SANS 2019 State of OT ICS Cybersecurity Survey

In this research project webcast, SANS experts Doug Wylie and Barb Filkins, with advisor and SANS instructor Jason Dely, will examine the current state of known and perceived cybersecurity risks, threats and potential impacts to industrial and automation control systems that are applied within the Operational Technology (OT) domain.

Security practitioners and risk managers from energy (oil, gas, electricity), nuclear, water/wastewater, aviation and aerospace, automotive, transportation, food and beverage, agriculture, metals and mining, chemical and pharmaceutical, and defense will share how they perceive threats, challenges and solutions to securing a strong ICS, SCADA, distributed control system (DCS), process control system (PCS) and building automation/control and management system (BAS/BCS/BMS).

Webcast attendees will learn how adeptly we are safeguarding operations and protecting human and company capital from a range of technical and non-technical cybersecurity risks that stem from threats that include malicious and unintentional insiders and outsiders.

Speaker Bios

Jason Dely

Jason Dely, SANS instructor for ICS515: ICS Active Defense and Incident Response, directs the ICS and critical infrastructure services and product business for Cylance Inc. He has more than 17 years of operational, technical and security experience, spanning multiple industry verticals, such as power utility, water utility, oil and gas, manufacturing, mining and chemical.

Barbara Filkins

Barbara Filkins, SANS Research Director, holds several SANS certifications, including the GSEC, GCIH, GCPM, GLEG and GICSP, the CISSP, and an MS in information security management from the SANS Technology Institute. She has done extensive work in system procurement, vendor selection and vendor negotiations as a systems engineering and infrastructure design consultant. Barbara focuses on issues related to automation—privacy, identity theft and exposure to fraud, plus the legal aspects of enforcing information security in today’s mobile and cloud environments, particularly in the health and human services industry, with clients ranging from federal agencies to municipalities and commercial businesses.

Doug Wylie

Doug Wylie directs the SANS Industrials and Infrastructure business portfolio, helping companies fulfill business objectives to manage security risks and develop a security-effective workforce. His lengthy career spans a wide array of industries. He served as Rockwell Automation’s director of product security risk management, where he founded and led its industrial cybersecurity and risk management program. Doug works around the world with companies, industry and standards bodies, and government entities to help safeguard converged IT-OT systems from contemporary cybersecurity threats. He holds the CISSP certification and numerous patents, as well as being an accomplished writer, speaker and presenter.