Breaking the Grid: Unmasking Zero-Day Exploits in Industrial Control Systems
21 Oct 2025
Level 3, Room GW4 | Sands Expo and Convention Centre
Cyber Threat Landscape & Intelligence
ICS face zero-day exploits targeting critical infrastructure. “Breaking the Grid: Unmasking Zero-Day Exploits in Industrial Control Systems” uses case studies—pipeline and water treatment attacks—to highlight challenges in legacy OS, proprietary protocols, real-time constraints, and limited patch cycles. As cyber threats and geopolitical tensions rise, securing ICS under NIST SP 800-82 and IEC 62443 is essential.
Participants learn zero-day discovery—firmware reverse engineering, fuzzing and symbolic execution for PLCs and SCADA.
Objectives:
• Identify high-risk ICS architectures and attack surfaces.
• Analyze exploit chains to show how adversaries bypass defenses.
• Demonstrate detection and response playbooks for high-availability ICS.
• Outline defenses—network segmentation, patch management and threat intelligence sharing.
Attendees receive actionable strategies to defend critical infrastructure against covert ICS attacks for security engineers, ICS operators and decision-makers.
Participants learn zero-day discovery—firmware reverse engineering, fuzzing and symbolic execution for PLCs and SCADA.
Objectives:
• Identify high-risk ICS architectures and attack surfaces.
• Analyze exploit chains to show how adversaries bypass defenses.
• Demonstrate detection and response playbooks for high-availability ICS.
• Outline defenses—network segmentation, patch management and threat intelligence sharing.
Attendees receive actionable strategies to defend critical infrastructure against covert ICS attacks for security engineers, ICS operators and decision-makers.
