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How DHS and Industry Are Protecting U.S. SCADA Systems
A Critical Infrastructure Insights Seminar From the BearingPoint-CIC DHS Mentor/Protégé Program
10:00 am
Welcome and IntroductionMark Sauter, COO, Chesapeake Innovation Center Briefing
10:05 - 10:45 am
Insights from David Sanders, Senior Manager, BearingPoint Critical Infrastructure Protection Practice ex-DHS Director of Critical Infrastructure Protection-Cyber Security
10: 45 - 11:15 am
Discussion and Q&A
Before joining BearingPoint in 2005, Sanders served as director for the Control Systems Center within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) National Cyber Security Division (NCSD) and was formerly the Director of Critical Infrastructure Protection - Cyber Security. Sanders was charged with enhancing the cyber security posture and reducing the cyber-based vulnerabilities of Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems and other distributed and process control systems within the nation's critical infrastructure. Additionally, Mr. Sanders was responsible for coordination of control system security efforts between industry, government, and academic partners and industry associations. During his tenure, Mr. Sanders oversaw a National Strategy for Control Systems Security, defined the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) vulnerability assessment and incident response methodologies for control systems cyber security incidents, and established the National Control Systems Security and Test Center, at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratories (INEEL).
About SCADA:
From The (U.S.) National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace: Many industries in America have radically transformed the way they control and monitor equipment over the last 20 years by employing digital control systems (DCS) and supervisory control and data acquisition systems (SCADA). DCS/SCADA are computer-based systems that are used by many infrastructures and industries to remotely control sensitive processes and physical functions that once had to be controlled manually. DCS and SCADA are present in almost every sector of the economy including water, transportation, chemicals, energy, and manufacturing, among others. Increasingly DCS/SCADA systems use the Internet to transmit data rather than the closed networks used in the past. Securing DCS/SCADA is a national priority. Disruption of these systems can have significant consequences for public health and safety.
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