Security News > 2020 > July > Industrial Cybersecurity Firm Claroty Releases Open Source Database Parser
Industrial cybersecurity firm Claroty this week announced the availability of AccessDB Parser, an open source tool that allows researchers to analyze Microsoft Access database files associated with SCADA applications.
AccessDB Parser was initially developed to improve the scanning capabilities of Claroty Continuous Threat Detection's Application DB, which is designed to provide a non-intrusive way to identify and manage assets in OT networks by parsing configuration files and other artifacts associated with industrial control systems.
"Asked to share specific examples of issues that can be uncovered using the open source tool, Katz explained,"Project files usually contain important information about the SCADA environment, including what assets are in the network, what programs are those assets running, and some configuration data relevant to those assets.
"However, we discovered that many vendors such as Rockwell and Schneider, in some of their SCADA applications, are specifically using the AccessDB database format to store the information required for the project file. By providing an AccessDB parser we are actually helping the community to parse and extract the relevant information from those project files," the researcher explained.
Claroty has released the AccessDB Parser source code on GitHub and it has created a video showing the tool in action.