My panel at GridSecCon

The E-ISAC has chosen the panelists for the panel that I’ll be moderating at GridSecCon on October 23, and it’s a very interesting one. It includes:

Howard Gugel, Director of Standards Development at NERC

Francois Lemay of Hydro Quebec

Bryan Owen of OSIsoft

Dave Whitehead, Chief Operating Officer of Schweitzer Engineering Labs

Ginger Wright of Idaho National Labs

Of course, I (and the E-ISAC) am very pleased that SEL’s COO will be joining us. This is clearly an indication of the importance that SEL places on getting their message across to the electric power industry. The initial focus of the panel was going to be on utilities themselves, but someone made the decision to instead focus on the vendor side, since vendors haven’t so far had a forum like this to answer questions on how they will work with their customers to implement their supply chain security risk management programs.

It will be a good discussion!

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