Cyber Security — The fundamentals of process plant security
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Tuesday, June 24 — 2 sessions: 8 a.m. EDT [12:00 GMT] 2 p.m. EDT [18:00 GMT] |
Cyber security is becoming a critically important subject for control and system experts who may not also be cyber security experts. In this next content-packed webinar, ARC Advisory Group analyst Harry Forbes will lead a panel of experts addressing cyber questions most frequently raised by end-users in the heavy process industries. Questions run the gamut from the nature of the threats to how the industry in general is dealing them. You will walk away with an excellent update on the state of the art of cyber security protection and a better idea of what you can do to protect your plant.
Threat mitigation and improved security
Harry Forbes, Senior Automation Analyst at ARC, will start us off with a quick summary of some of the trends that ARC has been following and an overview of cyber security questions that ARC gets most frequently.
He will then engage Schneider Electric cyber security experts, Glen Bounds and Jay Abdallah, in a discussion to address these questions. Drawing upon recent experiences with real-world incidents, they’ll explain the nature and origin of the threats, the damage that resulted, the preventive policies and procedures that were in place, and their mitigation effectiveness.
There will also be time allocated at the end of the session for your comments and questions.
Who should attend?
This webinar is for operations teams: plant managers, operations managers, control and safety engineers, and IT professionals.
Protect your plant — don't miss this important webinar!
Harry Forbes
Lead Analyst Distributed Control Systems, ARC
Harry has 30 years of experience in automation, power generation, energy management, modeling and simulation, advanced control, and optimization. In addition to his work at ARC, he has written for Control Design, Power magazine, and Hydrocarbon Processing magazine, and presented papers at many technical and industry conferences. Prior to joining ARC, Harry served in a variety of marketing, sales and engineering posts for SimSci and Foxboro. He also worked as a performance and automation engineer in fossil and nuclear power generation at the Detroit Edison Company. Harry is a graduate of Tufts University with a BS in electrical engineering and has an MBA from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.
Glen Bounds
Cyber Security Services Director
Glen Bounds has thirty-two years of instrumentation, control and safety systems experience in diverse industrial regions. For the past eight years, Glen created and managed an Invensys cyber-security team for the EMEA region. The team’s work included security system development and management for several oil and gas mega-projects. He has extensive knowledge and experience in both physical security and cyber security from a customer as well as a vendor’s perspective. Glen is originally from Louisiana, USA and lives in Dubai with his wife. He enjoys very spicy food.
Jay Abdallah
Cyber Security Services Manager
Jay Abdallah is an American Cyber Security Professional with 15 years of enterprise-class experience. He joined Invensys in 2010, after a three-year tenure as one of Symantec’s lead Security Consultants. Jay has designed and implemented some of corporate America’s largest and most sophisticated endpoint security and network access control systems. Jay holds many industry certifications including CISSP, CISM, ISO27001 Lead Auditor, Enterasys Security, Juniper Security, Symantec Security, and Microsoft Engineering. Jay has planned and executed projects containing some of the most advanced network security systems in the energy sector and currently manages a team of cyber security professionals operating in 7 countries throughout EMEA.