Control Systems Cybersecurity Workshop

The Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG) is an independent, nonprofit association that brings area leaders together to address major regional issues in the District of Columbia, suburban Maryland and Northern Virginia. COG’s membership is comprised of 300 elected officials from 24 local governments, the Maryland and Virginia state legislatures, and U.S. Congress.For 60 years, COG has helped tackle metropolitan Washington’s biggest challenges, such as restoring the Anacostia River, ensuring the Metro system was fully built, and strengthening emergency preparedness after September 11, 2001. Today, COG’s top priority is advancing theRegion Forwardvision through the work of its Board of Directors, policy boards, committees, and programs.For more information about this event, please contact Steve Bieber (sbieber@mwcog.org).

Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments

The Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG) and the Society of American Military Engineers (SAME) NOVA Post will be providing a 1.5 hour Control Systems Cybersecurity Workshop on Jun 13, 2017 from 10:00 am to 11:30 am in COG’s Ronald F. Kirby Training Center on the first floor (lobby level). The workshop will be led by Michael Chipley, Eric Nickel and Daryl Haegley who have been instrumental in developing the Risk Management Framework (RMF) for Control Systems (CS) guidance, standards and policy.
 
Background
 
Internet-enabled control systems provide critical services that allow facilities to meet the functional and operational needs. However, once installed, many of these systems have minimal protections to keep hackers out. Smart Cities, Smart Buildings, Smart Cars and the Internet of Things continues to evolve at a rapid pace. Yet, with this increasing reliance on Operational Technology (OT), very few people are aware of the potential threats from hackers and others with malicious intent. In a world where companies and individuals are increasingly at risk of having their personal data and assets compromised, it is imperative that control system owners also protect their properties and systems from cyber threats and potential harm. 
 
Learning Objectives
 
The Cybersecuring Control Systems Workshop is geared to help architects, engineers, contractors, owners, facility managers, maintenance engineers, physical security specialists, information assurance professionals—essentially anyone involved with implementing cybersecurity in the CS life cycle—to learn the best practice techniques to better protect their CS. The workshop teaches control system basics, protocols, how to use the NIST Risk Management Framework and the Cybersecurity of Facility-Related Control Systems Design Guidance Unified Facilities Criteria (UFC), and how to use tools and methods to inventory, diagram, identify, attack, defend, contain, eradicate and report a cyber event/incident. This includes understanding and practicing hacker and defender techniques for footprinting, scanning and enumeration, exploitation, post exploitation clean up, and maintaining persistence. Attendees will see how hackers use exploit tools to gain entrance into the control system, pivot through the network, establish beacon command and control channels, modify logs to mask presence, and exfiltrate data. Attendees will also learn how to use the Advanced Control System Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) developed by the U.S. Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) to create a Recovery Jump-Kit to find and eradicate malware and exploits and perform data collection for forensics.
 
On-site seating is limited to 80 people.  A WebEx session is also being provided. 
 
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