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Industrial Control Systems (ICS) are physical equipment oriented technologies and systems that deal with the actual running of plants and equipment, include devices that ensure physical system integrity and meet technical constraints, and are event-driven and frequently real-time software applications or devices with embedded software. These types of specialized systems are pervasive throughout the infrastructure and are required to meet numerous and often conflicting safety, performance, security, reliability, and operational requirements. ICSs range from building environmental controls (HVAC, lighting), to systems such as the electrical power grid. With the increasing interconnectivity of ICS to the internet, the ICS can be an entry point into the organization's other IT systems.
Within the controls systems industry, ICS systems are often referred to as Operational Technology (OT) systems. Historically, the majority of OT systems were proprietary, analog, vendor supported, and were not internet protocol (IP) enabled. Systems key components, such as Remote Terminal Units (RTUs), Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), Physical Access Control Systems (PACs), Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs), closed circuit television (CCTV), fire alarm systems, and utility meters have become digital and IP enabled. OT systems use Human Machine Interfaces (HMIs) to monitor the processes, versus Graphical User Interfaces for IT systems. Most current ICS systems and subsystems are now a combination of Operational Technologies (OT) and Information Technologies (IT).
The Stuxnet, Duqu, Flame and Shamoon malware were specifically designed to target ICS and cause physical damage to the processes or equipment. Stuxnet "spoofed" the integrity of the uranium centrifuges and caused the centrifuges to overspin and self-destruct, while the operators console showed the system was operating within normal parameters. The Duqu malware looks for information that could be useful in attacking industrial control systems. Its purpose is not to be destructive; the known components are trying to gather information. The Flame malware looks for engineering drawings, specifications, and other technical details about the systems and records audio, screenshots, keyboard activity, and network traffic. The program also records Skype conversations and can turn infected computers into Bluetooth beacons which attempt to download contact information from nearby Bluetooth-enabled devices. The most recent malware attack, Shamoon, destroyed over 30,000 Saudi Armco work stations. Shamoon is capable of spreading to other computers on the network, through exploitation of shared hard drives. Once a system is infected, the virus continues to compile a list of files from specific locations on the system, erase and then send information about these files back to the attacker. Finally, the virus will overwrite the master boot record of the system to prevent it from booting as shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1: The Shamoon malware has the ability to overwrite the master boot record of a computer. Image credit: Securelist
In February 2013, Executive Order Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity was issued which requires the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to "lead the development of a framework to reduce cyber risks to critical infrastructure (the "Cybersecurity Framework"). The Cybersecurity Framework shall include a set of standards, methodologies, procedures, and processes that align policy, business, and technological approaches to address cyber risks. The Cybersecurity Framework shall incorporate voluntary consensus standards and industry best practices to the fullest extent possible.
While federal agencies have been required to meet stringent Cybersecurity standards for the traditional IT systems since the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) was passed in 2002, the same level of protection and analysis is just beginning to be developed for building control systems. Buildings are becoming increasingly reliant on technologies that allow centralized monitoring and control of multiple building systems ( Building Automation, Fire and Life Safety, Energy Management, Physical Security, Access Control, etc.), to assist in accomplishing design and operational goals. Because of the unique operating and configuration of building control systems, traditional IT processes such as continuous monitoring, host based scanning, and automated patch management can cause building control systems to fail or become non-operational.
This section will provide an overview of the current efforts underway with regards to policy, standards, guides, and tools to assist building owners and operators, designers, and constructors meet the Cybersecurity challenges.
Industrial Control Systems and Operational Technology
Within the controls systems industry, Industrial Control Systems (ICS) are often referred to as Operational Technology (OT). ICS are physical equipment oriented technologies and systems that deal with the actual running of plants and equipment, include devices that ensure physical system integrity and meet technical constraints, and are event-driven and frequently real-time software applications or devices with embedded software. These types of specialized systems are pervasive throughout the infrastructure and are required to meet numerous and often conflicting safety, performance, security, reliability, and operational requirements. NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 3 Appendix I defines ICS as:
"information systems that differ significantly from traditional administrative, mission support, and scientific data processing information systems. ICS typically have many unique characteristics—including a need for real-time response and extremely high availability, predictability, and reliability. These types of specialized systems are pervasive throughout the critical infrastructure, often being required to meet several and often conflicting safety, operational, performance, reliability, and security requirements such as: (i) minimizing risk to the health and safety of the public; (ii) preventing serious damage to the environment; (iii) preventing serious production stoppages or slowdowns that result in negative impact to the Nation's economy and ability to carry out critical functions; (iv) protecting the critical infrastructure from cyber attacks and common human error; and (v) safeguarding against the compromise of proprietary information."
The term ICS is used in its broadest sense which includes:
- Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (Energy, Water, Wastewater, Pipeline, Airfield Lighting, Locks, and Dams, etc.)
- Distributed Control Systems (Process and Manufacturing, etc.)
- Building Control Systems/Building Automation Systems
- Utility Management Control Systems
- Electronic Security Systems
- Fire, Life Safety, Emergency Management Systems
- Exterior Lighting and Messaging Systems
- Intelligent Transportation Systems
Within the Department of Defense, there are over 30 unique types of ICS as shown in Figure 2. There are an estimated 2.5 million unique ICS systems that are used in over 300,000 buildings and over 250,000 linear structures.
Figure 2: Examples of DoD OT and ICS Systems and Subsystems1
The majority of these systems were historically proprietary, analog, vendor supported, and used direct serial, and/or wireless connection, and were not IP enabled. The systems components such as Remote Terminal Units, Programmable Logic Controllers, Physical Access Control, Intrusion Detection Systems, CCTV, fire alarm systems, and utility meters have long equipment life spans, and are typically designated as Operational Technology (OT) and Real Property Equipment.
ICSs differ significantly from traditional administrative, mission support and scientific data processing information systems, and use specialized software, hardware and protocols. ICS systems are often integrated with mainstream organizational information systems to promote connectivity, efficiency, and remote access capabilities. The "front end" portions of these ICSs resemble traditional information systems in that they use the same commercially available hardware and software components. While the majority of an ICS system still does not resemble a traditional information system (IS), the integration of the ICS's "front end" with IS introduces some of the same vulnerabilities that exist in current networked information systems.
As these systems and components became digital and IP enabled, the interconnects to the organization network and business systems began to expose the organization to exploits and significant vulnerabilities. Typically, there was not a clear line of demarcation where one system started and one ended, for example a EMCS meter could be on the utility SCADA system, or on the buildings BAS. A comparison of IT versus OT systems is provided in the table below:
Table 1—IT vs. OT Systems Comparison
|Information Technology
|Operational Technology
|Process transactions, provide information
|Control or monitor physical processes and equipment
|Enterprise wide infrastructure and applications (generic)
|Event-driven, real-time, embedded hardware and software (custom)
|GUI, Web browser, terminal and keyboard
|Electromechanical, sensors, actuators, coded displays, hand-held devices
|CIO and IT
|Engineers, technicians, operators and managers
|Corporate network, IP-based
|Control networks, hard wired twisted pair and IP-based
|Supports people
|Controls machines
ICSs can have long life spans (in excess of 20 years) and be comprised of technology that while functional, do not have the same technology refresh cycle as the IT. This introduces two issues: first, depending upon the relative age and isolation of the system, there may not be a patch or upgrade path for components of the system, and second, attempting to patch the component or employing modern scanning methods might disrupt the system. ICSs have experienced complete system shutdown when an intrusion detection system (IDS) or host-based scanning system (HBSS) scan is performed on an otherwise operational ICS. For an ICS, updates should be delayed until after a thorough analysis of deployment impact has been completed. This might stretch out security update timeliness and require flexibility in security control compliance measurement and enforcement.
An ICS physical system can span many miles; for example, locks and dams, pipelines, electric transmission and distribution systems can have many non-contiguous components, and there are a number of protocols commonly used by ICSs to allow the devices to communicate both horizontally and vertically. A building use could use a number of protocols at the same time. Typical building protocols are:
- LonWorks
- BACnet
- Modbus
- Fox
These protocols were developed initially to ensure availability and reliability, and able to communicate down to the device level with small data transmission and verification. Many devices have embedded firmware with default passwords. The protocol organizations and vendors are now working to add additional security features on new systems while working on securing legacy systems.
Buildings can have a number of primary and secondary systems used to support the tenants and/or primary function of the building (office, hospital, warehouse, school, etc.).
Communications Network and Business Systems
The Communications Network and Business Systems include the Demarcation or Point of Entry where the external communications connect with the buildings internal network and include voice, data, video and multimedia information services, such as video conferencing and email. Typically the business systems are on a separate fiber high-speed backbone.
Building Management System (BMS)
The Building Management System provides automatic monitoring, interaction and management for electricity, ventilation, water supply, security and fire control to the building. A BMS typically manages the: Building Automation System (BAS), Electronic Security System (ESS), and the Fire and Life Safety System (FLS). For larger buildings and campuses, there will usually be a Building Operations Center (BOC), Security Operations Center (SOC), or Emergency Operations Center (EOC) that has engineering, O&M, security or emergency management personnel monitoring the BMS. In smaller buildings, there may only be a workstation and panels that alarm and report to an off-site BOC, SOC, or EOC.
Building Automation System (BAS)/Building Control System (BCS)
A building automation system (BAS) or Building Control Systems (BCS) is an example of a distributed control system. The control system is a computerized, intelligent network of electronic devices designed to monitor and control the mechanical, electronic, and lighting systems in a building. A building controlled by a BAS is often referred to as an Intelligent Building or a Smart Building.2
BAS core functionality keeps the building climate within a specified range, provides lighting based on an occupancy schedule, monitors system performance and device failures, and provides malfunction alarms (via email and/or text notifications) to building engineering/maintenance staff. The BAS functionality reduces building energy and maintenance costs when compared to a non-controlled building. The BAS typically consists of:
- Fire and Life and Safety (FLS)
- Physical Security and Access Control (PACS)
- Energy Management Systems (EMS), which includes Lighting Control
- Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC)
A typical BAS architecture with multiple protocols is shown in Figure 3.
Figure 3: Typical BAS Architecture
Electronic Security System (ESSS)
The Electronic Security System (ESS) is critical for providing a secure environment and protecting the safety of tenants. Elements include: Anti-theft Security and Alarm System, Electronic Control System, Physical Access Control System, Closed-Circuit TV Surveillance System. The ESS is typically monitored by security personnel in the SOC.
Fire and Life Safety System (FLS)
The Fire and Life Safety (FLS) system consists of the fire alarms, sensors, sprinklers, smoke purge, and exhaust fans, and is often connected to the BAS to shutdown HVAC, elevators, and other equipment. The FLS typically connects to the local fire department and alarms in the SOC and BOC. Traditionally, these systems were in separate conduits and cabling went from the control panel to the devices.
Power over Ethernet
A new technology, Power over Ethernet (PoE)3, is changing the traditional cabling process and operations of the BMS. PoE describes any of several standardized or ad-hoc systems which pass electrical power along with data on Ethernet cabling. This allows a single cable to provide both data connection and electrical power to devices such as network hubs or closed-circuit TV cameras. Unlike standards such as Universal Serial Bus which also power devices over the data cables, PoE allows long cable lengths. Power may be carried on the same conductors as the data, or it may be carried on spare pairs of the cable. A BAS with PoE is shown in Figure 4.
Figure 4: A BAS using Power over Ethernet (Contemporary Controls4)
There are a number of new PoE devices and systems that are entering the market and addressing the cybersecurity of these systems will be a challenge. When legacy systems are being modernized and/or upgraded with PoE, understanding the network connections and ripple effects of loss of communications or power must be carefully analyzed as part of the Contingency Plan and Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Plan.
Smart Buildings/Intelligent Buildings
A Smart Building or Intelligent Building project generally covers three key elements.5
- Communications Network and Office Automation
- Building Management System
- Integrated Services Infrastructure
The GSA Public Building Service (PBS) has been an active leader in the development of Smart Buildings. In March 2011, the PBS issued the Technology Policy for PBS-Owned Building Monitoring and Control Systems memo, with the objective to "converge the building's Monitoring and Control (M&C) systems infrastructure to enable smarter and more efficient operations." The GSA Smart Building concept is shown in Figure 5.
Figure 5: GSA Smart Buildings Concept
The GSA Smart Buildings effort had three broad objectives:
Open Communication Protocols—Non-proprietary building controls that give GSA greater building management flexibility and reduce service costs
Converged Control Systems Networks (IT backbone)—Elimination of unnecessarily redundant controls infrastructure such as conduit, cables, switches, and UPS's that will then allow interoperability and security compliance
Normalized Data for Systems Communications—Different controls manufacturers or even disparate systems can "talk" to each other allowing for data collection and analysis and more flexibility and management control
The resulting efforts are the convergence of the IT and OT into a new hybrid where the CIO provides the switches, routers and firewalls as Government Furnished Equipment (GFE), and all the building monitoring and control systems plug into the CIO fiber backbone in the distribution closet, as shown in Figure 6.
Figure 6: Converged Building M&C Connected in the Distribution Closet
While the GSA Smart Buildings model may work for many organizations, many others may not want to have the ESS or FLS running on the same fiber as the BAS. The redundancy and operational impact of converged systems is still a relatively new area.
To help evaluate system interdependencies, GSA has developed the Sustainable Facilities Tool. A sustainable building can operate more efficiently and cost less when the impacts of systems on each other are considered. The system bundling section can be leveraged to further understand whole building synergies and explore examples for ideas on what technologies might best be bundled together.
Achieving the design and operational performance requires a substantial change in mindset and training across multiple disciplines, changes in acquisition and contract language, and changes in the buildings operations and maintenance. GSA has developed a revised delivery process and is in the process of updating the Public Building Services Facilities Standard 100. The new process is shown in Figure 7.
Figure 7: GSA Smart Buildings Life Cycle Approach
Smart buildings are now becoming the norm across the country, and as the buildings get ever smarter and interconnected with Smart Cars, Smart Cities, etc., they become vulnerable to outside attack and malware. As the IT and OT systems continue to converge, the need for new Cybersecurity skills and training for the facilities workforce will need to be developed.
Cyber-Physical Systems and the Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity Framework
An emerging classification developed by the National Science Foundation and NIST is to classify the hybrid IT and OT as Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). CPS are defined as integrated, hybrid networks of cyber and engineered physical elements; co-designed and co-engineered to create adaptive and predictive systems, and respond in real time to enhance performance.6 CPS reflect the advances in technology, similar to the shift that occurred going from the Industrial Revolution/Physical Systems to the Internet Revolution/Cyber Systems, and now transitioning to Industrial Internet Revolution/Cyber Physical Systems as shown in Figures 8 and 9.
Figure 8: CPS Timeline Context7
CPS are enabling a new generation of 'smart systems'. NIST has taken an active role and lead in defining the CPS and has held several workshops, resulting in several publications in early 2013:
- National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Executive Roundtable on Cyber-physical Systems
- National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Executive Roundtable on Cyber-physical Innovation
- National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Executive Roundtable on Cyber-physical Systems Strategic R&D
- National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Industrial Internet Workshop, The Industrial Internet and Cyber-Physical Systems: A Government Perspective
Essential CPS characteristics include8:
- Cyber, engineered, and human elements as treated as integral components of a total system to create synergy and enable desired, emergent properties
- Integration of deep physics-based and digital world models provides learning and predictive capabilities for decision support (e.g., diagnostics, prognostics) and autonomous function
- Systems engineering-based open architecture and standards provide for modularity and composability for customization, systems of products, and complex or dynamic applications
- Reciprocal feedback loops between computational and distributed sensing/actuation and monitoring/control elements enables adaptive multi-objective performance
- Networked cyber components provide a basis for scalability, complexity management, and resilience
Figure 9: CPS Common Core Context9
A comparison of the CPS systems and impacts across various sectors are provided in Table 2.
Table 2—Cyber-Physical Sector Context10
|Innovative Products or Applications
|Cyber-Physical Systems
|Smart Manufacturing and Production
|Agile manufacturing
|Intelligent controls
|Enhanced global competitiveness
|Supply chain connectivity
|Process and assembly automation
|U.S.-based high tech manufacturing
|Robotics working safely with humans
|Greater efficiency, agility, and reliability
|Transportation and Mobility
|Autonomous or smart vehicles (surface, air, water, and space)
|Drive by wire vehicle systems
|Accident prevention and congestion reduction (zero-fatality highways)
|Vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication
|Plug ins and smart cars
|Greater safety and convenience of travel
|Interactive traffic control systems
|Next-generation air transport control
|Electricity systems
|Smart electric power grid
|Greater reliability, security, and diversity of energy supply
|Renewable energy supply
|Plug-in vehicle charging systems
|Increased energy efficiency
|Oil and gas production
|Smart oil and gas distribution grid
|Civil Infrastructure
|Bridges and dams
|Active monitoring and control system
|More safe, secure, and reliable infrastructure
|Municipal water and wastewater treatment
|Smart grids for water and wastewater
|Assurance of water quality and supply
|Early warning systems
|Accident warning and prevention
|Medical devices
|Wireless body area networks
|Improved outcomes and quality of life
|Personal care equipment
|Assistive healthcare systems
|Cost-effective healthcare
|Disease diagnosis and prevention
|Wearable sensors and implantable devices
|Timely disease diagnosis and prevention
|Buildings and Structures
|High performance residential and commercial buildings
|Whole building controls
|Increased building efficiency, comfort and convenience
|Net-zero energy buildings
|Smart HVAC equipment
|Improved occupant health and safety
|Building automation systems
|Control of indoor air quality
|Networked appliance systems
|Soldier equipment
|Smart (precision-guided) weapons
|Increased warfighter effectiveness, security, and agility
|Weapons and weapons platforms
|Wearable computing/sensing uniforms
|Supply equipment
|Intelligent, unmanned vehicles
|Decreased exposure for human warfighters and greater capability for remote warfare
|Autonomous and smart underwater sensors
|Supply chain and logistics systems
|Emergency Response
|First responder equipment
|Detection and surveillance systems
|Increased emergency responder effectiveness, safety, efficiency, and agility
|Communications equipment
|Resilient communications networks
|Rapid ability to respond to natural and other disasters
|Fire-fighting equipment
|Integrated emergency response systems
NIST has developed a reference architecture shown in Figure 10 that:
Figure 10: CPS Reference Architecture
- Provides a common lexicon and taxonomy that can apply across CPS
- Shows a common architectural vision to help facilitate interoperability between components and systems
- Enables creation of reusable CPS components and tools to measure and evaluate their performance
- Promotes communication across diverse stakeholder community
- Provides a common lexicon and taxonomy that can apply across CPS
- Shows a common architectural vision to help facilitate interoperability between components and systems
- Enables creation of reusable CPS components and tools to measure and evaluate their performance
- Promotes communication across diverse stakeholder community
The use of the CPS terminology and reference architecture will continue to be an evolving area.
National Institute of Standards and Technology Computer Security Resource Center
The NIST Computer Security Division, Computer Security Resource Center is where the standards and publications are maintained. NIST 800-53 Recommended Security Controls for Federal Information Systems and Organizations, and NIST 800-82 Guide to Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Security are used by most federal agencies as the baseline to evaluate their systems. Both publications were updated and published in spring 2013.
The STUXNET, FLAME, and other cyber attacks have shown how vulnerable the nation's ICS are. As the Smart Grid develops, enhanced security controls are being developed by NIST, to include the NISTIR 7628 Guidelines for Smart Grid Cyber Security, and the NIST Framework and Roadmap for Smart Grid Interoperability Standard, Release 2.0. Buildings that have Advanced Smart Metering and other web or wireless connections to the system should be secured and tested to ensure vulnerabilities are mitigated and risks minimized.
Department of Homeland Security ICS-CERT
The Department of Homeland Security Control Systems Security Program is part of the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) and provides tools, standards, training, and publications for ICS.
The Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) works to reduce risks within and across all critical infrastructure sectors by partnering with law enforcement agencies and the intelligence community and coordinating efforts among Federal, state, local, and tribal governments and control systems owners, operators, and vendors. Additionally, ICS-CERT collaborates with international and private sector Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTs) to share control systems-related security incidents and mitigation measures.
Similar to the advancement of the number of malicious malware and hacking of traditional IT systems, critical infrastructure (CI) is now a primary target and the number of ICS-CERT reported incidents is exponentially increasing.
Figure 11: ICS Vulnerabilities reported to ICS-CERT by ISA 99 Layer
CSET is a desktop software tool that guides users through a step-by-step process to assess their control system and information technology network security practices against recognized industry standards. The output from CSET is a prioritized list of recommendations for improving the cybersecurity posture of the organization's enterprise and industrial control cyber systems. The tool derives the recommendations from a database of cybersecurity standards, guidelines, and practices. Each recommendation is linked to a set of actions that can be applied to enhance cybersecurity controls.
Figure 12: DHS Cyber Security Evaluation Tool
CSET has been designed for easy installation and use on a stand-alone laptop or workstation. It incorporates a variety of available standards from organizations such as National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), International Organization for Standardization (ISO), U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), and others. When the tool user selects one or more of the standards, CSET will open a set of questions to be answered. The answers to these questions will be compared against a selected security assurance level, and a detailed report will be generated to show areas for potential improvement.
CSET provides an excellent means to perform a self-assessment of the security posture of your control system environment.
Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology
DHS S&T has developed several tools to assess the risk and resiliency of buildings, to include the cyber threat. The Integrated Rapid Visual Screening Tool, and the Owners Performance Requirement Tool assist building owners and operators evaluate the threats, vulnerabilities, and consequences and compare mitigation options.
Committee for National Security Systems ICS Overlay
The CNSS provides a forum for the discussion of policy issues, and is responsible for setting national-level Information Assurance policies, directives, instructions, operational procedures, guidance, and advisories for U.S. Government (USG) departments and agencies for the security of National Security Systems (NSS).
In April 2012, DoD formed a Technical Working Group (TWG) and undertook the task of creating the first CNSSI 1253 ICS-PIT Overlay:
"Security control overlays are specifications of security controls and supporting guidance used to complement the security control baselines and parameter values in the Committee on National Security Systems Instruction (CNSSI) No. 1253 and to complement the supplemental guidance in the NIST SP 800-53. Organizations select and apply CNSSI No. 1253 security control overlays by using the guidance in each of the standardized, approved and CNSS-published overlays."
The TWG delivered the first ICS-PIT Overlay to the CNSS in January, 2013, after extensive collaboration among 65 representatives spanning DoD, DHS and numerous agencies. The Overlay is both a "primer," with a standard architecture and layers diagram, and a pictorial of typical devices, sensors and actuators that enable the I&E, IT and Information Assurance (IA) staff in the field to identify and understand the operational protocols (Modbus, LonTalk, etc.), network ports, and connections.
Figure 13: CNSSI 1253 ICS Overlay Enclave Authorization Boundary and Layers
The initial ICS-PIT Overlay was DoD-centric and used DoD specific parameters, but was formally adopted by the CNSS in March, 2013. The initial version will be included in the CSET 5.1 release as an informational and training document; scheduled for a summer 2013 release.
Recognizing the value of the ICS-PIT Overlay, the CNNS has requested that the Overlay be generalized and made applicable to all CNSS stakeholders. The Overlay is currently being modified, and is expected to be formally submitted to the CNSS committee in June of 2013, with an expected approval and release date of August or September ET 6.0 release with a target release date of November 2013.
Handbook for Self-Assessing Security Vulnerabilities & Risks of Industrial Control Systems on DoD Installations
This handbook (PDF) was developed by the Air Force 346th Test Squadron, 262nd Network Warfare Squadron, Idaho National Laboratory and other stakeholder agencies in response to the need to address the lack of field guidance for ICS cybersecurity. The Department of Defense (DoD) Components and Agencies are encouraged to use this handbook to help establish a risk management framework to identify and prioritize mission-related vulnerabilities and risks that may be exposed or created by network connectivity to Industrial Control Systems (ICS). Installations & Environment (I&E)-related ICS include computer hardware, software, and associated sensors and controllers used to monitor and/or control real property, such as on-installation electricity, water, wastewater, natural gas, airfield lighting and petroleum systems. It also includes building heating and air conditioning equipment, lighting, fire and life safety systems. Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition Systems (SCADA), Distributed Control Systems (DCS), Energy Management Control Systems (EMCS) are also types of ICS.
Additional DoD ICS, facility, and building related cybersecurity information can also be found on the Installations & Environment Business Enterprise Integration office website.
Major Resources
Operations and Maintenance (O&M)
Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS)
Federal Agencies
Cyber Threats
- Code of Practice for Cyber Security in the Built Environment, The Institution of Engineering and Technology, December 2014.
- Committee for National Security Systems Instruction 1253—Security Categorization and Control Selection for National Security Systems (PDF 1.4 MB)
- Committee for National Security Systems Instruction 1253—Security Control Overlays for Industrial Control Systems (PDF 2 MB)
- Department of Defense 8500.1 Information Assurance (PDF 198 KB)
- Department of Defense 8570M Information Assurance Workforce Improvement Program (PDF 622 KB)
- Department of Defense Handbook for Self-Assessing Security Vulnerabilities & Risks of Industrial Control Systems on DoD Installations (PDF 6 MB)
- Department of Defense and General Services Administration Improving Cybersecurity and Resilience through Acquisition (PDF 4.2 MB)
- Department of Homeland Security Cyber Security Procurement Language for Control Systems (PDF 2.5 MB)
- Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity Evaluation Tool
- Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Building and Infrastructure Protection Series Tools
- Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Owner Performance Requirements Tool
- National Institute of Standards and Technology NISTIR 6392 GSA Guide to Specifying Interoperable Building Automation and Control Systems Using ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 135-1995, BACnet (PDF 269 KB)
- National Institute of Standards and Technology SP 800-53 Rev 4 Security and Privacy Controls for Federal Information Systems and Organizations (PDF 4.2 MB)
- National Institute of Standards and Technology SP 800-82 Rev 1 Guide to Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Security (PDF 1.9 MB)
- North American Electric Reliability Corporation Critical Infrastructure Protection Standards
- Overview of the DoD Risk Management Framework and the Committee for National Security Systems Instruction 1253, Industrial Control Systems Platform IT Overlay
- Unified Facility Guide Specification 25-10-10 November 2012 Utility Monitoring and Control Systems Front End Integration (PDF 223 KB)
- Navy Unified Facility Guide Specification 25-10-10 May 2013 ICS Front End Integration (PDF 130 KB)
- Committee for National Security System (CNSS)
- Department of Defense Cybersecurity
- Defense Industrial Base Information Assurance Program
- Department of Homeland Security ICS-CERT
- Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology
- Department of Homeland Security National Protection and Programs Directorate
- General Services Administration Smart Buildings
- ISA99 Committee on Industrial Automation and Control Systems Security
- National Institute of Standards and Technology Cybersecurity Framework
- North American Electric Reliability Corporation
- SANS ICS Security
- Smart Power Infrastructure Demonstration for Energy Reliability and Security (SPIDERS) (PDF 2.9 MB)
- Wikipedia List of Automation Controls
|Automation protocols
|Process automation
|Industrial control system
|Building Automation
|Power system automation
|Automatic meter reading
|Automobile / Vehicle
Training Courses
- Certified Information Security Professional (CISSP)
- Certified Cyber Forensics Professional (CCFP)
- Defensive Counter Cyber Operator - Identify (PDF 171 KB)
- Defensive Counter Cyber Operator - Hunt (PDF 698 KB)
- Department of Defense Enterprise Mission Assurance Support Service (EMASS)
- Department of Homeland Security ICS-CERT Training Courses
- Online Computer Science Degree Programs
- SANS ICS Security Courses
- "Cybersecurity of Buildings Workshop" – Jan. 28, 2014
Focus was on the recently released draft DHS ISC Converged Systems White Paper document, GSA Smart Buildings program, and the NIST SP 800-82 Guide to Industrial Control Systems Security. This workshop built on the Cybersecurity of Building track listed below. The purpose of the Workshop was to bring the engineering, security, IT and IA communities together to build on current initiatives to create a common architecture and joint publications to develop defense in depth, continuous monitoring, incident response and recovery, and information sharing CONOPS for ICS and Converged Systems. Download materials and presentations. (ZIP 19 MB)
- "Cybersecurity of Buildings Workshop: OT and IT Convergence - A New Paradigm". Building Innovation 2014: The National Institute of Building Sciences Annual Conference & Expo – Jan. 6, 2014.
- "Cybersecuring Facilities and Facilities Systems". National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Federal Facilities Council (FFC) – May 2015.
1 Courtesy of Fred E. Abbitt, CISSP-ISSEP, CSSA / Physical and Control System Security SME, Information Systems Engineering Command, Information Assurance and Security Engineering Directorate
2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_automation
3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_over_Ethernet
4 www.ccontrols.com/building.htm
5 http://xinca.com/elements-intelligent-buildings-2734.html
6 Key metrics include: efficiency and sustainability, agility and flexibility, reliability and resilience, safety and security.
7 NIST Shyam Sunder Industrial Internet Workshop, March 2013
8 National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Executive Roundtable on Cyber-physical Systems
9 NIST Shyam Sunder Industrial Internet Workshop, March 2013
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She's too young for a medical alert button; that would cramp her style too much.
- Darla, age 45
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According to report, the man was wearing the beard, a blue stocking cap, blue shirt and blue pants when he walked into the salon school at 346 E. Robinson. The person who called police said he demanded money and acted like he had a gun, but never showed a weapon.
The suspect was described aswhite male, 6'1" – 6'4" tall, 180lbs with sandy brown hair and brown or hazel eyes.
The suspect should be treated as armed and dangerous. Anyone with information regarding this Robbery is encouraged to contact the Springdale Police Department at 479-751-4542 or anonymously through SPD Tips at 479-750-4484.
Just Wednesday, Rogers police reported a similar robbery of a Murphy USA gas station and last week a man wearing a fake beard and camouflage hoodie held up a Dollar General, also in Rogers. So far, police have not said they think these crimes are connected.


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Early last month, Polish publisher City Interactive announced it would use the Unreal Engine 3 and the CryEngine 3 to power two of its upcoming shooters. Now, the company has shed some light on how it'll use the latter.
In an interview with Eurogamer Sweden, City Interactive chief producer Michal Sroczynski announced that Sniper: Ghost Warrior is getting a sequel powered by Crytek's CryEngine 3. The boss told the site that unlike the original--which landed on the PC and Xbox 360 at launch--the follow-up will also hit the PlayStation 3.
As for the studio's Unreal Engine 3 title, few details are available. However, last month City announced it formed a new studio in London and tapped Stuart Black (Black, Bodycount) to lead the team.
The original Sniper: Ghost Warrior arrived in June for the Xbox 360 and PC. It received middling reviews, and the headshot-happy title is expected to land on the PS3 next month. For more on the game, check out GameSpot's review of Sniper: Ghost Warrior.


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Preview: Creighton vs. Duke
Led by sharp-shooting Seth Curry, second-seeded Duke looks to take another step toward a possible fifth national title when it meets upstart Creighton on Sunday in the third round of the NCAA Tournament Midwest Regional at Philadelphia. The Blue Devils shrugged off a pesky Albany team in their tourney opener. A year ago Duke was also seeded second but lost its first tournament game to 15th-seeded Lehigh.
The seventh-seeded Blue Jays got 27 points and 11 rebounds from junior All-American Doug McDermott and put the game away at the free-throw line to fend off Cincinnati in their opener on Friday. McDermott, a highly-touted NBA prospect, may turn pro after the season but he'll have at least one more collegiate game to enhance his resume. Creighton has won six straight and is the best-shooting team in the country.
ABOUT DUKE (28-5): The Blue Devils' title chances were given a major boost when senior forward Ryan Kelly returned from a foot injury for the final games of the season. At 6-11 and armed with a strong outside game, Kelly - part of Duke's 2010 national championship team - is a nightmarish matchup. But it was stalwarts Curry and Mason Plumlee who carried the Blue Devils past Albany. The tandem combined for 49 points on a spectacular 19-of-25 shooting as the Blue Devils atoned for last year's early exit. "Plumlee did the best Kareem Abdul-Jabbar imitation I've seen in a long time," Albany coach Will Brown said. "He hit three sky hooks. I haven't even seen somebody attempt that shot in my 12 years at Albany, and he hit three of them." Coach Mike Krzyzewski has won an NCAA Tournament-record 80 games.
ABOUT CREIGHTON (28-7): The Blue Jays finished the first half of Friday's second-round game on a 6-0 run and never trailed again on their way to a 67-63 win over Cincinnati. Creighton was inconsistent throughout the contest - it shot 63 percent with 10 turnovers in the first half, then hit just 7-of-23 shots in the second half but converted 9-of-10 free throws in the final two minutes to prevail. The Blue Jays also reached the third round of last year's tournament but were eliminated by North Carolina. Creighton has won tournament games in consecutive years for the first time in school history.
Albany shot 36.5 percent in its loss to Duke but was 9-for-15 from 3-point range, the best by far of any Duke opponent this season.
McDermott broke his own school scoring record for the season with 803 points.
This is the first meeting between the schools.
PREDICTION: Duke 75, Creighton 71
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- Preview: Michigan St vs. Duke ( March 29, 2013 )
- Curry's 26 lead Duke past Albany ( March 22, 2013 )
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1. Who is the main character of the novel?
(a) Kevin.
(b) Paddy Clarke.
(c) James O'Keefe.
(d) Sinbad Clarke.
2. In what town do the boys live?
(a) Motown.
(b) Belfast.
(c) Barrytown.
(d) Glasgow.
3. In what era is the novel taking place?
(a) 1980's.
(b) 1970's.
(c) 2000's.
(d) 1960's.
4. What do the boys steal from a building site at the start of the novel?
(a) Bricks.
(b) Nails.
(c) Plywood.
(d) Glass.
5. What do the boys like to write their names in at the beginning of the novel?
(a) Mud.
(b) Wet cement.
(c) Pipes.
(d) Sand.
6. What is the boys' favorite thing to jump when they are playing chase?
(a) Sidewalk cracks.
(b) People.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Hedges.
7. Where does Paddy light Sinbad's lips on fire?
(a) At home.
(b) The pipes.
(c) Nowhere.
(d) The school shed.
8. What does Paddy light between Sinbad's lips?
(a) Lighter fluid.
(b) A candle.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A cigar.
9. When Paddy is swimming at the beginning of the novel, what is he stung by?
(a) A bee.
(b) Nothing.
(c) A wasp.
(d) A jellyfish.
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This morning as I was taking out the garbage before going to work.. I met my neighbor in the driveway .. she was crouched down looking toward my backyard. Softly she spoke and said to me… there are two deer just over there. I glanced over and this is what I saw. :-)
These two young deer starring right back at me.. watching and waiting to see what I would do. Always having my camera in hand, I slowly unzipped my camera bag… snapped a couple of shots and then very quietly and slowly made my way around the other side of the house hoping to get a closer look. So gentle they are. Something about them brings feels of peace and softness to my heart. So for today's wise words I give you the Deer Totem:
Deer teaches us to use the power of gentleness to touch the hearts and minds of wounded beings who are in our lives.
Don't push towards change in others, rather gently nudge them in right direction with the love that comes from a Deer totem.
When a Deer totem shows up in your life, a new innocence and freshness is about to be awakened. There is going to be a gentle lure of new adventures. There will be an opportunity to express the gentle love that will open new doors for you.
Deer folk carry the message of purity of purpose; of walking in the light to dispel shadows. They know the work that they must do, and go about that work with no fanfare and no need for personal glory or recognition.
There are no shadows about deer; no ulterior motives; no hidden agendas; no lies or misrepresentations, and it is not possible for deer to knowingly hurt anyone or anything.
Nothing can cause deer to change its path. There may be many who continually throw roadblocks in the way; deer steps over them or goes around them. Many give deer dozens of reasons why a thing won't work, but it only listens politely and then continues on. Deer people know what they must do, and will not be turned from its mission.
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The style of kebaya in Indonesia has evolved for years. Kebaya is one of Indonesian's traditional clothing. Lately kebaya become more popular even in international fashion. Usually people use kebaya in wedding ceremony, party, and formal event. Designers in Indonesia had used their skill to create some creation of the design of kebaya. Nowadays, it's called modern kebaya. Basically modern kebaya is the same as traditional kebaya, but modern kebaya has more variations of models. Not only for adults, modern kebaya also become a trend among teens.
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What does 'participate' mean?
As I mentioned last night, the meeting of the RBC today is meaningless. Harold Ickes, in high dudgeon, dramatically reserved Senator Clinton's right to 'take the Michigan compromise to the credentials committee."
Clinton supporters, in addition to being incredibly rude and unruly, are unhappy that Obama was given ANY delegates in Michigan, just as I suspected. Everything turns on the Four State Pledge signed by all candidates where they agreed to this paragraph:
THEREFORE, I _______________, Democratic Candidate for President, pledge
I shall not campaign or participate in any state which schedules a presidential
election primary or caucus before Feb. 5, 2008, except for the states of Iowa,
Nevada, New Hampshire and South Carolina, as "campaigning" is defined by
rules and regulations of the DNC.
Everything turns on the word "participate". A couple of facts:
- Michigan automatically adds names to their ballot for their primary on the day that candidates declare their candidacy. Michigan also has a rule allowing candidates to remove their names from the ballot.
- Florida does not have a similar provision allowing candidates to remove their names from the ballot. Once names are there, they're there.
Participate has an active and passive definition. The active definition is "be involved in; enter a race; enter an agreement; enter negotiation;" The passive definition is to 'become a participant' by default (e.g., having one's name added to a ballot)
If one does not actively pursue adding their name to the ballot, then the term 'to participate' has to be interpreted as leaving it there.
Therefore, the only way to stay consistent with the pledge was to withdraw their name from the ballot. Further, voters for Edwards, Obama and Biden were urged by the Michigan Democratic party to vote 'uncommitted' to express their preference for unlisted candidates. They did so, with the assumption that either no votes would count, or their 'uncommitted votes' would be allocated to some candidate in some fashion later on.
For anyone to argue that Obama wasn't entitled to any delegates is simply dishonest. For any DEMOCRAT to argue for voter's rights while simultaneously moving to disenfranchise 238,000 Michigan voters proves the cynical basis for the original argument.
Obama needs 68 delegates to reach the now-firm delegate number of 2118. He will likely win 43-45 after the final primaries. He only needs 28-30 superdelegates to reach the nomination. If an additional 40 superdelegates make a public commitment, the threat of the credentials committee appeal will be irrelevant.
It would be good for Hillary Clinton to be gracious on Tuesday night. It would certainly go far toward healing the very large breach and softening me toward her and her rude, obnoxious supporters who were so incredibly harsh in Washington DC today.
It would be good, but don't hold your breath.
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The Facts about Puerto Rico
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The RBC meeting will be irrelevant
…Because the Clinton campaign has drawn a deep line in the sand, a line which can only be resolved with the intervention of the credentials committee.
However, there is another way. The pledged delegates and superdelegates, with the press, can make her irrelevant. It's time to start doing that.
There will be some sort of resolution in the rules committee, but it will not be acceptable to Senator Clinton. Therefore, she will continue on through the convention, but it is possible to silence her divisiveness if the pledged and superdelegates pledge unity to the candidate who won legitimately by the rules, and the press quits calling this as a horserace.
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Worthy of attention
- Jeffrey Toobin: In McCain's Court
- Pentagon Announces Troop Deployments Of 42,000 To Iraq, Afghanistan
- Why Republicans Might Attack Iran Before the General Elections
For example, one of the strongest scenarios among neo-conservatives is based on the hypothesis that in the case of any military attack against Iran — even a limited air strike — the greatest beneficiary among the three presidential candidates would be John McCain. The reason for this is that the American people's first priority would become national security instead of the economy, and since there might be a "perception" that McCain would deal with foreign policy issues better than economic ones, he would have a stronger chance of winning in November.
- Clinton Puts Up A New Fight
Later, when asked if she thinks this campaign has been racist, she says she does not. And she circles back to the sexism. "The manifestation of some of the sexism that has gone on in this campaign is somehow more respectable, or at least more accepted, and . . . there should be equal rejection of the sexism and the racism when it raises its ugly head," she said. "It does seem as though the press at least is not as bothered by the incredible vitriol that has been engendered by the comments by people who are nothing but misogynists."
(My aside: No racism? REALLY? Yes, there has been sexism on the part of the media, the pundits, some Obama supporters and bloggers. But to say there's been NO racism? That's just a lie.)
Might he really be a "maverick" when it comes to the Supreme Court? The answer, almost certainly, is no. The Senator has long touted his opposition to Roe, and has voted for every one of Bush's judicial appointments; the rhetoric of his speech shows that he is getting his advice on the Court from the most extreme elements of the conservative movement. With the general election in mind, McCain had to express himself with such elaborate circumlocution because he knows that the constituency for such far-reaching change in our constellation of rights is small, and may be shrinking.
Today is the day that Barack Obama will tip over the majority of pledged delegates. He will need less than 100 total delegates for the nomination. I would once again encourage the women profiled in the last article to consider the facts in the first article.
Larry Johnson is an Anti-Intellectual, Fearmongering, Lying Pig
Photo: Larry C. Johnson's self portrait,
as published on the Huffington Post
If this guy is a friend of Hillary Clinton's, she really doesn't need any enemies. With screeds like this where imaginary terrorists named William Ayers become arguments against Barack Obama 5 days ahead of the West Virginia and Kentucky primaries, the excrable Larry Johnson displays the worst and ugliest of the Bush/McCain administrations while stumping for..
a Democrat. And not just any Democrat. Hillary Clinton.
His bio is revealing:
Larry C. Johnson is CEO and co-founder of BERG Associates, LLC, an international business-consulting firm that helps corporations and governments manage threats posed by terrorism and money laundering. Mr. Johnson works with US military commands in scripting terrorism exercises, briefs foreign governments on a regular basis on terrorist trends, and conducts undercover investigations on product counterfeiting and smuggling.
If you're inclined to read the entire bio, you'll discover two important facts. First, he was probably Barack Obama's age (6) during the Weather Underground times and only knows what he's read from biased right-wing liars. Second, he worked for the CIA at important, critical junctures, up to and including the year 1989, when the CIA should have been gathering and reporting the intelligence that could have prevented the 9/11 attacks. The CIA failures that caused George Tenet to fall on his sword. Yes, that CIA.
Of course, it also goes without saying that those same years in the CIA that have earned him such "acclaim" were also the Clinton years. Of course, it is true that they were a little distracted there at the end.
How unfortunate that he would go ballistic on Hillary Clinton's behalf and write this:
Hillary's only hope is that the super delegates will come to their senses and realize that Barack Obama's relationships with the corrupt Tony Rezko, the racist-wife stealing Jeremiah Wright, and the unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers will provide the Republicans with ammunition they have never had at hand to use against the Democrats' candidate. This is particularly true of that flag stomper, Bill Ayers.
No, those are no hopes at all for Hillary. None. Zero. I'd like to think she's learned her lesson when it comes to relying on this stuff. See, this year the voters are all about authenticity. Even the ones who didn't go to college are thinking. (Note: If you believe any of the guano Johnson is tossing, you're NOT thinking. Start.)
In actuality, the flag stomper is Mr. Johnson, who qualifies in my book as the same kind of government shill that was doing the dirty work for the Bushies with the networks when they were loaned out by the government as "consultants and commentators".
So, Mr. Johnson, let me put this plainly. Bill Ayers ain't going to play much of anywhere other than backwater areas where they only get Fox News and actually believe the shit they try to pass off as fact. Why? BECAUSE BILL CLINTON PARDONED TWO WEATHER UNDERGROUND CRIMINALS AND BILL AYERS WAS NOT CONVICTED OF SQUAT.
Got it? Good.
The rest of Johnson's rant is just irrational. It hasn't worked for the past month and it's not going to work now. Ayers isn't going to play no matter how desperately Bob Novak (aka Mr. "Out Valerie Plame") wants to think so.
And Mr. Johnson, consider this. Not one time has Barack Obama pointed out Whitewater, the White House travel scandal, the "Lincoln Bedroom for campaign cash" scam, or Bill Clinton's impeachment. Not one time. Surrogates speaking for Hillary Clinton should consider their own conduct in this regard.
This desperate gasp on Mr. Johnson's part confirms what I've believed all along. The GOP was desperate for Clinton to be the Democratic candidate, believing that they had 1200 pages of dirt to serve up in the upcoming national campaign. Now that the majority of voters (no matter how you cut it, with and without Florida and Michigan, by the way) have said they choose Barack Obama, the GOP knows the inevitable truth.
In November, they will lose the White House and the Congress. There will be a sweeping mandate, and there won't be a goddamn thing they can do about it.
The Republicans' chickens are coming home to roost.
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We will end it by telling the truth…
Just in case there's any doubt whatsoever, here is a reasonable prediction of the remaining primaries; indeed, almost a best-case prediction, including Florida and Michigan with no penalty. Obama has 259 Superdelegates right now. The math is inevitable.
[edited to give Senator Clinton the correct FL/MI delegates and reset remaining to 50/50 for more accurate forecast]
So don't ever forget that this election is not about me, or any candidate. Don't ever forget that this campaign is about you – about your hopes, about your dreams, about your struggles, about securing your portion of the American Dream.
Don't ever forget that we have a choice in this country – that we can choose not to be divided; that we can choose not to be afraid; that we can still choose this moment to finally come together and solve the problems we've talked about all those other years in all those other elections.
This time can be different than all the rest. This time we can face down those who say our road is too long; that our climb is too steep; that we can no longer achieve the change that we seek. This is our time to answer the call that so many generations of Americans have answered before – by insisting that by hard work, and by sacrifice, the American Dream will endure. Thank you, and may God Bless the United States of America.
- Barack Obama, 5/6/08
No, Barack, thank you. For staying focused on the goal and keeping your hopes up. Thanks to you, my disenfranchised 27-year old homeless veteran son put on his Obama '08 shirt tonight and left his cynicism at the door.
Yes, we can.
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With her perky, upbeat attitude, Maryland's Karri Ellen Johnson has always been a glass-half-full person. Right now, however, her glass is just about running over.
After repercussions from a concussion wiped out the last 12 games of her junior season, including Maryland's run to the NCAA women's lacrosse final, she is relishing every minute on the field as the No. 3 Terrapins prepare to host No. 6 Loyola in Saturday's noon NCAA quarterfinal.


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By Catherine Shainberg, PhD
We live in our body, but we often forget how connected to our body we really are. We act as if our body were an alien being, inaccessible to dialogue, which must be taken elsewhere — like an object — to be fixed. We experience the usual plethora of sensations, emotions, feelings, and even pains — yet we don't seem to grasp the possibility that we may directly and powerfully affect the health of our own body. Instead, we give our power away to medicines and drugs, or to the doctor, therapist, chiropractor, pharmacist, healer, or even our friends. And we often do this without even asking ourselves, "Can I heal myself?"
The Treasure Is in Our Dreaming
When speaking about, or to, the body, it is best to speak in images. For images are a language the body understands far better than words. To illustrate what I mean, let me tell you a story:
Once upon a time in Cracow lived a Jew named Eizik, son of Yekel. Riddled with debt and responsible for a large family, Eizik longed for someone or something to relieve him of his burdens. But nothing seemed forthcoming.
One night, Eizik had a strange dream. He saw himself in Prague, the distant capital, standing under the bridge that spanned the Vltava River, just next to the king's palace. "Dig!" said a voice in his ear. "On this very spot is buried a treasure. All your problems will be solved." But upon awaking, Eizik dismissed the dream as just a figment of his imagination. He felt that he had neither the strength nor the resources to travel so far.
But the dream would not go away. Night after night, he dreamed the same dream. Finally, Eizik realized that there would be no peace for him until he journeyed to far-off Prague to verify its truth.
Upon arriving at the capital, exhausted and hungry, Eizik went straight to the king's palace. There, he recognized the bridge from his dream, the exact spot he had visioned. But soldiers were guarding the bridge. How was he to approach?
He decided simply to tell the truth. And, as you may imagine, Eizik's revelations provoked the soldiers to great hilarity and teasing. "As for myself," one of them mockingly said, "I dreamed there was a treasure buried in Cracow, under the chimney in Eizik the Jew's home! And I'm leaving right now to get it!"
Upon hearing these words, Eizik had a sudden illumination. He hurried back to Cracow, removed the stones in his chimney, and, lo and behold! there was the treasure.
That the treasure lies inside ourselves, always within reach, is the first and most obvious message of this famous Hasidic story. But that the treasure lies in our dreaming is a message that is less often understood or realized.
But if the moral of the story is carried to its fullest extent, we can see that we are being told that dreaming itself contains the answer to our problems. In this story, dreaming is the magic wand that disperses our clouds, opens our locked doors, moves our land masses, cleans our cobwebs and dusty mirrors, and reveals the treasure hidden within each of us.
Is this true? Can we actually use our dreams to clear our own physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual bodies? To answer this question, we must ask another one: "What is dreaming?"
Two Warring Brains
We have only one body, but we have two arms, two legs, two eyes, and two brains. Without these "twos" we could not strive for the tension of balance. Unfortunately, however, one side of our mind and body will often become atrophied, thus weakening and undermining the other side. For example, if your right arm is used too frequently, the natural symmetry of your posture can become unbalanced.
Our two brains (to simplify matters we'll call them the left and right brains) have traditionally not lived happily side by side. The left brain has dominated our way of thinking since the advent of Scientific Enlightenment. It deals with logic, language, abstraction, mathematics, physics, problem-solving. Its thinking is sequential, linear, rational, and objective. Its progression is dependent upon the laws of cause and effect. The left brain tends to underrate and debase the subjective right brain.
The right brain, on the contrary, is essentially involved with the body and all of its attendant manifestations, sensations, and emotions. The right brain interprets facial expressions and body movements. It deciphers lightning-speed, complex signals, reconstructing them to gain knowledge. In this way, for instance, not only does the right brain report on other people's appearance and state of well-being, it also makes an assessment of their deeper emotional landscape.
The right brain operates instantaneously, holistically, and intuitively. As the English language so aptly puts it, we are "in-formed" by the right brain, which picks up pattern, shape, and interacting forms. Thus, our smell cilia are "in-formed" by the shape of the molecules that waft towards our noses. Our ears are imprinted with the wave patterns of sound, our eyes, with the wavelength of electromagnetic radiation.
The right brain not only receives, but also responds to the outer world and to the fluctuations within our own bodies. It does this by bringing clusters of pattern, shape, and movement into our awareness. Our interactive right brain is actively dreaming day and night.
Why then do we undervalue this twin side of ourselves? If we are right-handed, would we ever think of cutting off the left arm, simply because it is not as useful as the right? Who is it that tells us our right brain is not useful?
The answer, of course, is: the left brain! Having claimed our attention, the left brain refuses to relinquish its prerogative. It tells us that the cognitions of the right brain are dreams, and that dreams are mere fantasy. But are they?
Dreaming and Fantasy
Before we go on to describe the forgotten powers of dreaming, we must dispel the notion that dreaming and fantasy are one and the same. The left brain, being willful, aggressive, and competitive, sets itself goals that it proceeds to realize. Fantasy is the left brain's way of twisting our true dreaming to its own purposes.
For example, we might fantasize that our boss is fired for stealing money from the company, and, lo and behold, we are offered his job! Fantasy is self-serving. Our claims, expectations, desires, longings, and resentments color the fantasy and its outcome.
True dreaming is free of such conniving. Instead, it responses playfully, like a child does. Presented with a grimace, it will stick its tongue out. Presented with a beautiful woman, it will light up with a wondrous smell or a beatific landscape. Dreaming responds to what it perceives, not simplistically, not foolishly, but in a manner that is direct, spontaneous, and creative.
We will call this responsive dreaming "Active Imagination."
The "Health Foods" of Relatedness
Imagine an infant deprived at an early age of its mother. It cries and cries — and continues to cry into adulthood.
What do we feed it? Words. "Talking cures." Unfortunately, however, talking cures affect only the mind. They cannot affect the poor body, still longing for the soft touch of a mother's caressing hands, the sweet sound of her cooing, the luminosity of her eyes and smile.
Words only wrap the unfortunate story of loss more securely around the suffering body. They cannot cure the body of its hunger. Only through "in-forming" the right brain — using Active Imagination to feed it lived experiences, the embodied relationships, the sustenance it so desperately needs — only this way can the void of patterning be addressed. By in-forming the right brain through the Active Imagination, the twisted configurations patterned by early lack can be unraveled and reconfigured.
How can we in-form the right brain through Active Imagination? How does this actually work?
To begin with, through the therapist or other helper, the right brain instantly picks up the sound of the listening ear, the look of the loving eyes, the feel of the hand that caresses the body, or even its proximity. Half the work of healing is done by attentive presence, caring, or touch.
Even at a distance, the right brain is wired like a radio, picking up the shape of these caring frequencies. We experience this phenomenon in our daily life, when we think of someone, only to find them calling us in the next hour or day. The vision of that person's face and the emotion generated in our right brain sends a localized signal to the other person in the same way that tuning to a radio station will cause specific sounds and content to be received. Resonance to subtle thought and feeling is the hallmark of the right brain.
Personally Attending to Our Pains
Because of the right brain's ability to pick up sustenance as described above, we do not need to wait in order to feed ourselves the healthy food of relatedness! Others, in attending to us, may stimulate our responsiveness. But we can attend to ourselves in the same way. In fact, being always in our bodies, we can do this even more powerfully than anyone else. All it takes is turning our senses inward to harken to our own needs.
Where do we start? With our bodies. At first, we start this re-patterning of the configurations of lack by attending to our body's pains and discomforts. When we contract against our pain, trying to distance ourselves from it, we are feeding the pattern of lack. When we conquer our natural impulse to run away and instead begin to feed our right brain the experiences, the subtle energies, the sustenance our body seeks, we can reverse the negative patterning and create healing.
Here's how to do this:
Attending to Your Pain
Close your eyes, breathe out slowly three times counting from three back to one. See the "1" tall, clear, and very bright.
Now, turning your eyes inward — inside your body — let your vision travel down to the area of the physical, emotional, or mental pain. Allow yourself to be in-formed by the pain: What does it look like? What color is it? Does it smell? Does it have a texture or a sound? Is it hot or cold? Inflamed or dull? Wet or dry? Describe to yourself everything you "see" about your pain.
As you do this, you will be impelled to do something about what you are "seeing." For instance, let us imagine that you have been in-formed that there is a fine-line fracture in your bone. How might you deal with it? The answer is found only through your own inner impulses. Just as you did when you were a child, you play. You improvise. For instance, you might get the notion to fill up the crack with a ray of sunlight. Or you might have the impulse to glue it with the white paste of a chewed radish. Find your own images. You have received an inner image of a fine-line fracture, and you respond by offering an image back to the image offered you.
In this way, you are feeding your right brain. Through the neuronal pathways, this new message is transmitted to your bone. Your bone, accordingly in-formed, hastens to heal.
Please, don't believe what I am saying! Instead, put it actively to the test. Words cannot in-form. Only images perceived, fully experienced, and embodied will do this. The next time you experience pain, use your active imagination to heal yourself.
Responding to Inner In-Formation
Pain — contraction — is not the only way to access the right brain. Relaxation offers equally compelling in-formation. For instance, when you are dozing off but not quite asleep yet, you may suddenly be flooded with novel sensations, vivid colors, lights, and strange images or juxtaposition of images. These images (called hypnagogic) are revealing the contours of your right brain. When you are falling asleep, with exterior stimuli shut out or muted, the right brain surfaces like a sunken island out of the ocean of sleep oblivion.
Your dreams present you with yet another unfinished puzzle to which you can add your own pieces. For instance, you dream that you are swept away by a swollen torrent. You wake up with a feeling of terror. But after contemplation, you recognize that your life is just too busy, that you are out of control. In a case like this, what do you do? Call up your therapist in a panic? Possibly. But a better way, perhaps, is just to sit down, close your eyes, and return into the dream. This method of dealing with your fear is faster and cheaper, and it frees you to be responsible and independent.
Here is how to go about it:
Attending to Your Dream
Close your eyes, and breathe out three times, counting from three back to one. See the "1" tall, clear, and very bright.
Now, return into the dream. See yourself being swept away by a raging torrent. What do you do to extricate yourself? You could, for example, relax completely — let go, and let yourself be carried by the raging waters. Soon, you drift down to a calm, sparkling sea. Or you might hang on to a low branch and heave yourself from the roiling waters. Or you might simply decide to sink to the bottom of the torrent and rest there, becoming the water, then rising, realize that the waters have become calm. Watch what unfolds. When you feel that the movement has come to completion, breathe out and open your eyes.
So you do have many options. But please remember this: When you re-enter a dream, only one of those options will surface. The dream image and that one option serve as both your diagnosis and your healing. You find the resolution to a difficult image through the unfolding of your active dreaming, and in the process you in-form your body of the abatement of the physical, emotional, or mental storm. You have participated directly in your own healing.
Dialoguing With Your Right Brain
Will you be satisfied with just responding to a pain or to a dream? How about dialoguing directly with your right brain? You know now that it needs your imput to return to health and then to continue being healthy. Are you not tempted to find out what treasure is buried under your emotional chimney? To pull away the stones that have confined and hidden it from view? To plunge unabashedly into the space just opened up?
To do so, you must act. You must ask a question, expecting the answer to reach you — not in words, but in a 3-D, surround-sound, all-encompassing experience. Your right brain is just like a well-cared-for child. The more you dare to ask questions of it, the more active, vital, perky, and playful it gets. Soon, it is joyously manifesting the cornucopia of its hidden world. Your crying infant who became a sad adult is suddenly feeling replete.
By paying attention to yourself, you are being fed, enriched, moved and transformed. The old fixed configuration of loss and impoverishment is breaking up, transmuting, and flowing into the promised land of milk and honey. Abundance, richness, creativity, joy, lightness of being, love, grace, beauty — all spring up from that inner land. To access it, just utilize this in-formation:
Dialoguing With Your Dream World
Close your eyes. Breathe out three times, counting from three back to one. See the "1" tall, clear, and very bright.
Imagine that you are standing in a meadow, looking up into a clear blue sky. Stretching your arm up to the sun, and catching a ray of light, use this ray of light to draw a circle of light in the right-hand side of the sky. Breathe out and bring your arm down.
Look into the circle of light, and see what wonders are appearing there for you. When you have seen, respond directly if the need arises. Or else, if the image completes and satisfies you, breathe out and open your eyes.
There are an infinity of ways of tapping into the imaginal Source. Clues to how this can be done may be found by modeling yourself on the poet. The poet inhabits a no-man's land between words and image. He jolts us out of our habitual mode of seeing by juxtaposed or leaping images, paradoxical or unexpected effects, sharp directional shifts. Stuffy configurations are disposed of, new ones configured. You can learn abundantly from the poet's craft.
Remember that your left brain wants to disclaim everything you have just read. Your right brain, on the contrary, leaps up to the bait of pattern, image, touch, sound, smell, and taste.
Will you feed your hungry inner child the healthy foods of your imagination? If you do so, you not only heal yourself, but also propel yourself into new and exciting adventures. Like Eizik of Cracow, by actively participating in your own dreaming, you can discover the buried treasure in your hearth. Therein lies your own, inborn heritage of health, abundance, happiness, and a balanced life.
About the Author — Dr. Catherine Shainberg is an internationally known expert in the uses of Imagery for transformation on all levels. She has designed and developed, in over 40 years of experience, modern applications for ancient science which have proved effective in thousands of cases. Whether the field is physical, mental or spiritual, her methods work quickly, simply and efficiently. Her method, Reversing™, has proven results in areas ranging from childbirth to business management—including the successful use of Imagery for combat-related injury, PTSD, cancer and mental illness.
She has written two books on the application of her techniques: Kabbalah and the Power of Dreaming, and DreamBirth. DreamBirth will be available in 2014 from Sounds True, as a book and an audio series. Her upcoming publications will include books on Dream Opening™ and the uses of Reversing™ for trauma and risk management. Her published audios include: DreamBirth: Conception, DreamBirth: Pregnancy, DreamBirth Labor: Before, During and After, Imagery for Surgery, and Kabbalah and the Power of Dreaming Guided Exercises. Her first book is available in Japanese, German, Russian, Spanish, Czech and Romanian, with translations into other languages in production. Her audio series is also being translated into Russian, German, Spanish and Japanese.
Dr. Shainberg travels year-round to meet demand for live workshops, and in response to requests from international students, has created weekly online classes for Russia, Japan, Australia, Germany, Spain, France, Mexico, South America, Portugal, Belgium, UK and other countries.
In 1982, she founded The School of Images in New York. The School holds classes in Imagery, Dream Opening™, Morphology, Pregnancy, Supervision and supports a Prayer group for healing. The School gives 50% of its training to scholarship students, and its trainees or graduates practice in the US and internationally: The School of Images™–Japan, The School of Images™ –Slovenia, The School of Images™ –Australia, and The School of Images™—Russia.
Dr. Shainberg was born in London, England and raised in France. She has Masters degrees from the Sorbonne, l'Ecole du Louvre and NYU, and a PhD in psychology. She has a private practice in New York and lives in New York and Wellfleet, Massachusetts.


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Like running into an old friend on the street or rediscovering your favorite grade-school book (we recently stumbled upon our dog-eared copy of From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler and got swept up in its charms!), there is something particularly lovely about approaching the beloved-but-forgotten with fresh eyes. The same is true with style; though the fashion industry is notoriously cyclical and known to revisit its past for inspiration, we are always pleasantly surprised when an oldie-but-goodie suddenly becomes an au currant must-have. This season we had one such epiphany when we noticed some of our favorite dressers (and designers) were responding to the siren song of that sea-worthy staple, the Breton stripe shirt. Although some people tend to shy away from horizontal stripes, we actually think this piece looks great on any body. And there are multiple reasons why everyone should own one: it's casual, easy to wear, well priced, and very versatile! Bottom line: in the deft hands of fashion frontrunners such as Alexa Chung and Olivia Palermo, the classic sailor-stripe is most definitely a Look We Love!
Before we get into the outfits, let us first provide you, dear readers, with a little context. The Breton stripe shirt originated in Brittany-a French province that occupies the peninsula between the English Channel and Bay of Biscay-which may explain its nautical affiliation. The long-sleeved cotton garment usually has a boat neck and, traditionally, the stripes begin around the breastbone. Directional designers like Christopher Decarnin, however, amped up the chic factor by creating a glittering mariner shirt with bold shoulders for Balmain's F/W 09 collection. Very on trend, n'est pas! And while the runway rendition is inspirational to be sure, we will always have an affinity for the more pared-down take on this casual classic. After all, nothing can beat the laid-back allure of an oversized striped top with pushed up sleeves for a chic afternoon look, no matter whether you're yachting or merely captaining a lawn chair!
Elle Macpherson, today's first style star, took a simple approach to the seafaring stripe while making a carpool run in London. Her navy blue top with thin white stripes looked très chic with a pair of rough-hewn jeans, a leather belt, and a smart shrunken blazer. She polished off the look with a pair of t-strap thong sandals and aviators, proving that this supermodel is ready for any sea or sky adventure! We love the dark-blue base of her selection and think Lilly Pulitzer's Christina Stripe Long Sleeve Shirt ($72) would be a great alternative! Claudia Schiffer also elevated her outfit of skinny Alexander McQueen jeans and Isabel Marant boots (both unfortunately, from past seasons) by rocking Chanel's striped tunic featuring a hand-monogrammed version of the French fashion house's signature interlocking logo. Though other tastemakers such as Sienna Miller have also been spotted in the Chanel shirt, we like how Schiffer mixed hers with stovepipe black bottoms, as it really allows her top to shine. If you like the length of her pick, try Topshop's Stripe Tunic ($40), which is great as is, or feel free to get crafty and take a D-I-Y approach by adding your favorite iron-ons and fabric paint à la Mr. Lagerfeld!
Although this shirt is the perfect low-key option, remember it can also be dressed up with a skirt and a seasonally appropriate heel for a sassy summer ensemble. Olivia Palermo did just that when she wore a Club Monaco striped shirt and an a-line mini with Roberta Freyman's Wine Drop Necklace ($220, 212.585.3767). To get a look-a-like assemblage, try Juicy Couture's Waffle Knit Tee ($52) with Wren's Polly Drop Waist Skirt ($215) for an outfit that is as polished as it is flirty and fun. Finally, we have everyone's favorite British import, Alexa Chung, who opted for a traditional marine-inspired top to film her second episode of It's On With Alexa Chung talk show. Though we love her navy blue A.P.C. jumper and espadrilles, we are especially smitten with Chung's vintage striped selection. If you are like us and enjoy the real McCoy, there is no better online resource than BrittanyBoutique.com. This well-stocked site has a wonderful variety of quality French boating attire-we like the Minquiers Breton Sailor Shirt ($42) the best-but feel free to spend some time fishing around the site to peruse all of their nautical-inspired gear!-KM
Photo of Alexa Chung, Olivia Palermo, from PCN; Photo of Elle Macpherson, from INF; Photo of Claudia Schiffer, from Wenn.


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