New To S4x25: OT Security Training Roundup

New To S4x25: OT Security Training Roundup

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...
Agenda Highlight: Memory Safe Languages

Agenda Highlight: Memory Safe Languages

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...
OnRamp Sessions At S4x25

OnRamp Sessions At S4x25

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...
S4x25 Agenda V1.0 Is Up!

S4x25 Agenda V1.0 Is Up!

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...
OT Security Book Store At S4x25

OT Security Book Store At S4x25

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...
More Thursday Night Rooms Added At JW Marriott

More Thursday Night Rooms Added At JW Marriott

We were able to add 50 more rooms for Thursday night. This will be it for the block. Rooms now available Monday check in to Friday check out … while they last. Check your ticket email from Universe.com to get the link. And no need to arrive before Monday unless...
Tips For Your S4x25 Travel Plans (Updated Hotel Info)

Tips For Your S4x25 Travel Plans (Updated Hotel Info)

The S4x25 tickets are blowing out in the first 36 hours sale price (we are at ticket #447 at hour 22). Many ticketed attendees are already getting hotel reservations and making plane reservations. S4x25 is in a new venue and has a different schedule, especially with...