2020 ICS Cyber Security Conference | USA

Trains, Trucks, Ships, Drills, Power Stations, Oil Platforms and other process control networks are increasingly becoming connected and automated. This can increase production through real time monitoring and access to data insights which aide in overall efficiencies.

Industrial Control Systems are built to be fault tolerant, highly available, fail-safe systems, the life of which are determined by the process that these systems are there to support such as an oil reservoir or an ore body.

Automation is changing this and now business requirements for real time analytics means there is a steady flow of information into and out of these connected highly sensitive networks.

As Industrial Control Systems become more and more connected what are we doing to secure them?

Most high criticality control systems are by nature already very complex systems and due to their fail safe design, has a lot of benefits we in the cyber world can use to help protect our teams from the worst case scenario.

This session will demonstrate that not all control systems are the same, and just how important understanding the process being controlled is from a cyber perspective.

This talk will help answer the question "How can we align the cyber security of OT systems to our engineering, quality assurance and health and safety teams more mature view of the control systems landscape?"