The South Beach Pool Party will be at the Surfcomber Hotel on Thursday after the S4 Technical Sessions. We are pleased to announce the entertainment for the party … The Aqualillies! This synchronized swimming group will perform a few numbers in the great...
S4x15 attendees have some choices for the Friday activity. There is the ICSage: ICS Cyber Weapons conference and now two one-day advanced training classes. We pick classes that will teach students with the right experience a new, leading edge skill in one day. These...
This year we have a fun addition to the S4 Cocktail Party held on the Kovens Center deck overlooking the Intracoastal Waterway … drones. We are bringing in CineDrones to let attendees fly a drone through an obstacle course. They claim the drones are virtually...
We have added Kim Zetter, author of Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World’s First Digital Weapon, to the S4x15 Week Agenda. We will have Kim onstage for a live interview as part of ICSage on Friday. I’ll have a few questions, but we...
Sean McBride’s Finding SCADA Honeypots on Shodan article is a twist on the Internet connected ICS story. He finds 58 Conpots and 67 honeypots listed as Water Control Valve #27. Two points in this article. One, some basic analysis is required to weed out...
Stephen Hilt and a team of volunteers are working furiously on the ICS Village for S4x15. The ICS Village at S4x14 had a large amount of ICS devices, 6 different vendor PLC’s, HMI, industrial switches, historians, …, and we allowed attendees to play and...
CRISP (Cyber Security Risk Information Sharing Program) is a US Department of Energy (DoE) program with two related efforts underway to meet the goals. There can be cases where the Market, in this case energy companies, are not sufficient to support a product or...
This past Sunday’s edition of This Week With George Stephanopoulos had a 7-minute segment on critical infrastructure cyber security prompted by the BlackEnergy malware. The lead in by ABC’s Pierre Thomas was particularly bad and conflated attacks on...
The CLUSIF (Club de la sécurité de l’information français) has issued “an overview of existing documents, standards, guidelines and best practices” (link is for the document in English). The 24-page document gives an overview of the most popular and useful...
We added a bunch of info to the S4x15 site including the newly designed banner, see below. We are almost through the first 50 tier ticket pricing (42 sold). “DHS ICS-CERT” and FBI announced, a bit clumsily, that they will be touring 13 cities across the US...
