5th annual Industrial Control Cyber Security USA Summit

How can Asset Owners Transform their Mindset to Become Security Focused?
- To what extent is security an afterthought to operational availability? Lee: does security interfere or compete with operations
- The importance of a holistic understanding of security at different organisational levels
-  What are the steps that can be taken to make meaningful progress towards adopting a security minded approach?
- How will security impact work practices, user behavior, and user attitudes?
Led by David Hanlon
Why Configuration Management Strategy is Essential to Security
- Secure out of the box is a myth
- Understanding that user capability is essential to security and acting accordingly
- What essential steps need to be taken to effectively manage accounts, administrators and patching to ensure our systems are secure
- How much configuration is necessary to customize security features for a site?
- How does the asset owner know what needs to be configured and what values are necessary?
Led by Lee Neitzel
What measures need to be taken to address the inadequacy of the resource stream at entry and mid-career level?
- What is currently in place to incentivize relevant skills development?
- Where are we lacking the necessary infrastructure to develop short, medium and long-term skills development in both the public and private sectors?
- What does a fit for purpose training and development standard look like?
- What objectives should be set and how can we sell the benefits of new initiatives?
Led by Tim Yardley
What needs to be prioritised to move towards more effective collection, processing and escalation of information on threats?
- How well defined is the threshold at which private sector threat information should be escalated to government authorities, and can we agree first on what should and must be shared?
- What do the mechanics of an effective information sharing infrastructure look like?
- To what extent do we have the national and transnational infrastructure in place to facilitate effective conversations?
Led by John Bryk
What barriers need to be overcome to move towards internationally accepted standards?
- Understanding the global landscape and competing regimes
- What mechanisms need to be developed to effectively incorporate the best elements of existing standards?
- How much room do existing standards leave for local interpretation and implementation?
Led by Andre Ristaino