ICS/SCADA Breakfast Sandwich, with a Side of Weapons

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The world relies on ICS (Industrial Control System)/SCADA systems such as the electrical power grid for seemingly mundane daily tasks, like preparing your morning breakfast sandwich. Today’s ICS attacks are well-funded and orchestrated campaigns of destruction using cyberweapons. ICS installations have certainly improved their security posture this last decade, but there’s always room for improvement in ensuring reliability when turning on your electric stovetop to make breakfast! Like sweet lingering tones of citrus and dark chocolate in your favorite Scotch, the presentation also has an undertone of how today’s media can assist security awareness programs, while Stuxnet, Havex and Blackenergy3 malware elbows their way in for an appearance.