Rees Machtemes
Director of Industrial Security
Waterfall Security
Rees is a professional electrical engineer with 20 years of industry experience. He’s designed power generation and transmission substations, automated a food and beverage plant, worked on private and government telecom projects, and supported data centers and OT hardware vendors. This led him to champion cyber-safe systems design and architecture.
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Director of Industrial Security
Waterfall Security
Gregory Hale
Editor & Founder
Industrial Safety And Security Source
Gregory has been the Editor/Founder of Industrial Safety and Security Source (ISSSource.com) for 14 years, reporting on Safety and Security in the manufacturing sector. He is also the founder of ICSSTRIVE, a manufacturing industry cybersecurity incident database. Prior to ISSSource, he was InTech magazine’s Chief Editor for 10 years.
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Editor & Founder
Industrial Safety And Security Source
Brian Pauling
Sr. Operations Compliance Consultant
Archer
Brian has served in a variety of executive, management and consulting capacities for over 25 years utilizing his expertise to create, assess, and implement change across numerous industries and organizations, with a focus in the gas and electric utility industry. Most notably, his experience includes establishing
and managing top tier NERC and corporate compliance departments, providing end to end compliance support (i.e., program development, program management, process design and implementation, RSAW
documentation/review, internal controls program development and implementation, mock audits, audit support, penalty/sanction resolution, etc.) to small and large utilities, and managing regulatory processes and relationships.
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Sr. Operations Compliance Consultant
Archer
Manuel Carlos Maestas
Idaho National Laboratory / Distributed Energy and Grid Modeling Integration
Power Systems Engineer
Control Systems Engineer skilled in the art of installing and programming control systems. I bring hands-on expertise, having successfully navigated concept-to-scale testing and commissioning projects. I'm skilled in grid modeling and simulation with RTDS's RSCAD FX, focusing on using data to implement advanced fault identification methods in the evolving power generation landscape. Some of my work includes configuring and testing hardware in-the-loop, which includes the installation and configuration of SEL devices (3555, 351, 735, 2488), Megger Amplifiers, inverters, and PLC systems. I also have experience with testing automated response methods and conducted vulnerability assessments on customer provided testbeds. I have helped mentor over 30 interns at a national laboratory.
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Idaho National Laboratory / Distributed Energy and Grid Modeling Integration
Power Systems Engineer
Pierre Janse van Rensburg
Senior Consulting Expert, ICS Cybersecurity
BBA Engineering, presentation on behalf of ICS4ICS (ISA GCA)
With a keen will to continually deepen his knowledge, Mr. Janse van Rensburg’s career history highlights expertise and demonstrated skill sets in areas such as system security, support, administration and management, system / process development and implementation, team leadership, project management, consulting, training and mentoring.
He has played key roles in the development of multiple organizations' Compliance and Cybersecurity Programs (NERC CIP, NIST CSF, IEC-62443), as well as ongoing maintenance. He provides consulting service in a wide range of cybersecurity projects including working with large industrial utilities such as BC Hydro, AltaLink, and ENMAX Power. Prior to joining BBA he was responsible for the day-to-day operational security of a large municipal utility T&D SCADA network. His proven ability to quickly grasp and master new technical concepts and technologies and responsibility in managing multi-level projects to fruition effectively make him a great asset to every team.
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Senior Consulting Expert, ICS Cybersecurity
BBA Engineering, presentation on behalf of ICS4ICS (ISA GCA)
Steve Parker
President and Founding Director
EnergySec
Steven Parker, CISA, CISSP, is a founding director of EnergySec. He has been engaged in critical infrastructure protection within the electric sector for more than 22 years, including eight years as a senior security staff member at a large west coast utility. He was also one of the original NERC CIP auditors for the WECC region. He has been with EnergySec full-time since 2010.
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President and Founding Director
EnergySec
Nate Evans
Senior Cyber Researcher
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Dr. Nathaniel Evans is a senior cybersecurity researcher at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He currently works on a variety of proactive cybersecurity projects involving critical infrastructure including the development of DOE’s Energy Threat Analysis Center. Nate created a cybersecurity assessment for critical infrastructure that is used heavily by DHS and has three R&D 100 awards for his research in proactive cybersecurity. Nate graduated with his PHD from Iowa State University and has had a variety of positions within industry and the National Labs.
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Senior Cyber Researcher
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Matt Caves
V.P., Legal & Regulatory Compliance
Western Farmers Electric Cooperative
Matt Caves currently serves as the Corporate Compliance Officer and Vice President of Legal and Regulatory Compliance for Western Farmers Electric Cooperative (WFEC), a generation and transmission cooperative located in Anadarko, Oklahoma. Prior to joining WFEC, Matt spent almost 15 years as a state regulator and in private practice handling a wide variety of regulatory compliance, permitting, enforcement and litigation issues.
Matt is a member of the Markets and Operations Policy Committee (MOPC) and Strategic Planning Committee (SPC) of the Southwest Power Pool (SPP) and serves on the Midwest Reliability Organization (MRO) Compliance Monitoring and Enforcement Advisory Council (CMEPAC). He also serves on the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality Air Quality Advisory Council (AQAC). Matt obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in Wildlife and Fisheries Ecology from Oklahoma State University and his Juris Doctorate degree from The University of Oklahoma, College of Law.
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V.P., Legal & Regulatory Compliance
Western Farmers Electric Cooperative
Jason Cromes
Identity Security Manager
Southern Company
Jason Cromes is the Manager of the Identity Security organization at Southern Company. Over the past 2 years, he has built a high-performing team with considerable knowledge of on-premises and cloud identity including Auth & MFA, PAM, PKI, SOX, CIAM, mainframe identity and identity risk detection.
Jason brings to his role 20 years of IT and OT experience across a broad range of infrastructure, telecom, cloud, application development, and security domains. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Alabama and a Masters of Engineering from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
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Identity Security Manager
Southern Company
Matt Downey
Vice President Energy and Supply Chain Sales
Fortress Information Security
Mr. Downey serves as Vice President Energy and Supply Chain Sales with Fortress Information Security and is responsible for Fortress’ overall Sales effort within North American Energy Utility and adjacent markets. Matt has worked within the Energy industry for the past 26 years, having served in Customer-facing capacities with Datamatic, Inc, Elster-ABB, Space-Time Insight, and Nokia prior assuming his current role at Fortress. During this time, he has accrued vital experience listening to his Clients and tailoring specific solutions to their needs.
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Vice President Energy and Supply Chain Sales
Fortress Information Security
Sharla Artz
Security and Resilience Policy AVP
Xcel Energy
Sharla Artz serves as the Security and Resilience Policy Area Vice President for Xcel Energy where she manages the company’s national security strategic partnerships with our federal and state government partners. In this role, she works with utilities, government partners, and industry stakeholders to develop strategies that enhance the resilience of critical infrastructures. Previously, she served as the Senior Vice President of Government & External Affairs at the Utilities Technology Council, where she focused on bringing attention to cross sector interdependencies in critical infrastructure protection efforts. Ms. Artz was formerly the Director of Government Affairs at Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. (SEL), where she established close working relationships with government officials, contributed insight for sound policy decision making, and was an advocate on the role of technology in grid resilience. Prior to joining SEL, Ms. Artz was the vice president of legal and government affairs for Genscape, Inc., developing business relationships for the company with federal entities. Ms. Artz was the assistant general counsel for the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, serving the 50 state utility commissioners on energy regulatory matters pending before the federal government. After receiving her juris doctor from Georgetown University Law Center, Ms. Artz spent four years on Capitol Hill, working on energy policy for a former member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Ms. Artz has a bachelor’s degree in sociology and psychology from the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma. She lives in Alexandria, Virginia, with her husband and two children.
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Security and Resilience Policy AVP
Xcel Energy
Andrew Ginter
VP Industrial Security
Waterfall Security
At Waterfall Security, Andrew leads a team of experts working with the world's most secure industrial sites. He is the author of three books on industrial security, co-author of the IIoT SF and the UITP Guide to CyberSecurity in Tendering, and co-host of the Industrial Security Podcast.
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VP Industrial Security
Waterfall Security
Mark Cooper
President & Founder - PKI Solution
PKI Solutions
Mark B. Cooper, president and founder of PKI Solutions, has been known as “The PKI Guy” since his early days at Microsoft. Mark has deep knowledge and experience in all things Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), including Microsoft Active Directory Certificate Services (ADCS), PKI design and implementation, Internet of Things (IoT), mobile security, and encryption. PKI Solutions provides consulting, training, professional services, and assessments to help ensure the security of organizations now and in the future. At PKI Solutions, Mark and his team have implemented PKI solutions at enterprises, many of them Fortune 500 companies, in industries including energy, IoT, technology, healthcare, and financial services, as well as federal, state, and local government. Mark has also led hundreds of PKI trainings, including private trainings, across the country, and around the world—from Scotland to Buffalo, from Sweden to Washington, D.C.—and everywhere in between. He is also the primary instructor for our online PKI training courses. Prior to founding PKI Solutions in 2014, Mark was a senior engineer at Microsoft, where he designed, implemented, and supported ADCS environments for Microsoft’s largest customers and became the leading subject matter expert for ADCS and identity management. Mark developed and managed the Microsoft PKI Health Check to analyze and report on the design and management of PKI components and created Microsoft’s first consolidated set of PKI best practices. He authored several Microsoft whitepapers, including the specifications and deployment of ADCS on Microsoft Windows Failover Clusters. Mark has been working with Microsoft technologies since 1992 when he achieved his first MCP certification with Microsoft exam #001. He has subsequently earned the MCSE accreditation for every Microsoft operating system since Windows NT 3.51, and is a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), Microsoft Security MVP, and Charter Microsoft Certified Master—Directory Services (MCM). In fact, for those with Microsoft MCM-Directory accreditation, Mark developed and most likely delivered the PKI portion of the training.
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President & Founder - PKI Solution
PKI Solutions
Monta Elkins
SANS Instructor and Author of the new Hardware Hacking Essentials Training
SANS
EnergySec Cyber Security Professional of the Year 2018
SAN ICS Cyber Security Principal Instructor
Hardware Hacking Essentials Training Course Author
Supply chipping attack feature at wired.com
60+ Security presentations at conferences including, DEFCON, RSA, EnergySec, S4 CS3STLM, Bsides LV, GridSecCon, Hack the Capitol and many others
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SANS Instructor and Author of the new Hardware Hacking Essentials Training
SANS
