Navigating Complexities in Global Oil and Gas Projects: A Fireside Chat on ICS Security
About This Session
In the dynamic landscape of the oil and gas industry, managing large-scale projects across diverse sectors—midstream, upstream, unconventional, LCS, downstream, and manufacturing—presents unique challenges. This fireside chat will bring together key leaders from our organization to discuss how we navigate conflicting business needs while ensuring robust ICS security.
Speakers

Brad Nash
OTCRM SOC Supervisor - ExxonMobil
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Ron Ahasan
Project Manager - ExxonMobil
22 years with ExxonMobil and working as project manager for last 8 years

Dusty Courtney
Industrial Cybersecurity Engineer - ExxonMobil
Dusty Courtney is an Industrial Cybersecurity Engineer at ExxonMobil with 20+ years of experience in radio systems, military intelligence and downstream industrial control systems. In his current role, he focuses on OT threat intelligence, ICS incident response and cyber investigations. He specializes in ICS cybersecurity, system migrations, and team leadership. Dusty holds multiple GIAC certifications and brings deep expertise in securing industrial environments.

Jason Thompson
OT Cybersecurity Engineering - ExxonMobil
Jason has spent the majority of his 20 year career with ExxonMobil in Infrastructure Operations and he has spent the last year leading the OT Cybersecurity Engineering team.