About the Technical Editor
Joel Langill has worked for 30 years exclusively in the industrial automation and control industry. His experience was developed through in-depth, comprehensive architecture design, product development, implementation, and system migration in a variety of roles having exposure to most industry sectors. Having worked on both greenfield and brownfield projects around the world, he has rare and insightful insight into the risks and mitigation of cyber threats in industrial control systems as they have been designed, deployed, and maintained.
He is currently an independent consultant focusing on assisting clients in assessing and defending their automation systems from the risk of cyber threats that may originate both inside and outside the enterprise. He founded and maintains the popular security website SCADAhacker.com which offers visitors extensive resources in understanding, evaluating, and securing control systems. He also developed a specialized training curriculum that focuses on understanding and securing control systems from cyber threats based on a combination of awareness, standards-based practices, industry-leading technologies, and customized methodologies focusing entirely on control system architectures.
His unique experience and proven capabilities have fostered business relationships with several large industry firms, including Gartner, Kaspersky Labs, McAfee, Siemens, Tofino Security, and Waterfall Security Solutions. He devotes time to independent research relating to control system security, and regularly blogs on the evaluation and security of control systems.
He is a voting member of the ISA99 committee on industrial security for control systems, and was a lead contributor to the ISA99 technical report on the Stuxnet malware. He is also the Director of Critical Infrastructure and SCADA representative for the Cyber Security Forum Initiative. His certifications include: Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), Certified Penetration Tester (CPT), Certified SCADA Security Architect (CSSA), and TÜV Functional Safety Engineer (FSEng). Joel has also obtained extensive training through the US Dept. of Homeland Security FEMA Emergency Management Institute, having completed ICS-400 on incident command and crisis management. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois–Champaign with a BS (Bronze Tablet) in Electrical Engineering.