Recent reports, including Dell’s annual security study, attest to the fact that worldwide cyber-attacks on ICS and SCADA infrastructures doubled in a year. In March 2016, the U.S. Justice Department indicted seven hackers tied to the Iranian regime, who allegedly staged a coordinated cyber attack that targeted 46 major financial institutions and a hydro dam outside of New York City.
DCD>Enterprise, at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square, March 14-15, will examine this new potential source of security threat and how to best mitigate it.
“The good old days of security through obscurity, when power monitoring systems were of a lower priority than even the cooling control systems when it came to cyber security, are now over,” says DCD>Enterprise panelist Fred Gordy, director of cyber security at Intelligent Buildings, “but there’s still a lot of work to be done.”
“The greater interconnectedness demanded by the IoT may be leading to a new, sophisticated digital infrastructure security risks,” says Bruce Taylor, DCD conference chair. “The convergence of IT and OT (industrial sensing, monitoring and automation controls) may have the unintended consequence of creating a new class of security vulnerability.” Along with a growing concern for state-sponsored cyber-attacks, this may become a recipe for business disruption risk. Where better to start than with IoT-enabled mission critical environments?
“While the benefits from this converging landscape are vast, we’re faced with huge security challenges,” says George Rockett, DCD’s co-founding CEO. “The borderlands between the physical hardware and software-defined monitoring and smart controls gets a thorough airing at DCD>Enterprise this year, where executives from both IT and OT meet and collectively tackle this challenge.”
Registering to attend DCD>Enterprise
Designed specifically for IT decision-makers from organizations that run data center-scale infrastructure, attendance is limited to 1,500 delegates this year. Pre-registration is expected to be heavily over-subscribed, therefore we urge qualified end-user/operators to apply for complimentary passes as soon as they have cleared their calendars.
Click here for early bird complimentary offer ends January 31.