The last year has highlighted just how vulnerable our critical infrastructure is to cyber threats. Our improvement journeys are all different, but our end goal is the same – achieve operational integrity and cyber resilience.
On March 23, 2022, we were honored to host 50 speakers—senior leaders and cybersecurity OT experts from across the globe—to share their experiences and insights. We are pleased to announce that the full agenda is now available on-demand.
Breaches continue to climb despite billions invested in cybersecurity. Are companies investing in the right security priorities? Former CEO Bob Dudley reflects on protecting one of the largest energy companies and mandates for today’s leaders.
Muqsit Ashraf
Senior Managing Director, Lead – Energy Industry Sector
McBride weighs in on the imperatives of a successful org structure with an emphasis on arguably the most universal OT security challenge—people. Hear insights on hiring, training and organizing for success.
Sean McBride
Industrial Cybersecurity Program Coordinator – Idaho State University
With thousands of new security technologies available (and more being added), where should you invest your money and confidence? This session will discuss the current vendor landscape and what executives should consider before inviting market newcomers to be a part of their security stack.
Dino Boukouris
Managing Director – Momentum Cyber
Rich Mahler
Managing Director – Accenture Security, Utilities Security Lead
Dale Peterson
Catalyst, S4 Events
Bob Ackerman
Founder & Managing Director – Allegis Cyber Capital
What is the best SOC build model and why? During his career, Souza has seen them all. Listen in as he hosts a peer-to-peer discussion on the pros and cons of these two SOC models.
Tony Souza
Director – Cybersecurity (CISO), CenterPoint Energy
James Costello
Chief Information Security Officer – Freeport-McMoRan
Showing project progress progressively is a challenge we hear echoed across industry lines. We’ll discuss how to balance the speed of business, the speed of progress and the key to keeping business operation owners engaged.
Paul Brownlee
Managing Director – Global Industrial Security Lead, Accenture
How and what you communicate to your board and CEO are critical skills for security executives. Gain expert advice on how to report performance, vulnerabilities, cyber resilience and more to leadership.
Yanni Charalambous
VP & CIO – OXY
Jim Guinn
Senior Managing Director – Security, Strategy & Consulting Lead, Accenture
The announcement of the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative has industry questioning the role public-private partnerships could play in protecting their org. We’ll discuss the fundamental components to build a strategy that drives collective defense.
Cybersecurity has rapidly shifted toward the use of SOAR Tools for discovery, detections, workflows, and more. Discussion points include existing automations focused on operations and future scenarios supported by machine-speed automated actions.
Day two of a transformation project is almost always challenging. Join Operation: Next summit alum, Ruud Gal, for an insightful perspective from his peers on resolving tensions between stakeholders and the art of building relationships.
Ruud Gal
Global Project Director Cyber Security in Operations – DSM
Successful project execution starts and ends with buy-in. Get advice from this expert panel on how to converse with and align leadership (reasonable skeptics) and security (zealous advocates) to achieve a common goal.
Andy Bochman
Senior Cyber & Energy Security Strategist – Idaho National Laboratory
Learn how a diversified energy company built a cyber governance structure that works. We’ll cover cyber risk mitigation through daily operations, measuring progress towards cyber resilience, and strategies for engaging the ELT in the process.
Jesus Sanchez
Head of Global Cybersecurity – Naturgy
Filipe Beato
Lead – Centre for Cybersecurity, World Economic Forum
Brent Hambly
Security Innovation Principal Director – Accenture
Explore new ideas about the key inputs needed to design a zero-trust environment. We’ll discuss why this evolving view evokes varied reactions among stakeholders and how to manage the conversation.
Rob Boyce
Managing Director, Global Cyber Response and Transformation Services Lead – Accenture
Join our discussion on the greatest threats to OT networks, thoughts on network segmentation and anomaly detection as mitigators, and breakthroughs in network visibility and threat intelligence standardization and sharing.
Hear first-hand how our OT security pros are challenging traditional ways of using IEC 62443 to prove IT/OT cybersecurity and resilience of IoT is not a paradox. Plus, an exploration of the role of Business Continuity Management in OT.
Accenture OT security pros team up for a frank—and spirited—discussion on common resilience myths we tell ourselves and why they’re holding us back. Regulations, tools, insurance and architecture are all on the table.
Michelle DeLiberty
Managing Director – NA Chemicals Security Lead, Accenture
Tina Slankas
Managing Director – Accenture
Rouzebeh Hashemi
Senior Manager –Security Consulting, Accenture
Bryan Singer
Principal Director – Security Innovation – Accenture
In an environment where introducing new tools can bring new risks, moving to the cloud can be a double-edged sword. Hear how leading organizations are tackling cloud migration challenges to get security results that hold up.
What role could/should automation play in the future state of critical infrastructure security management. Join our speakers as they use their OT Security and Defense expertise respectively to debate the consequences of automation—good and bad.
Gabby D’Adamo
Senior Manager, Accenture
Jim Guinn
Senior Managing Director – Security, Strategy & Consulting Lead, Accenture
Paul Scharre
Vice President and Director of Studies, Center for a New American Security
Government and industry leaders discuss the U.S.’ 100-day cybersecurity sprints, what’s next for hardening the most vulnerable critical infrastructure, and strategy for developing cyber standards in a heightened geopolitical threat environment.
We’ve compiled key takeaways from each of the tracks from this year’s OT cybersecurity summit. The out briefs contain bold statements from OT cybersecurity practitioners based on real-world experience advancing programs and tackling the same challenges facing your organization.
Track 1: Executive Perspective Designed for executives, talking points from this track address key components of a successful OT security program.
Track 2: End-to-end OT SecOps Building and growing an OT SecOps program takes vision, buy-in and budget. Key takeaways from the program explore how to take your program to the next level.
Track 3: Architecture & resilience Resiliency is the new imperative for OT environments. Discussion points from this track provide valuable insights for building a security architecture to meet the business challenge.
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