Pascal Ackerman - Industrial Cybersecurity: Efficiently secure critical infrastructure systems

BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI

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First published: October 2017

Production reference: 1161017

ISBN 978-1-78839-515-1

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Pascal Ackerman is a seasoned industrial security professional with a degree in electrical engineering and over 15 years of experience in designing, troubleshooting, and securing large-scale industrial control systems and the various types of network technologies they utilize. After more than a decade of hands-on, in-the-field experience, he joined Rockwell Automation in 2015 and is currently employed as Senior Consultant of Industrial Cybersecurity with the Network and Security Services Group. He recently became a digital nomad and now travels the world with his family while fighting cyber adversaries.

Richard Diver has over 20 years' experience in information technology across multiple sectors and geographies. He has worked for the largest companies, such as Microsoft, and also with smaller consultancies and business in the UK, Belgium, Australia, and the USA. With a deep technical background in Microsoft products and strong experience with strategy and architecture across industries, he is now focused on security to protect sensitive information, business-critical infrastructure, end-user mobility, and identity management.

Richard lives near Chicago with his wife and three daughters, and is passionate about technology and bringing enthusiasm to every workplace.

Sanjeev Kumar Jaiswal is a computer science graduate with 8 years of industrial experience. He uses Perl, Python, and GNU/Linux for his day-to-day activities. He is currently working on projects involving penetration testing, source code review, security design, and implementations. He is mostly involved in web and cloud security projects.

Sanjeev loves teaching to engineering students and IT professionals. He has been teaching for the past 8 years in his leisure time. He is currently learning machine learning for cybersecurity and cryptography.

He founded Alien Coders, based on the learning through sharing principle for computer science students and IT professionals in 2010, which became a huge hit in India among engineering students. You can follow him on Facebook at aliencoders, on Twitter at @aliencoders, and on GitHub at aliencoders.

He wrote Instant PageSpeed Optimization and co-authored Learning Django Web Development with Packt . He has reviewed more than seven books for Packt and looks forward to authoring or reviewing more, from Packt as well as others.

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