S4 is …

Optimistic … Forward Looking … Creative … Driving Change

Set free a conservative, slow moving, change resistant community to discover new ideas and come up with innovative ways to use these new ideas to deploy secure, resilient and better ICS. 719 of the world’s best in OT and ICS Security attended S4x20. S4x21 was lost to Covid. Now S4x22 is coming back bigger and better.

S4x22 is 3 days on 3 stages plus an optional Monday training day. Of course, the content will be bleeding edge and great. We know that interacting with your fellow attendees is key. The Welcome Party, Cabana Sessions, Craft Beer Bash, sunny and warm environment, Pwn2Own, ICSsec experiences will provide time and opportunity for you to meet and re-establish relationships with the best in world who are driving change in our community.

Create The Future of OT and ICS Security at S4x22

25 – 27 January 2022 in Miami South Beach

Call For Presentations Is Open!

Take Your Place On The S4x22 Stage

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Two Free S4x22 Basic Sponsor Spots

The Cabana Sessions are a highlight of S4 every year. The social time around the pool in the warm weather gives attendees time to establish and renew relationships and have leisurely discussions. The sponsors who have Cabanas are a part of this as we hope they will...

It’s Out! Top 20 Secure PLC Coding Practices

It began with Jake Brodsky's S4x20 session on tips and tricks he had learned in his long career with a water utility to improve the resiliency, maintenance and security of a PLC and the underlying physical process. Today, it results in the release of Version 1.0 of...

Call For Presentations Is Open!

The S4x22 Call For Presentations is open June 1 - August 15th. Submit your session idea and get on an S4 stage next January 25-27 in Miami South Beach. We are looking for great, advanced, new and important content to put before the OT and ICS Security Communities top...

S4’s Why

Last week I read Simon Sinek's new book, The Infinite Game. Worth reading, although I find his content more compelling when he is speaking, so Audible or YouTube may be the right way to go. This caused me to go back through my notes on Sinek's Start With Why. And this...

Limits: S4x21 Cancelled

Perhaps it's my fault for tempting fate with the tag line "No Limits" for S4x21. We were expanding the event into a second building and relooking at every aspect of the event with new eyes and No Limits. Unfortunately there are Limits to holding an event during COVID,...

Making Six S4x20 Ideas Happen

You attend a conference. Let's even say it is a great, inspiring conference full of new ideas (ahem ... S4). You head back home, and it is all to easy for your day-to-day challenges to overwhelm any thoughts of pursuing even the ideas you thought had merit. So one of...