SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 13, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Bedrock Automation is proud to announce that it is a sponsor of the 2014 Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Cyber Security Conference, to be held October 20 - 23, 2014 at the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center in Atlanta, Georgia.

Now in its 12th year, the conference is the foremost and longest-running cyber security-focused event series for the industrial control systems sectors and will cater to the energy, utility, chemical, transportation, manufacturing, and other industrial and critical infrastructure organizations.

Produced by SecurityWeek, the conference will address ICS/SCADA topics including protection for SCADA systems, plant control systems, engineering workstations, substation equipment, programmable logic controllers (PLCs), and other field control system devices.

"The value to attendees at the conference is inherent with the robust exchange of technical information, actual incidents, insights and best practices to help protect critical infrastructures from cyber attacks," said Joe Weiss, founder of the ICS Cyber Security Conference, which was acquired by SecurityWeek in April 2014.

"The IT community and ICS community are now bridging the security gap," Weiss added. "It has become paramount that critical infrastructures balance the needs of ICS reliability and safety with cyber security."

For more information on the 2014 ICS Cyber Security Conference or to register, visit http://www.icscybersecurityconference.com or contact the SecurityWeek Events team by email at events@securityweek.com.

About Bedrock Automation

Starting with a blank sheet of paper and three prime directives to reinvent industrial control systems: Simple, Scalable, Secure, a new automation paradigm has been created. Simple: Engineer any automation solution with less than ten part numbers including a universal magnetic backplane, universal analog, discrete and fieldbus IO, universal smart coupled power, one universal extreme controller, and just one universal system cable. Scalable: Unlimited scalability from tens to tens of thousands of IO with software selectable redundancy, an ultra-fast 4Gb magnetic backplane and patented Black Fabric(TM) communications. Secure: Transparent instant cyber security working 24/7. Black Fabric(TM) Cybershield is Bedrock's embedded deep trust cyber defense using patented processor, memory, communications, interconnections, backplane and packaging technologies to integrate cyber security into every module at birth. Bedrock Automation, www.bedrockautomation.com, is a newly created subsidiary of Maxim Integrated (Nasdaq: MXIM).

About the ICS Cyber Security Conference

The ICS Cyber Security Conference is the conference where ICS users, ICS vendors, system security providers and government representatives meet to discuss the latest cyber-incidents, analyze their causes and cooperate on solutions. Since its first edition in 2002, the conference has attracted a continually rising interest as both the stakes of critical infrastructure protection and the distinctiveness of securing ICSs become increasingly apparent. Learn more and register at www.icscybersecurityconference.com

Contact:
Bob Honor
Bedrock Automation
408-373-6076
bob.honor@bedrockautomation.com

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