S4x24 By The Numbers

S4x24 By The Numbers

There were 1,069 attendees from 33 countries at S4x24. 296 asset owners (more on this below) 296 OT security vendors (coincidence) 214 consultants and integrators 97 ICS vendors (companies that sell ICS, Emerson, Honeywell, RA, SE, Siemens, …) The rest are others...
S4x24 Swag

S4x24 Swag

We have a lot of fun putting together the swag bag every year. Here’s what’s at S4x24: Attendee Swag Bag Clothing: 1st Time S4 Attendee (since 2022): Black or white Create The Future pullover hoodie. 2nd Time S4 Attendee (since 2022): Create The Future jogger (new...
Secure By Design Sessions & Activities

Secure By Design Sessions & Activities

S4 first covered Secure By Design in 2008 with Steve Lipner of Microsoft and the Security Development Lifecycle as the keynote for S4x08, and there have been many sessions on it in the intervening 16 years. The CISA dual initiatives of Secure By Design and trying to...
S4x24 Hotel Room Availability / Last Call For Tickets

S4x24 Hotel Room Availability / Last Call For Tickets

All S4 room blocks at the Loews Miami Beach and Surfcomber are sold out. We’ve had many requests for a room at the beautiful Loews Miami Beach Hotel. Our room block sold out months ago. Over that time there have been some cancellations. Loews is reopening the...
Ticket Block 751 – 1000 On Sale (Last Chance For Most)

Ticket Block 751 – 1000 On Sale (Last Chance For Most)

We will keep this short. The S4x24 venue at the Loews Miami Beach regrettably limits us to 1,100 tickets. We sold ticket 750 on December 1st; we are now in ticket block 751 – 1000. The last 100 tickets, 1001 – 1100 will be restricted to asset owners. (any...
Women In ICS Security Program Announced

Women In ICS Security Program Announced

The S4x24 Women In ICS Security program will be back again for a third year with the effort led by a great team of volunteers. We had a record 217 women this year at S4x23. Quite a change from when there were just a handful of the women in a sea of men at these...
S4x24 Agenda Is Up

S4x24 Agenda Is Up

We have posted the first draft of the S4x24 agenda. The agenda has titles and speakers for ~95% of the sessions on the three S4 Stages. We will be filling in the descriptions for these sessions in November. The speaker page is also up and being populated by the...
Ticket Limits

Ticket Limits

We wanted to provide some more information and rationale behind S4x24 ticket limits for all organizations except for asset owners. First, we have found great value in having attendees from ICS security product and consulting vendors, ICS vendors, national labs and...
S4 Hotel Update

S4 Hotel Update

S4x24 will be held at the Loews Miami Beach. In the first three days of registration we had over 200 of the 325 rooms reserved. We have been able to add 75 rooms to the block for a total of 400 rooms, and we won’t be able to add more. You need a S4x24 ticket to...