{"id":529,"date":"2020-10-14T16:41:49","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T20:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/isamontreal.com\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=529"},"modified":"2020-10-14T16:41:49","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T20:41:49","slug":"covid-19-an-opportunity-for-improved-cybersecurity-by-engineers","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/isamontreal.com\/en\/event\/covid-19-an-opportunity-for-improved-cybersecurity-by-engineers\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: an opportunity for improved cybersecurity by engineers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISA Montreal is organizing a virtual technical presentation on a Covid-19: an opportunity for improved cybersecurity by engineers. The conference will be presented in English and will take place on Wednesday 11 November 2020 at 6:00 p.m. At the end of the presentation, you will receive a one-hour training certificate.<\/p>\n<p>During this presentation, you will learn:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why cybersecurity is important and how is it related to engineering?<\/li>\n<li>Basics of cyber security for engineers, operators, and contractors within the OT\/IACS space<\/li>\n<li>Your responsibilities as a user, and engineer regardless if you are in critical infrastructure, or industry<\/li>\n<li>What you can do about it \u2013 as an individual computer user (even if cybersecurity or IT is not \u201cyour job\u201d), or even through practice ( e.g., secure PLC programming)<\/li>\n<li>Ten OT cyber security myths, and current trends to face head on<\/li>\n<li>Current strategies to assess OT cyber risk and implement security<\/li>\n<li>Transitional approaches and compensating controls where changes to the process equipment is not possible<\/li>\n<li>How to identify potential issues proactively and report issues diligently even for the cyber unaware<\/li>\n<li>How being an ISA member can help, and what training\/certification it provides on the topic of cybersecurity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ron Brash is a Director of Cyber Security Insights at Verve Industrial Protection, a critical infrastructure-focused organisation that specialises in cyber security products, asset inventorying, vulnerability management, and process integrations\/upgrades. Previously, Ron was a manager and SME at a Canadian Cyber Risk Advisory practice based out of Montreal, Quebec. He provided technical knowledge in the aviation security domain, selected ICS\/SCADA topics, and advised on a number of technical areas ranging from reverse engineering firmware, risk assessments, security architecture reviews, vendor-integrations, and controls review. Additionally, Ron has an extensive history with oil &amp; gas, was CTO of a technology consultancy providing secure development and security services for industrial devices, co-author at Packt publishing, vulnerability researcher, and was an embedded developer at Tofino Security (A division of Belden) where he worked on several products that are widely deployed today.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.ca\/e\/covid19-an-opportunity-for-improved-cybersecurity-by-engineers-tickets-125224356421\"><strong>FOR REGISTRATION : Please click here !<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Thank you!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISA Montreal is organizing a virtual technical presentation on a Covid-19: an opportunity for improved cybersecurity by engineers. 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