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Energy Cybersecurity: Protecting Critical Communication Assets
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
2:00 p.m. ET / 11:00 a.m PT

Energy Cybersecurity: Protecting Critical Communication Assets presents a three-pronged approach to utility cybersecurity, a topic that has received heightened attention for well over a decade. Avtec will focus on system and application security. Cisco will discuss network considerations and vulnerabilities, including securing various network infrastructures. Contego will review self-assessments, NIST and NERC-CIP compliance, vulnerability, penetration, and white-box/black-box testing.

Using "cybersecurity ecosystem" as an apt model and metaphor--one where each party is ultimately accountable for a piece of the interconnected solution--the presenters will also review the critical role and responsibility a utility has in protecting its electronic security perimeter and assets. This must-attend webinar will examine best practices for utilities to ensure they are implementing appropriate internal controls and processes, exercising due diligence, and staying up-to-date on the latest security threats and weaknesses, including how to best achieve these goals when working in tandem with operating system and hardware vendors.

Speakers

John Urban
Senior Information Assurance Associate
Quantech Services Inc.

John Urban is a senior information assurance associate for Quantech Services Inc. He has 15 years of IA experience, focusing on security compliance, auditing, policy, penetration testing, and COMSEC. He has supported customers such as the National Reconnaissance Office, Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Air Force, and various commercial companies.

John is responsible for assisting customers with conforming to compliance standards such as Risk

Management Framework, NIST 800-53, FEDRAMP, and NERC-CIP. He is also responsible for maintaining the Quantech ISO 17025 IA and Cybersecurity Laboratory in Colorado Springs. He has a bachelor’s in Science in Information Technology from George Mason University.

Dan O'Malley
Senior Product Manager
Cisco Collaboration Technologies Group

Dan O'Malley is a senior sales and marketing executive with more than 20 years’ experience in both the private radio network communications and connected safety and security industries. He is responsible for Cisco’s Instant Connect and IP Interoperability and Collaboration System product lines for Cisco’s Software Solution Group. He has extensive experience in video and wireless and radio communications technologies. Prior to joining Cisco, Dan worked for Pelco as a product manager for video analytics, wireless video transmission, access control, PoE power supplies, UTP, and fiber optics.

Prior to joining Pelco, he was a field engineer and product line manager for Motorola Solutions, handling various RF technologies including: RFID, satellite communications, enhanced 911, land mobile radio, iridium, Centracom, Embassy Switch, and various radio network designs. He frequently presents to customers and partners to help them understand how sensors and integrated communications technologies can help with incident response and field communications. Dan has an bachelor’s in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois and a master’s in business administration from Lake Forest Graduate School of Management.

Edwin Bio Waleh
Security Communication Product Manager
Avtec Product Management

Edwin Waleh is a security product manager for Avtec. He has 12 years of information technology experience, focusing on auditing, analyzing, and implementing cybersecurity solutions to safeguard critical assets and mitigate security vulnerabilities. Prior to Avtec, he worked for Duke Energy and South Carolina Electric & Gas in various IT functions. He has expertise mapping NERC-CIP and NIST standards.

He has a strong background in policy and procedure implementations, business and IT process improvements, and physical and logical security controls. Edwin is responsible for determining and interpreting applicable security guidelines and controls for Avtec products and services. He manages third-party vendors and customer relationships related to security compliance, testing, and auditing. He has an undergraduate degree in management information systems from The University of North Carolina at Charlotte and is a Certified Information Systems Auditor.

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