Thursday, February 3, 2011
9:30 AM - 11:00 AM (GMT -07:00) Mountain (USA, Canada)
Language: English
Webcast Information
Stuxnet has been a serious wake-up call for industrial process control systems (PCS). Not only was it the first widespread attack on PCS, it was one of the most sophisticated pieces of malware ever written. The good news is that very little
real damage has been reported here in North America. However, the most disturbing aspect of Stuxnet is that it furnishes an almost perfect roadmap for future malware targeting PCS.
Join this webcast as our guest cyber security experts from Honeywell and Byres Security discuss aspects of Stuxnet such as:
- how it spreads, what it attacks, what damage it can cause
- applicability of using specific security controls like whitelisting on control systems
- what your organization can do to protect itself
Follow our live feeds on Twitter throughout this presentation: #MTKwebcast #Stuxnet
With guest presenters:
Eric J. Byres is
internationally regarded as one of the leading experts in the field of SCADA
and Industrial Security. As founder of the BCIT Critical Infrastructure Security
Centre, he shaped it into one of North America's leading academic facilities in
the field of SCADA cyber-security, culminating in a SANS Institute Security
Leadership Award in 2006. He is also the chair of the
ISA SP-99 Security Technologies Working Group and is the Canadian
representative for IEC TC65/WG10 standards effort for the protection of
industrial facilities from cyber attack. Eric’s achievements include
testifying to the US Congress on the “Security of Industrial Control Systems in
National Critical Infrastructures” as well as receiving numerous awards from
the IEEE, ISA and SANS for his research on security solutions.
Kevin Staggs, CISSP is an Engineering Fellow and a 33-year employee of
Honeywell. He has 26 years of experience in the engineering of control systems
as a hardware, software and systems engineer. Kevin recently joined Honeywell’s
Advanced Technology Lab as a cyber security research engineer. In his previous
assignment he was responsible for the security architecture of all Honeywell
Process Solutions products including defining the security processes and
architectural methodology. Kevin has been involved in system security since
Honeywell first introduced open system platform based products. Kevin is
co-chair of ISA SP99 Working Group 4 which is defining technical security
requirements of industrial and automation control systems and is the technical
chairman of the ISA Security Compliance Institute.
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Instructor Information
Rick Kaun
BA, CCIT
Rick Kaun is the manager of Honeywell's Industrial IT Solutions group, which has implemented a wide range of consulting projects such as cyber security audits, due diligence evaluations and complete infrastructure design, procurement and deployment. Rick is a frequent lecturer and participant in a number of industrial cyber security initiatives. Most notable is his status as a voting member of the Control Systems Security Working Group for NERC, founding member of the NPRA cyber security committee, and voting member of the ISA SP99 part 4 team. Rick has also been published in a number of industry-based magazines on the topic of cyber security.