3rd Annual Rail Cybersecurity USA Conference 2023 | Cyber Senate | 23 May 2023 | UIC Innovation Center, 1240 W Harrison St, Chicago, IL 60607, USA

Protecting modern railway infrastructure from cyberattacks is imperative and in many cases overlooked or neglected in the push for digital transformation. To remain competitive organisations must adopt new technologies, processes and business models, all of which can deliver significant shareholder value, but are not without their share of cyber risk. The increase in supply chain and ransomware attacks across critical infrastructure and manufacturing industries has highlighted just how vulnerable our interconnected systems are and the transportation sector is no exception. How can we innovate securely? Transport and logistics are crucial to our economys’ success globally. This conference will provide cyber security experts, product manufacturers and asset owners a unique forum to better define how we collaborate, share best practices and define our maturity in acting on intelligence.

This conference will address the railways “Detect, Respond and Recover,” initiatives, highlight the growing dependence of the “Internet of Rail,” our inherent vulnerabilities created in the design of these “system of systems” and how the sector can mitigate risk and respond appropriately. Attendees will hear insight on how manufacturers are securing rolling stock by design (locomotives and freight), TSA Security Directive 1580/82-2022-01, the challenges of IoT proliferation, predictive maintenance and the maturing of endpoint detection. Furthermore, we will dig deeper into areas such as cloud monitoring, identifying critical assets and managing blindspots, the convergence of IT and OT, remote access security, potential impacts on safety, governance, supply chain, ransomware and how we can operationalise data to mitigate threats and enhance organisational efficiency.

2023 Speakers

Christian Schlehuber
Expert for CyberSecurity OT/ICS, Cybershield Consulting

Ahmed Idrees
Operations Technology & SCADA, Sound Transit

Barbara Grofe
CIO, Spartan Corp.

Brian Yoshino
Cybersecurity Advisor (Chicago), Region 5, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

Christopher L. Crawford
Transportation Industry Director, Waterfall Security Solutions

Christopher Mee
VP, Aon

David Dealy
Managing Partner, Brooks International

Eddy Thesee
VP Cybersecurity, Alstom

Egoitz Lizaso Legarda
Head of Rolling Stock Cybersecurity, CAF

Fouzia Ziate
Information Security Architect, The Société de transport de Montréal

Graham Nasby
Senior Manager of OT Security Architecture, CN Rail

Hadi Meshgi
Transit Comms/Systems Engineering Lead, VHB New York

Jim Berry
Regional Account Manager, TXOne Networks

Jonathan Pollet
Founder, Executive Director,Red Tiger Security

Joshua Russell
Principal Security Architect, CSX

Ken Keiser
Manager | OT/ICS Cybersecurity Practice, EY Consulting

Nik Urlaub
Critical Infrastructure Resiliency and Safety Capability Area Lead, Cyber Infrastructure Protection Innovation Center, MITRE Labs, PG

Patrick Guest
CIO, Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District

Rafail Portnoy
CTO, Metropolitan Transportation Authority (NY)

Serge Benoliel
Head of Product and Solution Cybersecurity Governance and Expertise, Alstom

Tariq Habib
CISO, Metropolitan Transportation Authority (NY)

Thomas Farmer
Assistant Vice President – Security, Association of American Railroads

Todd Ellis
Rail Systems Global Lead – Communications, IT Infrastructure & Cybersecurity, Hatch

Tony Collings
Cybersecurity Advisor / Cybersecurity State Coordinator (Illinois), Region 5, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

Victor Lough
Cyber Security Business Consultant, Schneider Electric

Willie Ngassa
Senior Manager – Delivery of Metro Technological Services, The Société de transport de Montréal

Yves Younan
Senior Manager, Talos Security Intelligence and Research Group, Cisco

2023 Sponsors

CO- SPONSOR:
• Waterfall Security Solution

ASSOCIATE SPONSORS:
• TXONE
• Alstom