_capabilities_with_infosec_buy/

By Richard Chirgwin
The Register
12 May 2014

Years after the infosec world noticed the chronic insecurity of SCADA kit, 
industrial giant GE has decided it needs to improve its in-house 
capabilities by announcing that it's to acquire Wurldtech.

Founded in 2006, Wurldtech's product portfolio, sold under the Achilles 
brand, includes a test suite and industrial firewall software. It's also 
got a service operation under which it evaluates device communication 
looking for troublesome behaviours.

The test suite is based on hardware designed to sit between the control 
system and the target industrial device – stuff like SCADA, distributed 
control systems and smart meters – firing off test traffic to detect 
vulnerabilities as well as other faults. It covers Ethernet, Foundation 
Fieldbus, Modbus IP, OPC UA and Profinet IO systems.

The Achilles Threat Intelligence Software is designed to add an 
industrial-network wrinkle to the more prosaic business of network 
protection. Since industrial plant managers really dislike being told to 
take their systems down so the IT crowd can apply a patch, ATIS instead 
lets the user wrap up a system in extra security when a bug of 
vulnerability is published, letting the patching happen later.

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