Bridging the Gap: Getting the Dam Engineers and the Flippin’ Cybersecurity People Talking

Presented at CircleCityCon 8.0 (2021) Virtual, Unknown date/time (Unknown duration).

Cyberattacks on critical infrastructure, like those on the Oldsmar water facility or the TRISIS/TRITON petrochem plant, are increasing in frequency. Attackers are actively exploiting the cultural divide between the engineers who design these facilities and the cybersecurity people who protect them. I set out to learn more about this by bringing our engineering and cybersecurity students together in a new shared-use Critical Infrastructure Laboratory at Rose-Hulman.

Presenters:

• David Henthorn - Associate Professor at Rose-Hulman Inst. of Technol.
  David Henthorn is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, IN where he teaches courses in control systems, process analytics, and chemical plant design. Details on the Critical Infrastructure Laboratory at Rose-Hulman and Dr. Henthorn’s research in control systems can be found at https://henthornlab.org

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• THOTCON 0xA (2019) / How to Fix the Diversity Gap in Cybersecurity
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