“There are quite a few industrial cybersecurity conferences out there, but what stood out to me about CyberCon is their focus on the CISO and management level professionals as well as workforce development,” said Bodungen. “CyberCon delivers OT cybersecurity topics to CISOs and stakeholders that address their needs and questions from a strategic and business risk perspective, which is huge because these are the issues my customers consistently approach me about. Most other conferences have great technical content about current threats, cybersecurity controls, architecture, and more, but so many OT cybersecurity managers, stakeholders, and executives still have lingering questions about when to implement certain types of technologies like threat monitoring, when to do a vulnerability assessment, when to do a penetration test, what controls they actually need and which ones they can do without. How much is too much? What is not enough? How does insurance play into all of this?
“Most of the time my customers’ questions are actually less about technology and more about their overall OT cybersecurity program, how to get their head around it, and what to do next,” added Bodungen. “The other glaring issue in our industry is the massive skills gap in the workforce. Educating the existing workf ..
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