Agenda
Hack The Railroad 2024 Speakers + Sessions
Hack The Railroad attendees heard from this year's incredible lineup of speakers
DAY ONE
Registration and Breakfast : 7:30 – 8:30
Welcome Address by TAC, Cylus & Amtrak
8:30 – 8:45
Jesse Whaley
CISO, Amtrak
8:45 – 9:30
Keynote : Keeping Boards Engaged on Cybersecurity Matters
A.J. Kelly
Senior Principal IT Security Analyst, Amtrak
9:30 – 10:05
Securing the Perimeter: Cyber Defense through Physical Assessments
Dale Beauchamp
Sr. Director Focused Operations, Amtrak
10:05 – 10:45
Insider Threat Inside Out
Coffee Break : 10:45 - 11:00
Carolyn Hayward-Williams
Director, Federal Railroad Administration (FRA)
11:00 – 11:45
Cyber Informed Engineering and Secure By Design Concepts for Operational Technology; How This Aligns to FRA Regulations
Joel Waugh
VP of Cybersecurity And CISO Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA)
11:45 – 12:30
Challenges and Opportunities for Securing Light Passenger Rail
Lunch : 12:30 -13:15
Yoni Korlander
Technical Director, Cylus
13:15 – 14:00
Vulnerability Management in Rail: Practical Use Cases for Enhanced Security
Josh Russel
Principal Security Architect, CSX
14:00 – 14:45
New Approaches to Detecting Threats in OT Environments
Break : 14:45 - 15:00
Dr. Nii Attoh-Okine
Professor and Chair, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Univ of Maryland
15:00 – 15:45
MITRE Attack Framework and Railway Cybersecurity
Bart Shields
CEO, AKM Cyber Corp
Klemens Gieger
Rail Cybersecurity Expert
15:45 – 16:30
Next Gen Cybersecurity for Rail Applications
Post Event Reception & Networking Event : 16:30 - 18:30 Cocktails and Hors d'oeuvres served
DAY TWO
Breakfast 7:30 – 8:30
Senator Kathryn Fry-Hester
Maryland State Senator, Senate Chair, Joint Committee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology and Biotechnology
8:30 – 8:45
Welcome by Maryland Department of Transportation
Tariq Habib
CISO, State of NY Metropolitan Transportation Authority
8:45 – 9:30
Keynote : How do we align every stakeholder to defend and secure the public transportation sector?
John J. Garstka
Director of Cyber Warfare Directorate, OSD Acquisition and Sustainment
9:30 – 10:15
Keynote : Senior Staff
COFFEE Break : 10:15 - 10:30
Manpreet Mann
Senior Transit Systems Program Manager, AECOM
10:30 – 11:00
Cyber Security Risk Management for Brownfield OT Systems
11:00 – 12:00
The impacts of the regulatory requirements regarding cybersecurity on the rail industry
Anthony Sabella
Principal CISO Advisor, Enterprise CTO, Cisco
Todd Gurela
Sr Director Cisco Office of the CTO, Industries, Cisco
David Carroll
Associate Director for Mission Engineering, CISA
Miki Shifman
Co-Founder and CTO, Cylus
Moderator: Justin Smith
Director Cyber Engineering, Amtrak
Lunch Break : 12:00 - 13:00
Yaniv Mallet
Field CTO, Cylus
13:00 – 13:45
From SOC to OCC – How Wide is the Gap?
13:45 – 14:30
Incident Response and Preparing Rail Systems for the Next Major Attack
Matthew Rogers, PhD
Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Cybersecurity Expert, Office of the Technical Director, CISA
Scott Thompson
Cybersecurity Manager, CACI Inc.
Latecia Walters
CISO, DiceCyber
David Mkrtchian
Vice President, Research, Shift5
Moderator : Olivia Phillips
Business Information Security Officer, Amtrak
Break: 14:30 - 14:45
Calvin Gerald-Kornmann
Principal-Managing Member, VoC Technology Group
14:45 – 15:30
Elevating Rail Cybersecurity through an Integrated CMDB, ServiceNow, and Cloud Infrastructure Approach
Monta Elkins
Hacker-in-Chief, Foxguard
15:30 – 16:15
A Simple Strategy for Securing Devices Running Firmware
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