Women In ICS Security Wednesday

Women In ICS Security Wednesday

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...
Autobahn 301-Level Training Day Agenda

Autobahn 301-Level Training Day Agenda

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...
Two Free S4x22 Basic Sponsor Spots

Two Free S4x22 Basic Sponsor Spots

The Cabana Sessions are a highlight of S4 every year. The social time around the pool in the warm weather gives attendees time to establish and renew relationships and have leisurely discussions. The sponsors who have Cabanas are a part of this as we hope they will...
It’s Out! Top 20 Secure PLC Coding Practices

It’s Out! Top 20 Secure PLC Coding Practices

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...
Call For Presentations Is Open!

Call For Presentations Is Open!

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...

S4’s Why

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...
Limits: S4x21 Cancelled

Limits: S4x21 Cancelled

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...
Making Six S4x20 Ideas Happen

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 ideas you thought had merit....
Making Six S4x20 Ideas Happen

Create The Future of OT & ICS Security

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...
Autobahn 301-Level Training Day Agenda

Selecting The ICS Pwn2Own Targets

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...