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Chris Blask has a career that spans the breadth of the industrial control system cybersecurity space. From beginnings as a control system engineer he soon saw invented one of the first commercial firewall products. Joining Cisco Systems he resurrected the company’s firewall business and built it to a position of global leadership, a legacy that continues to this day. In 2006 he recognized the need for shared situational awareness to secure cyberphysical infrastructure and has been a driving force behind this effort since.
Today Mr. Blask is actively involved with a wide range of domestic and international efforts. He is Founder and CEO of ICS Cybersecurity, Inc.; Chair of the Industrial Control System Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ICS-ISAC) and adviser to several key information security firms.