Jan 10, 2025 | Blog, S4 News
We are pleased to announce that MIT Professor Nancy Leveson will keynote at the S4x25 conference, Feb 11-13 in Tampa. If you are in the safety community, you likely already know who Nancy is and might have read some of her books. I’ve followed her work for years, and...
Jan 4, 2025 | Blog, S4 News
We have four Sector Birds Of A Feather Get Togethers at S4x25. Manufacturing Electric Oil & Gas Water We are thinking about adding a Food & Beverage. There are 16 asset owner attendees in that sector. More than before as this sector gets involved, but still a...
Dec 10, 2024 | AgendaArticles, Blog, S4 News
OT Security training quickly went from lacking to plentiful. How do you choose between the various training offerings? We hope to help S4x25 attendees make this decision for themselves and their colleagues (many S4 attendees are leaders in their company’s OT...
Dec 5, 2024 | AgendaArticles, Blog, S4 News
The S4x25 Vulnerability Management Pavilion Challenges Comparing Products If you’ve ever been in the market for an OT vulnerability management product you likely have seen many vendor demos. Not surprisingly every demo shows an accurate asset inventory and list...
Nov 21, 2024 | AgendaArticles, Blog, S4 News
Few topics get as much heat as the current, future, and ideal relationship between OT and IT. One of the first posts someone just discovering OT makes is how OT is different than IT. As you dig deeper into OT you find an increasing case of the technology, processes,...
Nov 7, 2024 | AgendaArticles, Blog, S4 News
S4 is not the place to hear lessons learned on the OT / IT security perimeter, MFA for remote access, or other OT security projects that the early adopters have been doing for a decade plus. S4 does put asset owners on stage who are pioneers in deploying new,...
Oct 31, 2024 | AgendaArticles, Blog, S4 News
The Secure By Design guidance universally prioritizes using memory safe languages to prevent overflow and other vuln classes. This is not new. Adam Crain presented Applying The Rust Programming Language back at S4x20, over four years ago. The challenge, especially in...
Oct 23, 2024 | AgendaArticles, Blog
At S4x18 we had ten OT security 101 sessions in a training track called the OnRamp. Those sessions are available online in a playlist on the S4 Events YouTube channel. If you are a video learner, I still believe they are the best way to get up to speed quickly on OT...
Oct 15, 2024 | Blog, S4 News
Version 1.0 of the S4x25 agenda is now posted. It has about 80% of the session titles and speakers posted four months prior to the event. In October and November we will be announcing the keynotes and fireside chats, adding session details, filling in a few more...
Sep 23, 2024 | Blog, S4 News
We’ve had book signings every year at S4 since Rob Lee’s SCADA And Me and Thomas Rid’s Cyber War Will Not Take Place at S4x14. Back then even a diligent collector would have a small bookshelf of OT & ICS Security books. Not anymore. There are...
