[Launchpad] Tales from the Road, How to Crawl, Walk, Run in ICS Cybersecurity
About This Session
ICS Cybersecurity is where Engineering meets IT. Different critical infrastructure verticals have various limitations and constraints that prevent a smooth implementation of many comprehensive cybersecurity frameworks. Rather using the SANS ICS Five Critical Controls as a benchmark, recommendations for ICS Cybersecurity need to be tailored to meet the organization where they are. Case studies on incremental shifts that are attainable within a budget cycle to prepare for the next outage window.
Speaker
Mackenize Morris
Principal Industrial Consultant at Dragos - Dragos
Mackenize Morris is a Principal Industrial Consultant at the industrial cybersecurity company Dragos, Inc. where he assists the professional services teams in conducting network and vulnerability assessments. Dragos works to secure critical infrastructure organizations including power, water, and manufacturing.
Prior to joining Dragos, Mackenize worked as a process controls engineer and system architect of DCS systems until fully switching over to an ICS cybersecurity position within the DOE complex.
Mackenize received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering and MBA from the University of South Carolina as well as a Masters in Information Security Engineering from the SANS Technology Institute. He currently holds over a dozen cybersecurity certifications.
Prior to joining Dragos, Mackenize worked as a process controls engineer and system architect of DCS systems until fully switching over to an ICS cybersecurity position within the DOE complex.
Mackenize received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering and MBA from the University of South Carolina as well as a Masters in Information Security Engineering from the SANS Technology Institute. He currently holds over a dozen cybersecurity certifications.