Show Notes
“You can simulate power. You can simulate the data that's on the network. You can replay information. That's a very controlled environment. But using the real equipment…it’s the little idiosyncrasies of the systems themselves that you don't get in a very extremely controlled environment. In what the RACICS program was, being able to test out these systems in a mostly controlled environment, but also having the small idiosyncrasies of hey that system doesn't work exactly the way we think it did”. -David Patrick Emmerich
David Patrick Emmerich, the Principal Cyber-Physical Range Architect at the University of Illinois, joins us for this episode of Hack the Plant. We’re here to talk about RADICS, a DARPA project - for which David built automated data collection, and set up simulations and testing. What kind of incident response plan is needed for OT in an industrial environment? Join us to learn more.
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