12th Cyber Security Summit presentation

Oct. 4, 2022
Joe Weiss to give keynote presentation at the 12th Cyber Security Summit in Minneapolis

October 26th at 8:30am, I will be giving one of the keynote presentations at the 12th Cyber Security Summit in Minneapolis - https://www.cybersecuritysummit.org/. This will be my first in-person presentation since the start of the pandemic (more than 2 years).

The title of my presentation is “Narrowing the Gap - A Unilateral Understanding of Engineering and Network Security” or “The risks of cutting corners to put a square peg in a round hole”. The presentation will address the gaps in control system cyber security, the recent Moody’s Heat Map that identifies critical infrastructures to be at VERY HIGH RISK, and a proposed approach to make control system field devices inaccessible to IT/OT network cyberattacks while improving reliability, safety, and productivity. The singular OT network-centric focus has ignored a cyber path that offensive cyber attackers have used to cause physical damage - the cyber insecure control system field devices.

The reason for the alternate title of square peg and round hole is that IT and OT organizations that use inappropriate IT/OT network security technologies, pen testing, and security policies have impacted control systems – the cure being worse than the disease.

Joe Weiss

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Joe Weiss P.E., CISM, is managing partner of Applied Control Solutions, LLC, in Cupertino, CA. Formerly of KEMA and EPRI, Joe is an international authority on cybersecurity. You can contact him at [email protected]