Gen. Michael Hayden is Day 1 Keynote at S4x16

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...

Ernie Rakaczky Scholarship Fund Benefit at S4x16

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....
S4x16 Registration is Open – Agenda Announced

S4x16 Registration is Open – Agenda Announced

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...

Let’s Get Physical and The Easy Button at S4x16

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...

Jason Healey on the Main Stage at S4x16

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 Back On The Main Stage at S4x16

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...

Dale Peterson Will Interview Marty Edwards at S4x16

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...

Mikko Hypponen at S4x16 / Registration Opens Oct 1st

The Main Stage at S4x16 is theater/concert size and quality, and it requires dynamic and interesting speakers and sessions … and we have an impressive lineup for you. A prime example is Mikko Hypponen who will be speaking on Cyber Geopolitics. Mikko will...

escar Asia

I attended and spoke at escar Asia (embedded security in cars) the last two days in Tokyo. Obviously the Miller/Valasek Jeep hack was referenced in almost every session and gave the event a sense of urgency. There were some very positive developments in the...

Unsolicited Response Podcast: Cyber Insurance

Who would have thought a podcast on insurance would be one of my favorite and most interesting I’ve done in the past few years. [powerpress] I spoke with Eireann Leverett and Jennifer Copic of the University of Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies. They were two of...