Preliminary Agenda |
Topics to be addressed during the conference include (but are not limited to):
Business, Regulatory, and Management Issues
Industry professionals who are interested in delivering a presentation on one of the above (or similar) topics are encouraged to submit a speaking proposal to info@nextgencybersecurity.com. Please review the Call for Speakers for guidance.
Business, Regulatory, and Management Issues
- Ramifications of a utility cyber attack: Impact on business models, operations, and customer relations
- Policy and regulatory developments impacting utility cyber security
- Making the business case for effective cyber security investment
- Evolution of the threat landscape: Recent developments and trends
- Building a culture of security across departments
- Adopting an integrated approach: converging IT, OT and physical security
- NERC CIP recent devleopments and implications
- Securing the distribution network: understanding the costs, developing policy and strategy
- Prioritizing investments and resources for greatest effectiveness
- Utility cyber security in an emerging world of IoT connectivity
- Threat assessment and modeling
- Holistic, end-to-end approaches to cyber and physical security
- Common misunderstandings and pitfalls surrounding adequate security
- Incident and aftermath management: best practices
- Key take aways from reccent utility case studies
- Beyond the firewall: technology advances for superior intrusion detection and mitigation
- Securing an increasingly wireless M2M environment for utility infrastructure
- The state of ICS/SCADA malware and how best to respond
- Monitoring and detecting unusual user behavior
- Real-time,advanced threat monitoring technologies and applications
- Cyber attack simulation software and modeling advances
- Current national laboratory and academia R&D projects in the area of cyber security
- Key lessons learned from the Ukraine cyber attack
- Use of drones in ensuring physical infrastructure security
- Leveraging Big Data analytics to enhance securith
- Deep-packet inspection advances
- Automating the response to cyber incidents
- What works, what doesn't, in upgrading and implementing cyber security technologies
- Implementing effective high-fidelity access control
- Cyber security at the transmission level
Industry professionals who are interested in delivering a presentation on one of the above (or similar) topics are encouraged to submit a speaking proposal to info@nextgencybersecurity.com. Please review the Call for Speakers for guidance.