MSI Adds Threat Expert Bill Hagestad to Team
MicroSolved, Inc. is proud to announce the addition of Bill Hagestad to the team. Bill is one of the most internationally recognized subject matter experts regarding the People’s Republic of China and her use of the computer as a weapon system.
Prior to joining MSI, Bill created the Red Dragon Rising website which is dedicated to the identification and analysis of foreign language cyber threats. He has authored numerous papers related to the People’s Republic of China and the cyber demagoguery that revolves around the Middle Kingdom. Bill literally wrote the book on Chinese cyber warfare ~ “21st Century Chinese Cyberwarfare”, which is available on Amazon.com. The international intelligence, law enforcement and military experience from the cyber realm that Bill brings to MicroSolved is a very welcome addition to MSI’s industry leading
capabilities offered to clients for more than twenty years.
“We are very excited about Bill joining the team and about his emerging role in developing new relationships and offerings for our clients.”, said Brent Huston, CEO of MicroSolved. “With our growth in the critical infrastructure markets in the last several years and our continued focus on bringing rational information security products and services to ICS asset owners, utilities, government agencies and banks/credit unions, Bill brings us significant additional threat intelligence and educational capabilities. After turning 20 years old last November, we wanted to position MicroSolved to bring new, even more valuable insights to our customers and the community – and that begins with deep knowledge about the global threat landscape.”, he added.
MSI Announces the Release of ProtoPredator for Smart Meters
Today, MicroSolved, Inc. is proud to announce the availability of their newest software product – ProtoPredator™ for Smart Meters (PP4SM). This tool is designed for smart meter manufacturers, owners and operators to be able to easily perform security and operational testing of the optical interfaces on their devices.
PP4SM is a professional grade testing tool for smart meter devices. Its features include:
- Easy to use Windows GUI
- Easy to monitor, manage and demonstrate testing to management teams
- Packet replay capability empowers testers to easily perform testing, verification and demonstrations
- Manual packet builder
- Packet builder includes a standards compliant automated checksum generator for each packet
- Automated packet session engine
- Full interaction logging
- Graphical interface display with real time testing results, progress meters and visual estimations
- Flexibility in the testing environment or meter conditions
The tool can be used for fuzzing smart meter interactions, testing protocol rule enforcement, regression testing, fix verification and even as a mechanism to demonstrate identified issues to management and other stakeholders.
ProtoPredator for Smart Meters is available commercially through a vetted licensing process. Licenses are available to verified utilitiy companies, asset owners, asset operators and manufacturers of metering devices. For more information about obtaining PP4SM or to learn more about the product, please contact an MSI account representative.
More information is available via:
Twitter: @lbhuston
Phone: (614) 351-1237 ext 206
Email: info /at/ microsolved /dot/ com (please forgive the spam obfuscation…) 
MSI Announces The Second Annual ICS/SCADA Security Symposium
COLUMBUS, Ohio October 9, 2012 - The second annual ICS/SCADA Security Symposium, to be held November 1 2012 in Columbus, is designed to serve as a level set for teams and organizations who are actively managing production ICS/SCADA environments. Once again, this full day session will include best practices advice, incident response, detection techniques and a current threat briefing focused on ICS/SCADA providers. Presenters will cover a variety of topics about what is working, what is not working so well in terms of information security, network protection and trust management. To learn more about the event and to see if you qualify to attend, please contact us via email (info<at sign>microsolved(<dot>)com) or via phone by calling 614.351.1237 ext 215. Chris Lay (@getinfosechere) is handling the invitee list for the event and will be happy to discuss the event with you in more detail. Attendance is free of charge, meals will be provided and a limited number of seats are still available if you qualify.
MicroSolved, Inc. Receives Patent For Information Security Tool
COLUMBUS, Ohio June 20, 2012 — MicroSolved, Inc. is pleased to announce that they have received a U.S. Patent (8,196,204 B2) on June 5, 2012, on technology components of their product HoneyPoint Security Server. This technology, known as “defensive fuzzing,” and the improvement mechanisms associated with it are a core component of creating self-defending implementations with HoneyPoint.
For more information, please access our press release.
MicroSolved, Inc. Receives BBB Center for Character Ethics Torch Award
COLUMBUS, Ohio June 11, 2012 — MicroSolved, Inc. is honored to announce that they are the recipient of the prestigious 2012 BBB Center for Character Ethics 18th annual Torch Awards for EthicalEnterprising℠. The recipients will be honored at the Torch Award Centennial Gala Luncheon, held at the Hyatt Regency Ballroom in downtown Columbus on September 6, 2012.
For more information, please access our press release.
MSI CEO Brent Huston Receives ISSA Senior Award
COLUMBUS, Ohio June 8, 2012 — MicroSolved, Inc. is pleased to announce that Brent Huston, CEO and Founder of MicroSolved, Inc., received ISSA’s International Senior Member Award, presented at the 5th Annual Central Ohio ISSA InfoSec Summit in Columbus, Ohio. Mr. Huston is the first member of the Central Ohio Chapter to receive this award.
For more information, please access our press release.
MSI Releases Free Tool To Expose Phishing
MicroSolved, Inc. is excited to release a new, free tool that provides a simple, safe and effective mechanism for security teams and administrators to run their own phishing tests inside their organization. They simply install the application on a server or workstation and create a url email/sms/etc. campaign to entice users to visit the site. They can encode the URLs, mask them, or shorten them to obfuscate the structures if they like.
For more information, please access our press release.
MSI Nominated For Innovation Award In Columbus, Ohio
MSI is proud to announce their nomination in the annual Innovation Awards, sponsored by TechColumbus, which recognizes outstanding achievements in technology leadership and innovation. HoneyPoint Wasp has been nominated for Outstanding Product for companies with 250 employees or less.
MicroSolved, Inc. is proud to be nominated in the Outstanding Product category. “It is an honor to be nominated for this award and to be recognized for our innovations. HoneyPoint Wasp has helped many organizations and we look forward to being surrounded by our peers, colleagues and mentors to learn if we will be named for Outstanding Product,” commented Brent Huston, CEO and Security Evangelist.
For more information, please access our press release.
MSI Announces The Ohio SCADA Security Symposium
The Ohio SCADA Security Symposium, to be held on November 1, 2011 in Columbus, Ohio, is designed to serve as a level set for teams and organizations who are actively managing production SCADA and Industrial Control System (ICS) environments in Ohio. A full one day session will include best practices advice, incident response, detection techniques and a current threat briefing focused on SCADA/ICS providers. Presenters will cover a variety of topics about what is working and what is not, in terms of information security, network protection and trust management.
For more information, please access our press release.
MSI Receives Award From (ISC)2
Brent Huston, Founder, CEO, and Security Evangelist graciously accepted the Community Star Award at the (ISC)2 Annual Congress on September 21, 2011. (ISC)2 is the world’s largest information security professional body and administrators of the CISSP®.
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Press Release: HoneyPoint Console 3.5 Launched
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