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Bob Radvanovsky SCADASEC Owner rsradvan at infracritical.com From jwhite at unilocusa.com Tue Jun 2 17:48:39 2009 From: jwhite at unilocusa.com (Jim White) Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 17:48:39 -0500 Subject: [SCADASEC] Who is driving regulations?
In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Unfortunately INL has become a pay for play organization in terms of getting products tested.
If a vendor can fund the testing, then it's done.
Otherwise INL can request testing funds from the DOE which is not often.
Basically they run on such a small funding level that they have had to sell their services instead of being an independent test lab.
Plus, as previously noted, the results are only available to the "client".
Not exactly what we need for independent testing Jim -----Original Message----- From: scadasec-bounces at news.infracritical.com [mailto:scadasec-bounces at news.infracritical.com] On Behalf Of Ismail, Asif (CSCIC) Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 1:19 PM To: scadasec at news.infracritical.com Subject: Re: [SCADASEC] Who is driving regulations?
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Of course you have to upgrade now to get that benefit but that's a different subject. -----Original Message----- From: scadasec-bounces at news.infracritical.com [mailto:scadasec-bounces at news.infracritical.com] On Behalf Of Jim White Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 6:49 PM To: scadasec at news.infracritical.com Subject: Re: [SCADASEC] Who is driving regulations?
Unfortunately INL has become a pay for play organization in terms of getting products tested.
If a vendor can fund the testing, then it's done.
Otherwise INL can request testing funds from the DOE which is not often.
Basically they run on such a small funding level that they have had to sell their services instead of being an independent test lab.
Plus, as previously noted, the results are only available to the "client".
Not exactly what we need for independent testing Jim -----Original Message----- From: scadasec-bounces at news.infracritical.com [mailto:scadasec-bounces at news.infracritical.com] On Behalf Of Ismail, Asif (CSCIC) Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 1:19 PM To: scadasec at news.infracritical.com Subject: Re: [SCADASEC] Who is driving regulations?
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The review mirrors what many industry analysts have concluded, said Jim White, vice president of critical infrastructure security at Uniloc.
"I think in general it's a private-sector responsibility," he said.