Orchestrating a Fire Sale: Bringing Dutch Alarm Systems to Their Knees

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Presented at HITBSecConf Amsterdam 2013 by

Wilco Hofman

This will be an in-depth talk about the SIA-HS and Vebon SecIP alarm system protocols in use in The Netherlands. We will cover why these protocols are broken and how Dutch alarm systems can be rendered useless, creating panic at the alarm receiving centers and allow for a ‘Die Hard’ like scenario to be achieved. We will go through the mistakes and assumptions about security that were made while designing the SIA-HS (HS for Highly Secure) and SecIP protocols and will also detail the current state of alarm signalling. As a bonus, details of the Dutch alarm industry’s response to their mistakes being pointed out (while also getting the Dutch NCSC [National Cyber Security Centrum] to contact them) will be covered.