Cyber Security in Transportation: Agenda Update

UPDATE: Please use the following link for the current agenda. The one in the post is outdated: http://sintixerr.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/cyber-program_1020.pdf

Progress! As you can see below, we’ve confirmed several additional speakers such as Tony Stramella from the NSA and Steve Carmel from Maersk (who was a fantastic speaker last year – he talked about his experiences with maritime piracy and pirates! Did I mention he talked about pirates??).

The Offensive perspective panel (Kevin Finisterre, Ruben Santamarta/Reversemode, and hopefully Josh Wright) is going to rock out with some talented vulnerability researchers and Mark Fabro will do his always brilliant job of improving the discourse. 

We’ll be excited to hear Bryan Sartin discuss the past year’s data breaches and front-line experts in the field let us know how the stuff you’ve heard in the news might apply to you (Scot Terban, Liam from Symantec, and the now-short-haired Adam Meyers). 

Boeing and Darryl Song from Volpe are going to dish on transportation-specific concerns, and the CTO of the CIA will drive home the need for security to be data-centric. 

Mike Murray will be both entertaining and captivating – even if I dont know his talk yet – and Russell Thomas will bring a much needed formal perspective to risk management and cyber security. 

Patrick Gray gives a lightning fast, but insightful presentation on social media, Jack Johnson will help us understand financial issues facing organizations today, and Amit Yoran will talk about…whatever. He’s just a smart guy.

Hope you can make it. If you’re interested in attending, the registration link is here: Invitation.

(Please, if you’re a vendor and plan on selling, we’ll take a pretty dim view of that at this particular conference. )

November 1
Talk	Speaker 1	Speaker 2	Speaker 3	Moderator
Introductory Remarks	Dr. Emma Garrison-Alexander, TSA CIO
Keynote	Anthony Stramella, NSA
Verizon Data Breach Incident Report	Bryan Sartin/ Verizon Business
Break
Industry Case Study 1: Boeing	Mike Garrett/ Boeing
Panel: Offensive Perspectives	Kevin Finisterre	Ruben Santamarta	Josh Wright (Tentative)	Mark Fabro
Lunch
Social Media	Patrick Gray/Cisco
Panel: Maritime	Steve Carmel, Mearsk	RDML Robert Day, USCG	RADM James Watson, USCG	TBD (Speaker)
Break 1B
Panel: Threats in the News	Scot Terban (Anonymous)	Liam O Murchu / Symantec (Stuxnet)	Adam Meyers (APT)	TBD/ Industry
Industry Case Study 2: Transportation Control Systems	Darryl Song/ Volpe
November 2
Talk	Speaker 1	Speaker 2	Speaker 3	Moderator
Introductory Remarks	TBD
Keynote	Vice Admiral Parker/ USCG
DHS CARMA	TBD
Break
Panel: Executive Perspectives	Amit Yoran/ Netwitness	Gus Hunt/CTO of CIA	TBD/ Industry	TBD/ Industry
TSA & DHS Joint Sector Collaboration	TSA Cyber security Awareness & Outreach Branch
Lunch
Users & Awareness	Mike Murray/MAD Security
Industry Case Study 3: TBD	TBD
Break
Panel: Risk Management	Jack Johnson/ PWC	Russell Thomas	TBD/ Industry	Jack Whitsitt
Industry Case Study 4: TBD	TBD

Cyber Security in Transportation Summit

UPDATE: Please see this link for the most current agenda. The one in the post is outdated: http://sintixerr.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/cyber-program_1020.pdf

So, one of the things I get to do as part of my job which has been pretty exciting is to put together the agenda for our 2nd annual Cyber Security in Transportation summit. It’s happening November 1 & 2 this year in the DC area and is going to be full of outstanding talks for all ages and backgrounds. ;) The summit is aimed at executives and decision makers from within the transportation industry who might be effected by cyber security or whos actions may affect the security of their organizations. We’re covering general cyber security themes as well as transportation specific ones. If you’re in the transportation sector – pipeline, aviation, freight rail, mass transit, highway & motor carrier – and want to attend, let me know at sintixerr@gmail.com.

The tentative agenda currently looks like this:

Summit Schedule (Click for Larger)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AGENDA DESCRIPTIONS

Industry Case Studies

Four discussions of transportation-specific cyber security concerns and perspectives: Incidents, Best Practices that worked, Lessons Learned, Soap Box Scenarios , etc.

Public/Private Partnership

Sector Collaboration

Based on outcomes of this summer’s Transportation Cyber Security Exercise

 

Panel: Maritime

Representatives of the Maritime mode will discuss  topics of common interest

 

TBD DHS

 

General Cyber Security Awareness Talks & Panels

Panel: Offensive Perspectives

Non-technical perspectives from well-known offensive researchers

Panel: Threats in the News

Current threats in the news such as APT, Stuxnet, and Anonymous

 

Panel: Executive Perspectives

Concerns and solutions in today’s environments

 

Panel: Risk Management

Cybersecurity impacts on business risk management

 

Verizon Data Breach Incident Report

An empirical overview of current trends

Social Networking

Ups, downs, concerns and impacts of social networking on cyber security

Users and Awareness

Exploration of the most critical aspect of cyber security: Users

 Verizon Data Breach Incident Report: Bryan Sartin/Verizon Business   
Industry Case Study 1: Boeing Mike Garrett/Boeing   
Panel: Offensive Perspectives: Kevin Finisterre Ruben Santamarta  Mark Fabro
Social Media: Patrick Gray/CISCO   
Panel: Maritime Stakeholders  (USCG & Industry)   
Panel: Threats in the News: Scot Terban (Anonymous) Liam O Murchu / Symantec (Stuxnet)  (APT) 
Industry Case Study 2: Transportation Control Systems Darryl Song/Volpe   
Keynote:  Vice Admiral Parker/ USCG   
DHS     
Panel: Executive Perspectives: Amit Yoran/Netwitness Gus Hunt/CTO of CIA  
Sector Collaboration   
Users & Awareness Mike Murray/MAD Security      
Panel: Risk Management Jack Johnson/PWC Russell Thomas  Jack Whitsitt  

Brainwave Art Talk for Digital Capital Week

Via HacDC and as part of Digital Capital Week, I’ll be giving a lightning talk this Saturday the 19th on using your brainwaves to make art while you sleep. I’ll include either a video of the “first draft” of the art, or a live demo.  This is a follow-up talk to one I gave this past February.

The talks start at 4:45 and go for an hour (or a little over) and you can find us at:

Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church
900 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington DC

If you want to hear more about consumer-grade fun with using your brainwaves to manipulate the world around you, come check it out!

The current speaker lineup is:

• Look Ma, No Wires (Michael Panfield)
• Sysadmins: Have smartphone, will travel (Betsy Nichols and Andrei Tchijov)
• AI: Three most common reactions (Bradford Barr)
•  ??? (Alan McCosh)
• Writ Large: scaling a Cartesian robot (Dan Barlow)
• Urban Data Access: How communication builds communities (Will Holcomb)
• Fast Creativity: Using the DNA of Improvisational Comedy to Foster Ideas Fast (Shawn Westfall)
• While you sleep: Making Art with your mind (and a little code) (Jack Whitsitt)

Off Topic: Juried into DCist Exposed 2010, Come out to see March 6

Not really appropriate for this blog, but I’m pretty lazy about updating my art-only one: Paivi and I were juried into (along with many other talented local photographers) the DCist Exposed show this year and the opening is Saturday, March 6. Come see it, if you’re in town and free.  My selected photo was:

Official press release follows:

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Washington, DC — DCist.com is pleased to announce its fourth annual DCist Exposed Photography Show, at Long View Gallery, running March 6 to 21, 2010. Out of over 1,000 individual entries submitted through Flickr.com, 47 winning images were selected by a panel of judges to be included in this year’s DCist Exposed exhibit. DCist.com prides itself on engaging and promoting emerging local photographers through its daily use of images from the popular, reader-generated DCist Flickr photo pool.  Each day, DCist.com selects photos from the pool for use in its daily coverage of local news, arts and entertainment, food and sports.

This year’s opening reception will be bigger and better than ever, to be held Saturday, March 6, 2010 from 6 to 10 p.m. At the bar, mixologist Scott Palmer from Dino will have a special punch, Leopold Brothers will host a liquor tasting, and Pabst Blue Ribbon will hold down the fort with plenty of beer.  Nage will provide hor’dourves, while DJs v:shal kanwar and Sequoia spin tunes.  Reception is $5 per guest at the door.

Long View Gallery is located at 1234 9th St. NW, just a few blocks from the Mt. Vernon/Convention Center Metro. The 2009 DCist Exposed event welcomed over 1,000 people on opening night, and with this even larger venue, we expect our biggest crowd ever. All photographs selected and displayed at DCist Exposed will be for sale at prices well below traditional gallery shows.  Regular gallery hours are Wednesday-Saturday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Sunday, 12 to 5 p.m.

The 2010 DCist Exposed Photography Show is sponsored by Ten Miles Square, Pink Line Project, and Pabst Blue Ribbon.

Doing a Lightning Talk at HacDC Feb 23,2010 on BrainQuartz

All, I’ll be giving a quick (5 minute) introduction to using Neurosky’s Mindset API to do cool stuff with your brainwaves – like making art while you sleep :) – on 02/23/10 @7:30pm as part of HacDC’s Lightning Talks (featuring 12 speakers for 5 minutes each).  For the introduction, I’ll be using the simple Objective-C server and custom written Quartz Composer plug-in client to display a visualization that response to both your brainwaves and ambient noise/music together. Come out and see!

Check out the example proof-of-code video I did below (a longer post to come tomorrow):

Spinning Video Treats at HackDC After Shmoocon Friday

EDIT: THIS HAS BEEN CANCELED DUE TO SNOW. Not sure what to do after shmoocon Friday night? Not going to the con but need something to do? Come over to the HacDC Hacker’s Lounge event for a little while (runs 8pm-2am). I’ve been putting some fun NEW interactive Quartz video projections together for the event (link goes to early older work – need to show up to see newer stuff) and Daniel Packer will be doing some audio with supercollider. Oh yeah, and I hear there will be booze.

I can’t tell you if there will be 10 people or 100 there, but if you take a chance and show up, that’s 1 closer to 100 :)