Tag: Scada

Executive Q&A: Adam Powers, CTO

As CTO of Lancope, Adam Powers is a leading innovator in the development of flow-based network and security monitoring solutions. He possesses over a decade of operational and engineering experience in enterprise IP security technologies, including tenure as a Sergeant with the U.S. Marine Corps.                           Major IT Trends Facing Today’s Enterprises 1.      What are the major IT trends that will affect enterprise network management and security in the future? The following three trends have already begun to make quite an impact on enterprise networks, but I believe their impact will continue to grow over the coming years. IT Consumerization:… READ MORE

Utilities: You Should Be Using NetFlow to Monitor Your SCADA Environment

When our new CEO Mike Potts came on board almost a year ago one of the first technology trends he asked me about was the applicability of Lancope's flow analysis technology in the utilities sector. He wanted to know how we fit into environments that have NERC requirements. The inevitable conversion of traditional analog power grid tech to an IP-based SmartGrid makes the utilities sector an obvious target for a company like Lancope. IP-based SCADA networks are extremely easy to baseline and ideally suited for flow-based anomaly detection. So I spent a few weeks catching up on NERC-CIP and talking… READ MORE