Mark Fabro
President and Chief Security Scientist, Lofty Perch Recently, for his work in critical infrastructure protection, he was recognized as one of the "25 Most Influential Consultants in the World" and named "Information Security Professional of the Year" by SC Magazine.
About this speaker
Mark Fabro is the President and Chief Security Scientist for Lofty Perch Inc. As an OT/ICS cyber security SME specializing in threat models and adversarial kill chain attributes he has been involved in more than 250 tactical cyber/physical assessments with more than 100 of those in water/wastewater. His projects have included supporting some of the largest water/wastewater asset owners in the world and have covered all major infrastructure sectors. In addition to being involved in the development of several security standards for water, transportation, and energy sectors he has also testified to the United States Congress on cyber security risk and threats to the North American Bulk Power System.
Mr. Fabro was a contributing specialist to the U.S. National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace, the Cyber Annex to the U.S. National Response Framework, the post-Katrina control systems recovery plan for Oil and Gas and most recently the DoE/White House Cybersecurity Capability Maturity Model (C2M2). He has authored several of the Recommended Practices for the DHS Control Systems Security Program/ICS-CERT, updated the AWWA/AWWRF cyber security guidelines, helped found the Repository for Industrials Security Incidents (RISI), and has been a member of both the NERC Smart Grid and Cyber Attack Task Forces. He has also contributed to several standards and practices specific to ICS/SCADA security, namely NIST 800-82, 800-53, ISA/IEC62443, ANSI/AWWA G430-14, NISTR 7628 and was on the American Public Transit Association Control Systems Cyber Security Working Group. In the nuclear realm he has been a contributing SME to IAEA Nuclear Computer Security programs including work for NST-036 and the IAEA NSS-10 (Design Basis Threat DBT).
