Oct 20, 2021 | AgendaArticles, Blog, S4 News
This may be the best 3-session keynote block ever at S4. Niloofar Razi Howe will kick off the day with a keynote, and then Dale Peterson will interview CISA Director Jen Easterly and Google’s Phil Venables. And since this is Women In ICS Security Wednesday, any...
Oct 13, 2021 | Blog, S4 News
Reid Wightman used to run an epic ICS Capture The Flag (CTF) event at S4 that had many teams working around the clock in a very competitive contest. The S4 CTF was retired at S4x20, and replaced with the Pwn2Own competition. Still there were many past attendees who...
Oct 6, 2021 | Blog, S4 News
Ten years ago, at S4x12, we sprang Project Basecamp on the world and showed the scope and impact of insecure by design and vulnerable PLCs and Level 1 devices. So it is only fitting that S4x22 has some bleeding edge Purdue Model Level 1 security sessions. It begins...
Sep 17, 2021 | AgendaArticles, S4 News
Women represent 51% of the population, and 60% of those attending college today. And yet only about 10% of the ICS security community are women. It often is difficult for women to enter and thrive in the male dominated, sometimes hostile, and often intentionally and...
Sep 8, 2021 | AgendaArticles, Blog
How do we follow up the 101-Level Onramp training and 201-Level Highway training? Of course, by heading out on the Autobahn with 301-Level training on the Monday prior to S4x22, January 24th. The more advanced content requires longer sessions, so the Autobahn will...
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...
