CHICAGO – An upcoming conference in Chicago will focus on SCADA security and penetration techniques. The “open workshop” will include discussions, briefings of recent security incidents, and slide presentations on prevention against hacking of PLC, RTU, and other embedded instrumentation and controls, conference organizers say.

Attendees will participate in “red teaming” exercises and security countermeasure techniques. The organizers of the not-for-profit conference said attendees will be encouraged to develop policies and standard ethical positions.

“The reason we're doing this is because most of the R&D is not getting out in the open in any form. We're not eager to make anyone look bad, but at the same time, we need to figure where the fragile parts of common embedded systems are, how we can mitigate these problems, and what to tune our intrusion monitoring systems to,” said one of the organizers.

The group seeks embedded system developers, particularly software, and hardware developers willing to discuss broad-based issues with end-users, IT security professionals and others.

The event takes place May 14-15.

For more information, visit http://gathering.infracritical.com.