ICS Village·35 min
Austin Scott
Outlines five practical and high-impact security wins for strengthening industrial control system defenses.
DEF CON Safe Mode/ICS Village across years
Virtual (Discord and Twitch) · 6-9 August 2020 · 16 talks
ICS Village brings together operators, researchers, and government leaders to address critical infrastructure defense, industrial control systems security, turbine controls, OT forensics, and active defense.
1–16 of 16 talks
ICS Village·35 min
Austin Scott
Outlines five practical and high-impact security wins for strengthening industrial control system defenses.
ICS Village·57 min
Tim Yardley
Details the design and implementation of a physical electric grid testbed for researching blackstart restoration procedures.
ICS Village·58 min
Marina Krotofil
Reflects on years of offensive ICS research, physical process manipulation attacks, and defensive lessons learned.
ICS Village·31 min
Presents an active defense concept tailored for ICS security operations to enable rapid and effective incident response.
ICS Village·25 min
Fernandez · Gomez
Provides an overview of the industrial cybersecurity landscape, threats, and regulatory status in Mexico.
ICS Village·49 min
Nadav Erez
Explores parsing proprietary ICS engineering project files to gain deep forensic visibility into industrial controllers.
ICS Village·32 min
Chris Krebs
CISA Director Chris Krebs delivers the opening keynote on defending critical infrastructure and industrial control systems.
ICS Village·15 min
Chris Krebs
Chris Krebs answers questions regarding national cyber defense, government coordination, and ICS security.
ICS Village·31 min
Joe Slowik
Analyzes how sophisticated adversaries design malware to target industrial physical processes and induce mission kills.
ICS Village·23 min
Marie Otis
Introduces the MITRE ATT&CK for Industrial Control Systems knowledge base and its application to threat modeling.
ICS Village·50 min
Korotin · Motspan
Examines systemic architectural flaws and insecure-by-design vulnerabilities in turbine control systems.
ICS Village·27 min
Chris Kubecka
Discusses operationalizing international cyber norms and rules of engagement to protect civilian critical infrastructure.
ICS Village·59 min
Demirel Temel
Explores security research and vulnerabilities in electrical power distribution systems and substations.
ICS Village·46 min
Ben Gardiner
Introduces two open tools for auditing and testing power-line communications and PLCs in heavy-duty vehicles.
ICS Village·1 hr 4 min
ac0rn · atlas 0f d00m
Demonstrates binary analysis and reverse engineering techniques targeting PowerPC firmware commonly found in industrial gear.
ICS Village·24 min
Yardeni · Lemley
Shares practical survival tips and methodologies for researching and disclosing vulnerabilities in industrial systems.