Brian Foster is a Lead OT Security Architect at Southern California Edison. He is a highly experienced OT security leader but started his career as a classically trained controls engineer. After many years he found himself drawn back to his passion in OT security and now specializes in the Energy Utility vertical.

In his roles with SCE, he has led and advised teams of cyber security engineers and architects to improve the security posture on multiple Grid Modernization projects, overseen sharing of threat intelligence for the Grid Modernization Generation Management System program Security (OT/ICS, IT), and worked with Risk Management to measure and socialize identified risks and associated compensating controls.

Overall, in his efforts to secure critical infrastructure, Brian has overseen and advised on the security of next-generation control systems using state-of-the-art technologies, and he has pushed some not-so-state-of-the-art systems towards a modern security posture.