S4 is …

Optimistic … Forward Looking … Creative … Driving Change

Set free a conservative, slow moving, change resistant community to discover new ideas and come up with innovative ways to use these new ideas to deploy secure, resilient and better ICS. 719 of the world’s best in OT and ICS Security attended S4x20. S4x21 was lost to Covid. Now S4x22 is coming back bigger and better.

S4x22 is 3 days on 3 stages plus an optional Monday training day. Of course, the content will be bleeding edge and great. We know that interacting with your fellow attendees is key. The Welcome Party, Cabana Sessions, Craft Beer Bash, sunny and warm environment, Pwn2Own, ICSsec experiences will provide time and opportunity for you to meet and re-establish relationships with the best in world who are driving change in our community.

Create The Future of OT and ICS Security at S4x22

25 – 27 January 2022 in Miami South Beach

Call For Presentations Is Open!

Take Your Place On The S4x22 Stage

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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 ideas you...

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

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...

Automation and Process Vulnerabilities in PLC’s and Controllers

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, most...

Is S4x20 For You?

Optimistic ... Forward Looking ... Creative ... Driving Change Set free a conservative, slow moving, change resistant community to discover new ideas and come up with innovative ways to use these new ideas to deploy secure, resilient and better ICS. I'm a big fan of...