Andrew Ginter is vice president of Industrial Security at Waterfall Security Solutions. He has managed the development of commercial products for computer networking, industrial control systems, control system to enterprise middleware, and industrial cyber security. Andrew is currently the co-chair of the ISA SP-99 WG1 working group and represents Waterfall Security Solutions to NIST, NERC-CIP and other ISA SP-99 working groups and other standards bodise. He frequently writes and speaks frequently on industrial control system cyber security topics. Andrew has degrees in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Calgary, as well as ISP, ITCP and CISSP accreditations.
For years, corporate network security programs were regarded as the gold standard for industrial control system (ICS) cybersecurity, but this is changing.
Andrew Ginter says that most critical infrastructure control systems were not designed with security in mind, and history has proven that these systems are vulnerable to attack and to performance
