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Hacking Critical Infrastructure Like You’re Not a N00b

This presentation is targeted towards an audience that already understands how to compromise the embedded systems that run a process and now is looking at manipulating the physics of the process itself. In as much as time allows, it will cover all the things necessary to accomplish more than exercising the automatic shutdown logic of a process.

Speaker

Jason Larsen

Jason Larsen is a Principal Security Consultant for IOActive. Larsen is a professional hacker specializing in critical infrastructure and process control systems. Over the last several years he has been doing focused research into remote physical damage. Larsen graduated from Idaho State University where he worked doing Monte Carlo and pharmacokinetic modeling for Boron-Neutron Capture Therapy. He was one of the founding members of the Cyber-Security Department at the Idaho National Labs, which hosts the ICS-CERT and the National SCADA Tested. Larsen has audited most of the major process control and SCADA systems as well as having extensive experience doing penetration tests against live systems.

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