Title: Building and Maintaining an ICS/OT Cyber Workforce.

Abstract:

Finding, hiring, and retaining cybersecurity professionals with ICS/OT experience is arduous. The number of factors working against organizations to properly staff and resource their ICS/OT cybersecurity teams is immense (workforce shortages, budget limitations, org site/location reqs, etc.) So if we’re struggling to find or afford the qualified ICS/OT cybersecurity professionals externally, how can we build, staff, and train our teams to execute their mission, harden, and increase resiliency in our environments, with the personnel we already have?

Speaker Bio:

Tyler Jansen is an Industrial Cybersecurity Engineer with 1898 & Co.’s Managed Security Services. Tyler started in cybersecurity as a Detection & Counter-Intrusion analyst on Navy Cyber Protection Teams (CPTs) geared towards protecting the Navy and DOD’s critical assets and infrastructure. Tyler served on operations to proactively monitor, hunt, and remediate Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) presence from critical systems controlling pipelines, fuel storage facilities, building automation controls, and shipboard engineering networks. Tyler also was a co-creator and instructor for the Navy’s Senior Hunt Analyst job qualification program. Since joining 1898 & Co. in 2022 Tyler has continued to help secure critical infrastructure in a variety of industry verticals such as power generation, water/wastewater processing, pipeline, and refinery operations.