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April General Meeting
2024 Cyber Attacks on OT Systems + Defensive Developments
Speaker: Andrew Ginter, VP Industrial Security,
Waterfall Security
The 2025 threat report is out from Waterfall & ICS Strive: 76 attacks with physical consequences in 2024 in heavy industry impacted over 1000 physical sites, nation-state attacks tripled, and more ICS/OT-capable malware was discovered in 2024 than the previous 5 years combined. Andrew covers all this and more, and then digs into the most important defensive developments, including: new cross-agency advice to stop using VPNs for remote access, new guidance asking questions about safety systems nobody else has asked, and a change in how we look at OT cyber risk - no longer "how likely is the attack?" but "how credible is the consequence?" Ask different questions, and we get different answers...
Andrew is a co-author of the threat report, has worked in OT / automation systems for 35 years with the last 20 in OT security, is the author of 3 books on the topic, and co-host of the Industrial Security Podcast, if you'd like to dig deeper.
707 Fifth
707 - 5 St. S.W.
Third floor conference room C
There is $3 parking after 16:00 one block south of the meeting location, at the Centennial Parkade (Lot 54).
5:30 PM, Tuesday, April 29, 2025
N.B. This is the fifth Tuesday of the month.
Snacks at 17:30. Meeting begins at 18:00.
Attendance is free for CUUG members, or $10 (cash or e-transfer) at the door for non-CUUG members.
RSVP to office at CUUG if you plan to attend.