The iHub San Joaquin and The San Joaquin Partnership hosted the ICS/SCADA Connected Systems – Cybersecurity event on Friday the 28th of February 2020. BOSS along with Inductive Automation and Direct Defense partnered with the aforementioned to help make this event come together.

With over 100 attendees the event was a great success. Travis Cox (Inductive Automation) spoke about the importance of securing SCADA systems and best practices in doing so. Chris Walcutt (Direct Defense) spoke as well and told first hand stories of cybersecurity breaches in many major industries critical to our countries infrastructure. He jokingly announced the acronym “VTD” (Vendor Transmitted Disease) and explained the importance of having a in-depth plan when securing your businesses infrastructure. One bad vendor can be a leak into hacking your business and causing damage.

The conference ended with a panel discussion moderated by Don Pearson – VP Sales and Marketing, Inductive Automation with panelists:
Vitaliy Panych – State Chief Information Security Officer (Acting) California Department of Technology Office of Information Security
Marc Glenn – Sr. Cybersecurity Intelligence Analyst, CA Governor’s Office of Emergency Services
Christopher Walcutt – VP of Connected Systems, Direct Defense
Travis Cox – Co-Director of Sales Engineering, Inductive Automation

BOSS Business Systems, Inc produced all marketing materials and website for this non-profit event with the intention to bring technology to Stockton, CA.

Nearly 100 people attended last Thursday’s event at The Reserve at Spanos Park to find out more about Cyber security.

“With our recent launch of our managed IT services division, this was a great event to raise awareness of the important topic of social engineering. The only complaint of attendees was that it wasn’t long enough!”. – Russell Fisher, CEO of BOSS Business Systems.

The event was part of the iHub San Joaquins Leadership Series and was done in partnership with the San Joaquin Partnership. Mitch Taylor, CISSP for Ingomar Packaging was the keynote speaker and covered the major aspects of how humans are the key link to stopping cyber attacks in their organization. At the conclusion of the keynote there was a panel of experts who answered many questions from the highly engaged audience. The panel consisted of Alethe Denis, an award winning ethical hacker, Kirk Greene from Direct Defense, Justin Lee from the cyber security division of the FBI, and Ben Wiesner and experienced ethical hacker.

The audience enjoyed a posh lunch and mixing opportunities during the afternoon. Stay tuned for up coming events on the same topic due to the popularity.

This is the 4th year that BOSS has sponsored and supported the H2O Hackathon in Stockton CA. BOSS CEO Russell Fisher sits on the committee as a volunteer to put this event on each year. BOSS creates and maintains the website for the event as well as handles most of the graphics design and printing of marketing collateral. In addition, BOSS staff are present on the day of the event to attend and help out in any way needed. We are currently working on the 2020 event which will be bigger and better than ever! Literally hundreds of high school and college students attend and compete for the $5,000 grand prize award. Check out the video below of the 2019 event.