Create The Future Of OT & ICS Security

Create The Future Of OT & ICS Security

12 Mar 2020 | 2020

Note: This week has been full of depressing events, and our main hope is for everyone to get through this safely. The future will be brighter, and let’s use some of this time of isolation to figure out what we want and start creating it. Making Six S4x20 Ideas...

It Won’t Work In ICS … Until It Does

5 Mar 2020 | 2020

My most vivid early experience with ‘it won’t work in ICS’ was in 2006. We had received a DHS research contract to develop Snort intrusion detection signatures and preprocessors for ICS protocols (originally Modbus and DNP3). I was presenting the...
Kelly Jackson Higgins Interviews Dale

Kelly Jackson Higgins Interviews Dale

3 Mar 2020 | 2020, Podcast

The tables are turned in this episode of the Unsolicited Response podcast with Kelly Jackson Higgins of Dark Reading interviewing Dale in the S4x20 Green Room. Kelly has been coming to S4 and covering the ICS security space for over seven years, and this experience...

Everyone Can Play In OT / ICS Security

27 Feb 2020 | 2020

Seth Godin wrote this in a recent daily blog post: You Can’t Say You Can’t Play. Lenny Levine was a great kindergarten teacher. And he ran his class by this one rule. It means that if another kid comes along, you need to include them in your game....
Securing Closed Loop ICS Cloud Services

Securing Closed Loop ICS Cloud Services

13 Feb 2020 | 2019

Technology Is Available … Is The Will There? Bryan Owen of OSIsoft defined, and perhaps coined, ICS cloud services as being open loop or closed loop. Securing open loop cloud services is simple. Just push the data out to the cloud for predictive maintenance,...
Megan Samford – ICS4ICS

Megan Samford – ICS4ICS

12 Feb 2020 | 2020, Podcast

Dale Peterson interviews Megan Samford of Rockwell Automation in the S4x20 Green Room. The main topic is Megan’s idea of an Incident Command System for Industrial Control Systems (ICS4ICS). While working for the State of Virginia, Megan was active with and saw...

2019 – What Changed in ICS Security?

5 Feb 2020 | 2020

Increase In Community Size/Talent and “The Dip” In December I was preparing my 15-minute mini-keynote to kick off for S4x20 in January, and I was having a hard time finding anything truly unique or significant change in ICS security in 2019. So I asked...