OT Symposium: Eliminate the Blind Side
OT Asset Visibility and Security with Armis
Virtual Event Sessions
- A CISOâs Vision for Empowering IT Leaders
- System Integrators Discuss the IT/OT Convergence, itâs Challenges, and the Impact to Your Business
- An Exploration of Two Customer Stories: BNSF Railway and United Airlines
- A CIA Executiveâs âActive Defenseâ Strategy to Cybersecurity
- The Future of OT Security
- Fighters in Cybercrime, a Partnership with Optiv and Armis
1. A CISOâs Vision to Empowering IT Leaders
Curtis Simpson
Curtis Simpson gives his unique perspective on the potential threat that connected devices represent in the convergence of OT, IOT, and IT. Offering the unique dual perspective of both a former customer and current leader at Armis, Curtis speaks from personal experiences to explain how visibility, insights, and the ability to act all play key roles in empowering todayâs IT leaders to mitigate cyberthreats.
2. System Integrators Discuss the IT/OT Convergence, itâs Challenges, and the Impact to Your Business
Panel Discussion
Prashant Mascarenhas, Andrew Shiefelbein, and Pia Capra join Sachin Shah and Curtis Simpson to share their experiences in helping empower their customers in the battle for OT security. Theyâll discuss their perspective on where customers are at in the IT/OT convergence journey, what operational challenges that journey poses, and how all of this impacts their security requirements.
3. An Exploration of Two Customer Stories: BNSF Railway and United Airlines
Panel Discussion
Mike Tiddy, CISO at BNSF Railway and Chris Peters, Sr. Analyst of OT security at United Airlines engage Armis in a deep conversation around some of the biggest OT security challenges, from the customer perspective. Join us for a fast-paced, insight-driven discussion that highlights whatâs happening in the world, how thatâs directly impacting customers like Mike and Chris, and how the Armis platform has played a key role in their asset visibility and security success.
4. CIA Executiveâs âActive Defenseâ Strategy to Cybersecurity
Dan Hoffman
Former CIA executive Dan Hoffman knows all about security, cyber and otherwise. During his tenure in the CIA, he was stationed in Moscow where he helped recruit Russian spies, among other things (we could tell you, butâŚ) Donât miss this fascinating presentation where Dan shares valuable insights into having an âactive defenseâ, a CIA strategy that essentially mitigated threats by proactively disrupting attacks before they ever occurred. And taking the fight to the enemy.
5. The Future of OT Security
Peter Doggart
No one can answer the âwhy Armis, why now?â question better than Peter Doggart, Chief Strategy Officer at Armis. Peter focuses his narrative around the three key themes of cyber resilience, modernizing and digitizing todayâs modern enterprises, and optimizing resources regarding how assets are utilized. He also brings in plenty of his own personal experiences that clearly illuminate why the worldâs largest and most successful companies (40% of the Fortune 100) trust Armis with their asset security requirements.
6. Fighters in Cybercrime, a Partnership with Optiv and Armis
Speaker Bios
Sean Tufts
Optiv and Armis are true partners in the fight against asset-driven cybercrime. Sean Tufts, Practice Director for OT and ICS at Optiv (and former NFL football player) provides a compelling overview of how these two cutting-edge companies work together to equal more than the sum of their parts. Essentially, Optiv and Armis deliver on an integrated vision focused on operationalizing security protocols across OT and IT. The result? An approach to asset visibility, management, and security that empowers customers to use all available tools at the security teamâs disposal.
Scott Bloom
Host
Veteran comedian, television personality and highly-respected professional emcee and keynote speaker, Scott has built a reputation as the go-to choice for business humor having hosted hundreds of events over two decades for companies such as FedEx, Ford, IBM, MetLife, PepsiCo, Pfizer and Verizon. Heâs been featured on Comedy Central, has hosted his own weekly VH1 series as well as national simulcasts for the Grammy Awards from the Palace Theatre.
Curtis Simpson
CISO, Armis
Curtis Simpson, CISO at Armis, has over 20 years of experience as an innovative and forward-leading IT and Security practitioner, leader, and executive, and has been responsible for building and leading world-class global cybersecurity and compliance programs within complex Fortune 100 operations, enterprises, and startups.
Daniel Hoffman
Former CIA, Cybersecurity Expert
Daniel N. Hoffman had a distinguished career with the Central Intelligence Agency, where he was a three-time station chief and a senior executive Clandestine Services officer.
Hoffman also led large-scale HUMINT (human intelligence gathering) and technical programs and his assignments included tours of duty in the former Soviet Union, Europe, and war zones in the Middle East and South Asia. In addition, Hoffman servedas director of the CIA Near East Division.
Peter Doggart
CSO, Armis
Peter Doggart is a seasoned business development executive. Doggart has been in the computer networking and security industry in various forms since 1995, when he founded a value-added reseller in the UK. Prior to joining Armis, he was head of business development at Symantec and Blue Coat (acquired), enterprise product management at a Fortune 1000, and driving global marketing for a VC-backed company in Boston.
Sean Tufts
Practice Director for OT/IOT, Optiv
Sean Tufts is the Practice Director for the OT/IOT business at Optiv. Heâs a former NFL Linebacker tuned Critical Infrastructure security leader. Post NFL, he worked for utility operators and O&G hardware suppliers. Prior to his current leadership position at Optiv, Sean was on the Digital transformation team for General Electric focusing on security services for the O&G market. In 2012 he was honored by Forbes as a â30 Under 30â recipient.
Mike Tiddy
CISO, BNSF Railway
Mike Tiddy is the Chief Information Security Officer at BNSF Railway. He is responsible for managing all cyber security issues including security architecture, identity and access management, security infrastructure, application security, security operations and cyber incident response.
Christoper Peters
Sr. Analyst, OT Cybersecurity, United Airlines
Christopher Peters is currently a Sr. Analyst focusing on Operational Technology within the Infrastructure Cybersecurity group at United Airlines. In this role, Chris is responsible for the inventory and Cyber Defense of a wide range of physical assets from Jet Bridges to Baggage Handling Systems to Airport display systems. Chrisâ experience with OT spans the past 15 years where previous roles include embedded firmware development, Superconducting Helium cryogenic Control Systems, Radiation / Human protection systems, and Linux security and administration.
