Infosec professional, retired firefighter, and occasional corporate shill, Adam has spent his entire life taking things apart and then making the reassembly someone else’s problem.

Topic: The Air Goes In and Out, the Blood Goes Round and Round. Organizing Incident Response.

We often hear the metaphor: working in information security is akin to firefighting. So, let’s go there! Emergency Service providers employ a framework called NIMS-ICS (National Incident Management System - Incident Command System) to handle disasters of any size. Most small-to-medium business have a incident-response capability vacuum; with the IT people receiving a call to service when bad things happen. They’re expected to perform miracles with limited resources, every time, under exceptional pressure. Adam explores the capability to port ICS functionality into tech; to organize breaches, hacks, failures, and disasters at any level. Blue team - GO!