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...
Create The Future of OT & ICS Security

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...
Selecting The ICS Pwn2Own Targets

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...
ZDI Brings Pwn2Own To ICS At S4x20

ZDI Brings Pwn2Own To ICS At S4x20

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...