Drone Attacks on Industrial Wireless: A New Front in Cyber Security

Presented at Black Hat USA 2016, Aug. 3, 2016, 1:50 p.m. (50 minutes)

With new Drone technologies appearing in the consumer space daily, Industrial Plant operators are being forced to rethink their most fundamental assumptions about Industrial Wireless and Cyber-Physical security. This presentation will cover Electronic Threats, Electronic Defensive measures, Recent Electronic jamming incidents, Latest Drone Threats and capabilities, defensive planning, and Electronic Attack Threats with Drones as delivery platform.


Presenters:

  • Jeff Melrose - Yokogawa
    Jeff Melrose is the Principal Technology Strategist for Cybersecurity at Yokogawa US with over 20 years of cybersecurity experience. Before Yokogawa, Jeff was a Principal Security Engineer at Lockheed Martin Corporation designing secure systems for the US Military and US Intelligence agencies. In those roles, he led Security Designers creating secure wireless technologies, developing secure networks and cryptographic infrastructures for the most paranoid of customers. Having written extensively in his previous field, Jeff continues to publish cybersecurity articles in Chemical Processing and Control Engineering. Jeff has an MS in Mathematics from the University of Oklahoma and holds the CEH, CISSP, ISSEP and GICSP cybersecurity certifications. He is also a member of AFPM, ISA99, IEC Cyber Security Task Force and ISC(2).

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