Adrian Timbus, Vice President Portfolio, Power Grids Business
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Adrian Timbus, Vice President Portfolio, Power Grids Business

Adrian Timbus received his master and doctoral degree from Aalborg University in Denmark in 2003 and 2007 respectively. Since 2007, Mr. Timbus held several positions at ABB, spanning from R&D, to product management and strategy definition. He has been working in the renewable area for more than a decade and his expertise spans across product […]

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Smart Cities – Moving Toward Utopia with Security in Mind
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Smart Cities – Moving Toward Utopia with Security in Mind

More than half (54%) of the world’s current population resides in urban areas compared with just 30% in the 1950s. In 2009, the global population was estimated at 6.8 billion —around 3.7 billion lived in urban areas. By 2050, 66% of all people will be urban dwellers. Urbanization does not always occur organically. To accelerate […]

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Servitization: Moving Beyond Bits and Bytes for Better IIoT Outcomes
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Servitization: Moving Beyond Bits and Bytes for Better IIoT Outcomes

IIoT has often been presented as a cost-saving mechanism or a means to make factories more productive. It is all that, of course. But the benefits of IoT don’t end there since they allow for the “servitization” of products. Products used to be complete once they left the factory floor. A car, a tractor or […]

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Michael Rothschild, Senior Director of Marketing
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Michael Rothschild, Senior Director of Marketing

Michael Rothschild is Senior Director of Marketing at Indegy and has more than 20 years of experience in IT security. Michael has worked in product management and marketing roles with Thales, RSA, SafeNet (now Gemalto), Dell, Juniper Networks and Radware. In his spare time, he volunteers as an Emergency Medical Technician.

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Smart Sensors Increasingly Important in the Industrial IoT Age
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Smart Sensors Increasingly Important in the Industrial IoT Age

While there is no single standard that could be applied to support a claim that a sensor is “smart,” Smart Sensors are typically characterized by on-board intelligence and the ability to communicate via a digital network.  With the emergence of both the Internet of Things (IoT) and the Industrial IoT (IIoT), new smart IoT sensors […]

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Sid Snitkin, Ph.D., Vice-President
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Sid Snitkin, Ph.D., Vice-President

Sid Snitkin is a senior member of ARC Advisory Group where he has primary responsibility for developing the strategic direction for ARC’s cyber security products and services.   Sid has over 30 years of experience in automation, information systems, and manufacturing, with particular emphasis in the Metals Industry.  Sid has been with ARC for 20 […]

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Guy AlLee, Product Manager
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Guy AlLee, Product Manager

Guy AlLee is a computer industry veteran with over 30 years of experience in computer architecture, hardware, software, energy, security and the Internet of Things (IoT), and has an MS in Computer Engineering. He is Product Manager for IoT Security in Intel’s Software & Services Group.  He is currently working to enable the IoT on […]

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Dean Weber, CTO
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Dean Weber, CTO

With more than 43 years of experience in information and physical security, Dean leads Mocana as Chief Technology Officer after serving as director and CTO at CSC Global CyberSecurity.  CTO at Applied Identity, acquired by Citrix Chief Security Architect at Teros, a leading manufacturer of application security gateways, also acquired by Citrix Co-founder of a large reseller-integrator […]

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Simon Hartley, Strategic Accounts
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Simon Hartley, Strategic Accounts

Mr. Hartley works with government customers at CIS Mobile with its altOS mobile security platform.  He also worked with Apple and Samsung in hardening their mobile devices for U.S. government use and is a frequent speaker on cybersecurity at industry events. Previously, he was Vice President and Co-Founder of the startup RunSafe Security, Vice President […]

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Four challenges for power generation companies in their digitalization journey
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Four challenges for power generation companies in their digitalization journey

Digitalization holds great promise for the power generation industry. However, a range of internal and market challenges can constrain its effective uptake and implementation for those early in the digital journey. Digitalization can play an important role in solving a range of operational and business challenges for power generation companies.Four key challenges for power generation […]

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Is Internet of Things going to replace SCADA systems?
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Is Internet of Things going to replace SCADA systems?

Industrial IoT and the connected factory concept are red-hot topics. Yet often, there is confusion among professionals in both on and offline discussions around the role of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) applications. Questions like, “Does Internet of Things replace SCADA?”, “Can the two be integrated?” and “What is the difference between IoT, SCADA & […]

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Renewable resources can increase cyber threats
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Renewable resources can increase cyber threats

Renewable resources are good for the environment and reduce consumer costs but they are not a panacea to reducing electric grid cyber threats despite the prevailing view by many that renewable resources can reduce the cyber threat to electric utilities. I did a walkdown of several utility-scale solar facilities. Consider your roof-top solar system and […]

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