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PLCs, Protocols & Points: The ICS Cybersecurity Jeopardy Showdown

Tuesday, October 6, 2026
4:20 PM - 5:00 PM
Strategy Track (Great Room 3)

About This Session

Think you know industrial cybersecurity? It is time to prove it. In this fast-paced, audience-driven competition, the room will be divided into three teams and tested across the world of ICS and OT cybersecurity. Teams will choose categories and point values from the board and tackle questions covering industrial control systems, protocols, real-world attacks, major ICS incidents, defensive strategies, and scenarios where the answer may not be as obvious as it first appears. Expect PLCs, HMIs, Modbus, engineering workstations, attack paths, historical incidents, incident response, questionable network architecture, and more than a few situations that should probably never have been connected to the Internet.
This is not just trivia. Many of the challenges require teams to think like defenders, engineers, responders, and attackers as they work through realistic industrial cybersecurity scenarios.
After 40 minutes, the team with the most points earns conference bragging rights and the distinction of knowing just enough about ICS cybersecurity to realize how much can still go wrong.
Three teams. One board. Forty minutes. Highest score wins.

Speaker

Brian "SchleiF" Schleifer

Brian "SchleiF" Schleifer

Director of Content, Events - SecurityWeek

Brian "SchleiF" Schleifer is Director of Content for SecurityWeek Events. He is a retired United States Air Force veteran, cybersecurity professional, podcast host and content leader. He previously served in senior cybersecurity engineering and leadership roles at Modern Technology Solutions, Inc. His experience includes cyber-physical and weapon systems security, security control assessment, cyber testing, risk management, and AI governance. He is pursuing a Doctor of Technology at Purdue University, where his research focuses on adaptive cybersecurity policy for AI-enabled systems. He is also the creator of the Adaptive Artificial Intelligence Risk and Assurance Framework, or AAIRAF. With more than 10,000 hours of public speaking, instruction, and panel moderation experience, Brian is known for making complex cybersecurity, technology, and risk topics practical and accessible.