Internet-connected industrial control systems (ICS) and operational technology (OT) are common targets for attackers seeking to steal data or disrupt operations. These systems monitor critical infrastructure and complex industrial processes that operate power grids, transportation, manufacturing and other services.
Join Clint Bodungen, CEO of ThreatGEN and Pascal Ackerman, Managing Director of Threat Services at ThreatGEN for a discussion on industrial control system cybersecurity.
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Clint Bodungen, Founder, President & CEO, ThreatGEN
Clint Bodungen is an industry-recognized ICS cybersecurity expert and has been an active part of this ICS Cybersecurity Community since 2003. He has more than 20 years of overall professional experience in cybersecurity, with more than a decade focused exclusively on ICS security. Throughout his career, Clint has specialized primarily in ICS cybersecurity research, penetration testing, and risk analysis with notable organizations such as the United States Air Force, cybersecurity vendors Symantec, and Kaspersky Lab, and major consulting firms such as Booz Allen Hamilton.
The majority of his clientele has consisted of many of the world’s largest energy organizations in the Oil & Gas and Electric Utility industries. He is the lead author of the book, “Hacking Exposed, Industrial Control Systems”, teaches ICS cybersecurity training courses around the world, and has been speaking at multiple ICS cybersecurity conferences annually since 2004.
In his personal life, Clint is a volunteer cybersecurity mentor to high school and college students in his local community, and an avid hobbyist video game developer (hoping to merge advanced computer gaming technology with industrial cybersecurity and help usher in the next generation of young ICS cybersecurity professionals).
Pascal Ackerman, Managing Director of Threat Services, ThreatGEN
Pascal Ackerman is a seasoned industrial security professional with a degree in electrical engineering and with 18 years of experience in industrial network design and support, information and network security, risk assessments, pentesting, threat hunting, and forensics.
After almost two decades of hands-on, in-the-field and consulting experience, he joined ThreatGEN in 2019 and is currently employed as Principal Analyst in Industrial Threat Intelligence & Forensics. His passion lies in analyzing new and existing threats to ICS environments and he fights cyber adversaries both from his home base and while traveling the world with his family as a digital nomad.
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