XiaK (
http://security.xiak.be/en) or Center of Expertise for Industrial Automation in Kortrijk, Belgium is a research group of the Ghent University.
Recently (3 years ago), a new project was started concerning Industrial Security. Main topic: create awareness for implementing in-depth network segmentation and security by demonstrating old and new vulnerabilities on commonly used industrial devices.
These include the known problems on Siemens PLC’s or common switches and demonstrating sniffing, MitM etc …
But foremost, since the target audience is Belgium and the SME’s therein, the most used industrial hardware for this region is actually a trilogy of Siemens, Beckhoff and Phoenix Contact. All three are major and large OEM’s that (should) have security as one of their concerns…
