Podcast: S4x20 Closing Panel

Podcast: S4x20 Closing Panel

Ralph Langner of Langner, Inc. and Zach Tudor of INL join me on the S4x20 Closing Panel. This is always one of the most fun and highly rated session at S4. https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/unsolicitedresponse/2020-11_S4x21_Closing_Panel.mp3 We cover a lot of ground...
Interview with Inventor & Legend Ed Schweitzer

Interview with Inventor & Legend Ed Schweitzer

This podcast is the audio from my S4x20 Main Stage interview with electric sector and ICS legend Ed Schweitzer. He was the perfect person to interview related to the event theme: Create The Future in OT and ICS security. It’s a wide ranging and fun interview....
Podcast: Interview with Bryan Owen of OSIsoft

Podcast: Interview with Bryan Owen of OSIsoft

Winner of the 2020 Michael J. Assante ICS Security Lifetime Achievement Award Bryan and I were scheduled to go skiing prior to ICSJWG in Park City. With that squashed we decided to record a podcast instead. Bryan and I begin with what winning the Michael J. Assante...

Podcast: Tenable’s OT Strategy with Marty Edwards

Marty Edwards has worked for an ICS asset owner, INL, DHS, ISA and late last year he made the move to a security product vendor, Tenable. This happened at the same time that Tenable acquired Indegy for $78M, indicating they are serious about OT security space. I talk...

Podcast: ICS Threat Intel with Sergio Caltagirone

Sergio began his career doing threat intelligence in the US Government’s NSA and now is the VP of Threat Intel at Dragos. We focus in this episode on where the data for threat intel is obtained, how the threat intel product is created, and how it should be used...

Solarium Report Eclipsed By Pandemic

And This Is A Good Thing The long awaited U.S. Cyberspace Solarium Commission Report came out and received very little attention given more pressing pandemic events. And this is a good thing. I’ll provide some critique and then, to be fair, provide my...
Create The Future Of OT & ICS Security

Create The Future Of OT & ICS Security

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

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...