Security News > 2020 > December > Open Source Tool Helps Secure Siemens PCS 7 Control Systems
Industrial cybersecurity company OTORIO has released an open source tool designed to help organizations harden Siemens' SIMATIC PCS 7 distributed control systems.
According to the cybersecurity firm, the script is designed to assess the security configuration of the SIMATIC PCS 7 OS client, OS server and engineering station.
It collects data from various sources, including the Windows registry, Windows Management Instrumentation, running services, PCS 7 Web Navigator and Information Server configuration files, RsoP, and security policies related to passwords.
The data is then analyzed based on OTORIO's research into PCS 7 DCS and security recommendations from Siemens documentation.
"Once an attacker has a network with PCS 7 in his sights, he really does not have a better way to impact the network, other than to exploit the PCS 7 itself" he said.