MRO HOT TOPICS! June 15, 2017

MRO Security Advisory Council to Host “Securing

SCADA” Webinar

June 29, 2017 │10 a.m. – 11 a.m. CDT

Presented by: Andrew Ginter, VP Industrial Security, Waterfall Security

Jodi Jensen, Operations Support Manager, Western Area Power Administration, MRO SAC Member

Tyler Stinson, Substation Communications Engineer, Xcel Energy, MRO SAC Member

Overview:

This “Securing SCADA” webinar is sponsored by the MRO Security Advisory Council (SAC)

and will provide information on how to better secure SCADA systems, along with a deeper dive

into securing SCADA and substation networks.

Andrew Ginter promotes, evangelizes and communicates Waterfall’s innovative technological

approach to cybersecurity for industrial control networks and critical network infrastructures. He

spent 25 years leading and managing R&D for commercial products for computer networking,

industrial control systems and industrial cyber security for leading vendors including Hewlett-

Packard, Agilent Technologies and Industrial Defender. Andrew holds degrees in Applied

Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Calgary, as well as ISP, ITCP, and

CISSP accreditations. His presentation will focus on “SCADA Security – What’s Broken and

How to Fix it.”

MRO SAC members with expertise in SCADA security, Jodi Jensen and Tyler Stinson will pro-

vide a brief overview on “SCADA Network Perimeter Security,” and “Substation Network Perim-

eter Security.”

Registration for this webinar expires at 5 p.m. CDT on June 28, 2017.

You may register here.

Upon registration, and again on the morning of June 29, 2017, you will receive the WebEx login

information.

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Midwest Reliability Organization (MRO) is a non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring the reliability and

security of the bulk power system in the north central region of North America, including parts of both the

United States and Canada. MRO is one of eight regional entities in North America operating under authori-

ty from regulators in the United States and Canada through a delegation agreement with the North Ameri-

can Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC). The primary focus of MRO is ensuring compliance with interna-

tional reliability standards, performing assessments of the electric grid, and other matters impacting reliabil-

ity of the bulk electric system.

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