THE BACKGROUND
Cyber security is a huge issue in the smart grid and intelligent utility — and one that will not go away. The relationship between a smart grid and secure grid is as crucial to well being of individual communities as it is to the nation's security. The November/December issue of Intelligent Utility magazine focuses on the continuing battle between cyber security offense (like grid attackers and hackers) and defense (such as utility companies and security groups). View article. In conjunction, our January 7 webcast provides you with a personal look at how hackers can attack and utility security professionals can defend the grid. |
THE DISCUSSION
Join Intelligent Utility vice president and editor-in-chief H. Christine Richards, along with a group of security experts who will open up about their work to ensure the security of a smarter grid and a more intelligent utility. Reserve your seat for this free webcast that pries into the rapidly changing world of cyber security in the utility industry.
By attending, you will:
| • | Gain insight into the latest cyber security tactics on both the offense and defense sides of the battle.
| | • | Identify the keys items to consider when looking at cyber security efforts for your company.
| | • | Learn how other industries are securing their critical infrastructure and how those efforts can apply to the utility industry.
| THE PANELISTS  Kevin Brown
Utility Communications Security Architect
EnerNex | |  Mike Davis
Senior Security Consultant
IOActive | |  Erfan Ibrahim
Technical Executive
IntelliGrid Power Delivery and Utilization
Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) | |
Since coming to EnerNex, Kevin has focused his attention on the Advanced Security Acceleration Project for the Smart Grid (ASAP-SG) part of the Open Smart Grid Subcommittee of the UCA International Users Group in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and other interested parties, of which he is a member.
Prior to EnerNex, Brown was the product and business manager at SAIC with P&L responsible for all web-based collaborative and engineering applications for the ANX eBusiness network. In addition, while he was at SAIC he was also a senior consultant and worked on many projects helping companies develop strategies for e-commerce and supply chain management.
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Mike Davis is a Senior Security Consultant at IOActive, experienced in enterprise-level application assessment and consultation. At IOActive he performs penetration testing, identifies system vulnerabilities, and designs custom security solutions for clients in software development, telecommunications, financial services, and professional services. He and fellow IOActive researchers recently discovered significant security vulnerabilities in meters being deployed in the smart grid, and he helped disclose this information to White House officials. Davis is also responsible for driving IOActive's efforts to perform cutting-edge security assessments on retailer point of sale terminals, advanced computing chipsets, and gas station management infrastructure.
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Erfan Ibrahim is a Technical Executive at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). His current research activities focus on the communications infrastructure for the utility smart grid with particular emphasis on home area networks, advanced metering infrastructure, building automation networks, and energy management systems.
Before joining EPRI, Ibrahim founded and managed The Bit Bazaar LLC (TBB), a full service IT and business consulting firm offering services to clients in the high tech, financial services, and energy sectors. At TBB Ibrahim focused on wireless communications, network management, and information security technologies with a particular emphasis on aligning the IT goals of his clients with their business goals for sustained competitive advantage.
Prior to establishing The Bit Bazaar LLC, Ibrahim’s career included the following positions: VP of Sales & Marketing at Jyra Research, Product Manager for Network Management at Pacific Bell Network Integration (now AT&T), Science and Math Lecturer at National University, Nuclear Fusion Research Engineer at UCLA, and Plasma Physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Lab.
Ibrahim received a Bachelor of Science in physics from Syracuse University, a Master of Science in mechanical engineering from the University of Texas, Austin, and a doctorate in nuclear engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.
| |  Tyler Williams
President & CEO
Wurldtech Security Technologies, Inc. | |  H. Christine Richards
Vice President, Intelligent Utility Division and Editor-in-Chief Intelligent Utility Magazine
Energy Central | | | |
Tyler Williams is the Co-Founder, President and CEO of Wurldtech, a cyber security testing and certification company founded in 2007. He is an internationally recognized thought leader in critical infrastructure protection, industrial cyber security, cyber terrorism and is an expert in security for high-availability process automation and control networks.
Williams is a technical member of the ISA SP99 industrial cyber security standard, a technical member of the ISA compliance institute, a cyber security subject matter expert for the WIB Plant Security Working Group and has co-authored numerous cyber security best practices for the industrial automation industry.
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H. Christine Richards is vice president of Energy Central’s Intelligent Utility Division and editor-in-chief of Intelligent Utility magazine. Intelligent Utility brings more the 20,000 utility industry participants a fresh perspective on smart grid initiatives from a real-world perspective. Since the magazine’s launch in January 2009, Christine and her team have chronicled more than 50 utility company journeys toward a smarter grid and more intelligent utility.
Prior to her roles at Energy Central, Christine served as lead analyst for the intelligent grid practice at IDC Energy Insights — a leading market research firm for the energy industry. Her clients included some of the largest investor-owned utilities and public power producers in North America along with the largest IT vendors in the world. In this position, she conducted rigorous research and wrote about critical issues facing smart grid efforts. Christine’s ability to bring a fresh perspective to such areas and encourage her clients to take another look at how they think about and approach these T&D issues earned her prestigious research and quality awards from IDC.
Christine received her master’s degree from Cornell University and graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor of science degree from Colorado State University.
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