Ms. Land will discuss cyber security considerations for today’s industrial control systems taking a look at the unique, and not so unique, cyber threats posed to Industrial Control Systems. Based on her background and knowledge, she will describe some of the typical mistakes that seen again and again – even with the best cyber prevention frameworks in place and will provide a series of recommendations for cyber risk prevention.

Keynote Speaker
Susan K. (Kathy) Land, Missile Defense Agency

As a Program Manager for a United States Federal Government agency. Ms. Land has served three terms on the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Board of Directors. She served as a member of the IEEE-USA Board of Directors (2013, 2016), as a member of Region 3 Executive Committee (2016, 2017), was President of the IEEE Computer Society in 2009. She has more than 25 years of industry experience in the application of software engineering methodologies, the management of information systems, and leadership of software development teams.

Ms. Land is an IEEE Fellow and is the author or co-author of a number of texts, papers, webinars all supporting sound software engineering principles and practical application of software process methodologies.

Missile Defense Agency (2010 – Current)

Ms. Land is the Program Manager for Spiral 8.2-3 Product Development for the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Command, Control, Battle Management, & Communications (C2BMC), Huntsville, AL. This is a 3-year $120M development effort. She was previously the Chief Engineer and Deputy Program Manager for Spiral 8.2-1 C2BMC, a 7-year $1.2B effort successfully fielding in 2016. She leads and manages organizational interactions of over 150 Contractor, UARC and FFRDC team members.