Derek Harp would like to invite you, the listener, to next week’s (CS)²AI Online Symposium on Secure Control Systems for Smart Manufacturing. Manufacturing is a critical sector that forms a large portion of the American economy. It has over twelve-million workers and currently has 2.3 trillion dollars of output in the US alone! 

The symposium will be in two parts: Part 1 will take place on Wednesday, May the 25th, 2022, at 1 pm EST. Some great prizes will be given to the participants in the question process, including some valuable industry books! Part 2 will happen in August 2022. More topics on manufacturing will be covered in the second part by some additional speakers.

As a society, we take much of what gets produced within the manufacturing sector for granted, yet cyber threat actors take advantage of every vertical within that sector. Today, Colin Dunn, one of the (CS)²AI sponsors and the CEO of Fend Incorporated, and Isiah Jones, a (CS)²AI Founding Fellow and a well-known cyber security researcher and practitioner, join Derek to share their thoughts on the importance of cyber security for manufacturing. Stay tuned for more!

Show highlights:

• Isiah saw the kind of problems that happen under normal circumstances with manufacturing baby food years ago when he was with Jacobs Engineering. 
• Messing with manufacturing and the supply chain is sure to disrupt any society. 
• Supply chains have many vulnerable parts and do not need any additional stress like cyber-attacks right now.
• There are ways to keep cyber attackers out. The symposium is a way to explore some of those options. 
• All sectors, especially manufacturing, need to start spending more money on employing trained safety staff.
• One of the assets the manufacturing sector has is the safety culture.
• Thinking about cyber security as key to safety will help it get taken more seriously within the manufacturing sector.
• More attention needs to be paid to problems like ransom threats, the manipulation of logic, and intellectual property theft within the manufacturing sector.
• Much more action needs to be taken around security issues in the manufacturing sector. 

Links:

(CS)²AI

(CS)²AI Online Symposium Secure Control Systems for Smart Manufacturing

Colin Dunn on LinkedIn

Fend Incorporated

Isiah Jones on LinkedIn