The purpose of the Process Control System Forum (PCSF) is to accelerate the design, development, and deployment of more secure control in legacy systems. PCSF participants include international stakeholders from government; academia; and industry users, owner/operators, and systems integrators; and the vendor community. The PCSF is an open, collaborative, and voluntary forum that will leverage and unify the experience, capabilities, and contributions of these stakeholders through meetings, interest groups, and working groups to develop and adopt common architectures, protocols, and practices.
Brian Isle led the SCADA Cyber Security Requirements Working Group (SCySAG) for PCSF. The goal of SCySAG is to provide assistance in the development and adoption of the best possible next generation of self administered tools and methodologies for the assessment of the cyber security readiness of control systems. These systems are used in manufacturing, industrial, energy, and utilities. Specifically, SCySAG will publish and publicize methodology and tool requirements information, as well as objective data about available tools and methodologies. The drive behind this effort comes because existing self assessment methodologies aimed at traditional IT environments do not adequately meet the needs of the SCADA environment. The SCADA community is interested in creating and owning the part of this process that is unique to their environment.