ICS Village·13 min
John Ellis · Julia Atkinson
John Ellis and Julia Atkinson present data-driven strategies for recruiting, training, and retaining industrial control systems cybersecurity talent.
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ICS Village DC29
Paris and Bally's Hotels, Las Vegas · 5-8 August 2021 · 24 talks
ICS Village brings together operators, researchers, and government leaders to address critical infrastructure defense, secure PLC coding, OT cloud exploitation, smart meter security, and ransomware resilience.
1–23 of 23 talks / 24
ICS Village·26 min
Tim Yardley
Tim Yardley extracts 15 operational cybersecurity lessons from historical ICS failures and incident response engagements to transform industrial defense.
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ICS Village·27 min
Nico Leidecker · Moritz Thomas
Nico Leidecker and Moritz Thomas share how they engineered a portable, physical ICS cyber firing range with real PLCs, HMIs, and bridge models in their kitchen.
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ICS Village·29 min
Lauren Zabierek
Lauren Zabierek proposes a redesigned national cyber defense posture leveraging integrated public-private threat intelligence sharing networks.
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ICS Village·50 min
Dan Gunter
Dan Gunter challenges assumptions about ICS security data sources, showing how to cross-correlate process data, network packets, and host logs for true visibility.
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ICS Village·22 min
Joe Slowik
Joe Slowik explores systemic multi-tier dependencies in the electrical power grid, demonstrating how targeting auxiliary systems can trigger grid collapse.
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ICS Village·27 min
Stefan Stephenson-Moe
Stefan Stephenson-Moe presents physics-based state estimation techniques to detect Stuxnet-like sensor spoofing and false data injection in industrial controllers.
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ICS Village·25 min
Meet Can Kilic
Meet Can Kilic evaluates emerging cyber-physical threats to human augmentations, brain-computer interfaces, and connected insulin pumps.
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ICS Village·30 min
Sharon Brizinov · Uri Katz
Claroty researchers disclose critical vulnerabilities in CODESYS Automation Server and WAGO PLCs, executing top-down attacks from OT cloud to physical plants.
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ICS Village·25 min
Dieter Sarrazyn
Dieter Sarrazyn outlines practical methodologies for embedding cybersecurity requirements, system hardening, and acceptance testing into industrial upgrade projects.
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ICS Village·22 min
Otis Alexander
Otis Alexander analyzes the MITRE ATT&CK Evaluations for ICS, demonstrating why detection context and operational telemetry are vital for industrial defense.
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ICS Village·32 min
Paul de Souza · Helio Sant'ana · Max Campos · Tom VanNorman · John Felker
International defense experts discuss cross-border cyber threat intelligence sharing between the United States and Brazilian military Cyber Command.
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ICS Village·29 min
Javier Perez · Juan Escobar
Javier Perez and Juan Escobar deconstruct the ICS Cyber Kill Chain, mapping adversary stages from initial IT ingress to OT process manipulation.
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ICS Village·44 min
Mary Brooks
Mary Brooks hosts an interactive round of ICS Jeopardy testing contestants on historical ICS incidents, nerdy fiction, and on-the-spot asset identification.
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ICS Village·29 min
P.W. Singer
Best-selling author and strategist P.W. Singer delivers the opening keynote for the DEF CON 29 ICS Village on useful fiction and forecasting cyber conflicts.
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ICS Village·29 min
Thomas Pace
Tom Pace explores leveraging Software Bills of Materials (SBOMs) to track third-party dependencies and supply chain risks in embedded ICS devices.
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ICS Village·25 min
Aaron Boyd
Aaron Boyd demonstrates Living off the Land (LotL) techniques in OT environments, utilizing native engineering tools and HMI scripts to pivot undetected.
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ICS Village·1 hr 37 min
Seth Grove
Seth Grove demonstrates Malcolm, an open-source network traffic analysis suite developed by INL and CISA for deep packet inspection of industrial protocols.
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ICS Village·55 min
Jamil Jaffer · Ernie Bio · David Etue · Jennifer DeTrani
Cybersecurity leaders analyze the Colonial Pipeline and JBS ransomware attacks, debating mandatory reporting and defensive resilience for critical infrastructure.
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ICS Village·25 min
Don C. Weber
Cutaway Security founder Don C. Weber reviews open-source tools and custom scripts to safely assess and gather telemetry from live industrial control networks.
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ICS Village·22 min
Hash Saehi
Hash Saehi dissects the hardware and RF protocols of electrical smart meters, demonstrating why auditing grid edge devices is vital for infrastructure resilience.
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ICS Village·24 min
Dennis Skarr · Christopher Von Reybyton · Alexander Vigovskiy
Everett Community College students and faculty share experiences conducting mock security assessments on a custom 10-foot physical ICS training wall.
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ICS Village·46 min
Sara Fluchs · Vivek Ponnada
Sara Fluchs and Vivek Ponnada introduce the community-driven Top 20 Secure PLC Coding Practices, bringing secure engineering directly into ladder logic.
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