Applied Control Solutions (ACS) will host the 10th ICS Cyber Security Conference in the Washington DC area September 20-23, 2010. The ICS Cyber Security Conference is an international information sharing conference explicitly focused on securing ICSs. The target audience is ICS and IT security personnel, government regulators, legislators’ staff, DOD, and academia. There have already been numerous ICS cyber incidents including major electric outages, shutdowns of nuclear power plants, Smart Grid incidents, water system failures, pipeline failures involving fatalities, and transportation accidents involving fatalities. Lack of adequate ICS cyber security understanding can be critical as a number of these ICS cyber incidents did not violate IT security policies or in some cases were actually caused by inappropriate policies, technologies, or testing. As in past conferences, end-users will share their experiences including actual ICS cyber incidents and there will be demonstrations of ICS (not IT) cyber vulnerabilities. Additionally, vendors will display their solutions. Last year, two members of Congress and senior regulatory representatives provided keynotes and stayed to answer questions. For more information, please contact [email protected].
Joe Weiss
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