SCADA Security Summit

Early in September I got an email from the folks at scadasec@news.infracritical.com, a SCADA security discussion group about an upcoming SCADA security conference. Its taken me a couple of weeks to getting around to writing about the conference, but it will be held in December, so you still have plenty of time to register if you are interested. The SCADA and Control System Security Summit will be held in Washington, D.C. on December 7th thru 9th. The actual conference will be held on the 8th and 9th with a number of pre-conference workshops held on the 7th. According to the Summit brochure those workshops will include:

Introduction to Enhancing Control Systems Security from the Department of Homeland Security, conducted by Jeffrey Hahn, Training & Education, DHS Control Systems Security Program, Idaho National Laboratory Mitigating Risk and Increasing Audit-ability of SCADA Systems with Best-in-Class Configuration and Change Management Strategies, conducted by Walter Sikora, VP Security Solutions, Industrial Defender Conducting Full-Risk Assessments and Identifying Critical System Assets to Fortify Security & Enable Process Control Redesign, conducted by Michael Toecker, Control Systems Security Designer, Compliance & Infrastructure Protection, Burns & McDonnell Engineering

This conference is targeted at the corporate executive level. It will provide a high-level understanding of the SCADA threat and actions that companies can take to protect their systems from a variety of cyber threats. While no one will expect the attendees of this conference to write any code, they will be the ones to write the checks for the security efforts.