Jun 15, 2021 | Blog, S4 News
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...
May 31, 2021 | Blog, S4 News
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...
May 14, 2021 | Blog, Culture, S4 News
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...
Oct 1, 2020 | Blog, S4 News
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...
Mar 15, 2020 | Blog, S4 News
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...
Oct 29, 2019 | Blog, S4 News
I worked closely with the Pwn2Own Miami team to provide some advice on selecting targets and introduce them to the people in the community that could help ensure the targets are highly realistic. There are three main criteria that makes a great ICS Pwn2Own target in...
Oct 28, 2019 | Blog, S4 News
Prizes available up to $25K per exploit and more than $250K available. This has been a hard secret to keep. When I asked the team at Trend Micro’s ZDI in late spring if they would be interested in having an ICS Pwn2Own to be held at S4x20, they had already been...
Oct 23, 2019 | AgendaArticles, Blog
There are three Stage 2: Technical Deep Dive Sessions on a new area in ICS security. So new that it doesn’t have a name yet, and perhaps one will be coined at S4x20. This new area is the security is related to the way a process is coded into the Level 1 device,...
