My initial alarm on the term Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT) occurred at the ARC Forum this February. I was stunned that basic DCS, SCADA and other ICS functions that have been occurring for decades were called IIOT. In fact ARC was taking well understood, more...
We will provide five lucky students a free ticket to attend S4x16, Jan 12-14 in Miami South Beach. If you want one of these tickets send an email to s4@digitalbond.com and describe your ICSsec qualifications, any current related research project, and why you want...
Register for S4x16 Now We are pleased to announce another big name and interesting speaker for the S4x16 Main Stage. Richard Bejtlich, Chief Security Strategist of FireEye, will present The Revolution in Private Sector Intelligence as the closing Keynote of S4x16. You...
Register now for S4x16 Another great speaker added to the S4x16 Main Stage agenda. General Michael V. Hayden will give the Keynote Address on the Main Stage on the first day of S4x16, Tuesday January 12th. Gen. Hayden is a former CIA and former NSA Director during the...
I think Ernie would smile (is smiling) about how this came about. We wanted Robert Lee to teach a class at S4x16 on the Threat Intelligence process that professionals use, primarily to counteract the widespread unprofessional analysis we are seeing on ICS events....
We opened registration for S4x16 at noon EDT today, October 1st, as scheduled on the S4x16 site. A flurry of early purchases followed taking advantage of the first 50 ticket sale at $995, the same price as the original two-day S4x07. I expect those tickets to be gone...
We received a large number of session proposals describing cyber-physical attacks on ICS. While I’m not crazy about that term, it’s good to see the emphasis on looking at the engineering and automation required to reach the end goal of affecting the...
A number of people I respect greatly kept telling me to get Jason Healey to speak at S4 about cyber statecraft, cyber war, China, economics of cyber, … He certainly has the bio for it with his experience as a Director for Cyber Policy at the White House, Vice...
Ralph Langner of The Langner Group has been a speaker or attendee at every S4 since it began in 2007. And we are pleased to announce he will be back speaking at S4x16. His topic is: Critical Penetration Analysis – Turning the Art of Identifying Plant-Level...
S4 began is 2007, and we have never had a DHS or INL leader on stage to provide an overview of their programs, results and plans. These are incredibly useful sessions at an event for those new to ICS, but for the experienced S4 audience they are primarily an...
