Westburne Symposium on Industrial Cyber Security

Cyber Security

 June 16, 2017

Westburne and partners are presenting a symposium on technologies, processes and practices designed to protect networks, computers and data from attack in the industrial space.

The event takes place June 21 in the BMO Centre’s Palomino Room, 20 Roundup Way SE, Calgary, AB T2G 2W1.

Special guests and their topics include the following:

  • Claroty Networks’s Brian Richwine. Gain extreme visibility to uncover advanced threats and malicious activity. Utilize real-time monitoring to detect human error and operational issues.
  • Tempered Networks’s Matt Senechal. Identity is the Future of Networking. Tempered Networks is pioneering the Identity-Defined Network market and driving a new identity paradigm, based on the host itself not a spoofable IP address.
  • Stratus’ Gary Fort. Cyber security and high availability: why is the host and “always on” availability critical when implementing Cyber Security in Operational Technology?
  • Cisco’s Robert Barton. Industrial security in the age of cyber warfare: this session will examine key industrial exploits that have emerged in recent years and what lessons can be learned. Also, how a systematic approach to industrial security that is built on best practices can help protect critical assets from cyber crime.
  • Tosibox’s Bill Behn. Your private OT highway. The IOT is simply a matter of connections. Toxibox’ mission is to create the world’s best and most secure remote connections between devices.
  • Westburne’s Jeff Brown. Intro to secure control system design — industry best practices for industrial control system (ICS) security. Threat mitigation through hardware and network design.

Register in advance here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/cyber-security-symposium-tickets-34524373330

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