Dustin Childs of the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) joins Claroty's Aperture podcast to discuss the upcoming Pwn2Own Miami hacking contest. This is the only hacking contest focused on finding zero-day vulnerabilities in industrial control systems (ICS) and operational technology (OT), and it will be held during the S4 conference in January. 

Childs is a veteran of the security industry and Pwn2Own, which is 16 years old. Pwn2Own Miami will be the second such event with an ICS focus. Researchers will compete for a prize pool over more than $300,000; four technology categories are in scope at this year's event: control servers, OPC servers, data gateways, and HMIs. 

Childs explains Pwn2Own Miami's hybrid approach that will allow competitors to enter either virtually or on-site, how Pwn2Own works, and what the disclosure process is like with affected vendors once a zero-day is demonstrated.