October 25, 2023 at 09:21AM
SecurityWeek’s 2023 ICS Cybersecurity Conference in Atlanta continues today with industrial cybersecurity stakeholders gathering for Day 2. Highlights include an interactive tabletop exercise for incident response, discussions on converging IT/OT security operations, assessing insider threats, securing industrial wireless infrastructure, emulating adversary actions, quantum computing’s impact on OT security, and using the NICE framework and digital twins to address workforce capability gaps.
Key Takeaways from the Meeting Notes:
1. The 2023 ICS Cybersecurity Conference is taking place in Atlanta.
2. The conference is focused on industrial cybersecurity.
3. Some video content from Day 1 of the conference is available on demand.
4. Several sessions from Tuesday, October 25th, will be live streamed.
5. ThreatGEN’s Clint Bodungen is hosting a breakfast session on incident response powered by generative AI.
6. US Marine Corps cyber analyst John Link discusses the daily life of a military security tester.
7. A panel will discuss best practices for converging IT/OT security operations, featuring representatives from ExxonMobil, the Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District, and Palo Alto Networks.
8. Bradley Nash of ExxonMobil discusses the consequences of compromised external network connections.
9. Roya Gordon, executive industry consultant at Hexagon’s Asset Lifecycle Intelligence division, speaks on assessing the risk of insider threats to industrial environments.
10. Scott McNeil, industrial network and security architect at Global Process Automation, covers securing industrial wireless infrastructure and understanding interference in wireless communications.
11. Blaine Jeffries, senior OT security engineer at MITRE, demonstrates the use of the ‘Caldera for OT’ cybersecurity framework.
12. Gerard Vidal, CTO of Opscura, discusses how quantum computing could impact OT security and increasing the longevity of cybersecurity solutions.
13. Representatives of the Institute for Information Industry propose using the NICE framework and the digital twins concept to address the workforce capability gap.