We received great feedback and requests for more from the Birds of a Feather meetups at S4x25. We heard you and here’s the plan for S4x26.
- There will be Birds of a Feather formal meetups: Manufacturing, Electric, and Oil & Gas
- The meetups will be 2.5 hours long.
- The first 30-minutes and last 45-minutes are for networking
- The middle 75 minutes will include a 15-minute mini-keynote and then a moderated discussion around a set of topics. The moderator will introduce topics, ask questions, solicit opinions, and pass the microphone around to get a large number of participants involved. (Note: we did this to great effect at S4 when there were less than 100 attendees.
The topics for the moderated discussion are starting points, and if you have a suggestion for an alternate or additional topic email us at info@s4xevents.com.
We also can make the Birds of a Feather room available to other sectors for an informal session if there is someone or a group willing to take the lead.
Manufacturing: Tuesday 1:00 – 3:30
Mini Fireside Chat: Dale Peterson Interview Aron Semle
Discussion Moderator: Dale Peterson
Current Topics (subject to change)
- How best to address the business requirements for more “in depth” integrations with ERP / Quality / Telemetry / and other business systems? Is a co-mingling of technologies pushing the boundaries of current OT Cybersecurity Practices.
- Does using Purdue Model levels as a security architecture hurt business value more then the risk it is trying to prevent.
- Does manufacturing really need IEC 62443 Security Level 4?
Electric: Wednesday 10:30 – 1:00
Mini Keynote and Discussion Moderator: Patrick Miller
Current Topics (subject to change)
- How to secure a virtual power plant?
- BCSI in the cloud
- What does a private-public partnership look like beyond sharing IOCs? What does industry collective defense look like in a persistent landscape? How can asset owners assert more control/command over the areas we influence?
Oil & Gas Sector: Thursday 12:30 – 3:00
Mini Keynote and Discussion Moderator: TBD
Current Topics (subject to change):
- Incident Response – how much vendor reliance is healthy?
- OT control-and-command from private cloud and from private 5G/LTE mobile networks. What restrictions should be followed. and SCADA reliance on Telcoms – is everyone tunneling / encrypting?
- Integration of identity and data with IT and other systems.