AFCEA London – October 2021 – PwC – Chrissy Morgan – IoT and OT R&D Manager for PwC UK – “Malicious Machines”

AFCEA London Chapter – First face to face meeting.

The second meeting for our 2021 / 2022 Season, will held be on Thursday 7th October and will also be our first “live” event for 18 months, or so.  We are very kindly being hosted by PwC UK, at their 7 Moor London Riverside, London SE1 2RT offices, close to London Bridge Station.  Following the speaker’s presentation, there will be the usual informal networking and drinks reception.  This is a very welcome first step back to something like “normality” for the London Chapter after such a long time.

Our host speaker for the evening will be Chrissy Morgan – PwC’s IoT & OT R&D Manager and the title of her presentation will be “Malicious Machines”.

With the dramatic increase of connected devices and developers pushing the frontiers of what is possible with IoT technology, we need to understand that it is not just the technology that is evolving, so are the threats.

This talk will cover the evolution of IoT malware and research.  The harsh reality is that despite all the advancements, while we are putting out the fires of legacy systems, unpatched hardware or inadequately monitored flat networks, threat actors will exploit new vulnerabilities and adapt their methods to avoid detection.

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Chrissy Morgan is the IoT and OT R&D Manager for PwC UK. She provides strategic technical insight and research into client environments and services within Operational Technology.  She manages the PwC UK IoT/OT Labs, leads our OT research programs and works closely across our national and international teams.  She provides the latest findings from our testing of vendor tooling and is a contributor to improvement and preview programs.  Chrissy has an MSc in Advanced Security and Digital forensics and 19 years’ experience within IT and consulting, working previously with Government, Pharmaceutical, Close protection and Physical Security sectors.

Chrissy has marked achievements for her contribution and research, including winning the (ISC)² Up and Coming Security Professional award and being a SC magazine Top Woman of Cyber Security.  A natural problem solver, she has won multiple technical Capture the Flag tournaments such as the Cyber Security Challenge UK, a BlackHat Challenge Coin, placed Top 5 for Pragyan International CTF and SANS ICS Tournament with her teams.  She is an experienced international speaker and has held IoT hardware hacking workshops with organisations such as The World Economic Forum.

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The running and management of this event will be governed by any covid restrictions that may remain in place at the venue and the number of attendees may be limited.  In the event that we have to limit numbers and we are over-subscribed, priority will be on a “first come first served” basis.  Any unsuccessful bookings will be notified and refunded.

Booking fees will be back to the pre-pandemic levels of £30 for members, £40 for non-Members and £25 for gov / mil.  Click here for conditions regarding preferential rates.  We will be accepting pre-paid tickets for those who have them banked.

This meeting is open only to pre-registered attendees and the closing date for bookings is 12:00 – 1^st October 2021.

To register, click here for direct access to the booking form.

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