Thursday, August 20th • 6:00 PM
Securing the Waterfront: Cyber-Physical Risk and Resilience in U.S. Maritime Infrastructure
Join ISC2 Northern Virginia Chapter for a look at one of the most consequential and least examined pieces of American critical infrastructure: the ports, terminals, and vessels that carry more than 90 percent of U.S. trade by volume.
This is not a theoretical overview. Our speaker spent 24 years in the U.S. Coast Guard and now leads the primary body for maritime cyber threat intelligence sharing. He will show where the standard enterprise security playbook quietly breaks down once operations, not data, are what is at stake.
Event Agenda
Location: Capital One, Building C1, Maplewood Hall (Floor 7), 1600 Capital One Drive, McLean, VA 22102 (see venue note below; this is not our usual building)
- 6:00 to 6:30 PM: Check-in and Networking (Food provided, first come, first served)
- 6:30 to 8:00 PM: Chapter Meeting & Presentation
- 8:00 PM onward: Cyber Social Hour at The Perch, Capital One's rooftop venue, sponsored by Swish Data
Venue & Directions
New location: we are NOT in our usual building
We are usually in the Capital One building called "C2." For this event we are in a different building called "C1," the large glass building above Ometeo and Stellina Pizzeria. Our room is Maplewood Hall on Floor 7.
Address:
Capital One
1600 Capital One Drive
McLean, VA 22102
Bldg C1 | Maplewood Hall (Floor 7)
C1 Parking: There is a surface parking lot adjacent to C1 for guest parking. If that lot is full, use the usual C2 Garage (1680 Capital One Drive) and walk over, or the Wegmans parking garage beneath The Perch.
Directions to Maplewood Hall: Enter the C1 lobby and proceed past the welcome desk to the elevators. Take an elevator to Floor 7. On Floor 7, head left until you reach the security desk. Maplewood Hall is directly opposite it. If you get lost, just ask security for "C1 Maplewood Hall."
On the map below, the C1 building is the red circle and the surface parking lot is the green square.
Session Abstract
Over 90 percent of U.S. trade by volume moves through ports, environments where legacy ICS and SCADA systems, terminal operating platforms, logistics networks, and vessel systems now converge in ways they were never designed to. The consequence is measured in port throughput and physical safety, not just data loss, and it is where the enterprise security playbook most practitioners know quietly breaks down.
This session examines what makes maritime environments different from traditional IT and where the standard approach fails: IT/OT boundary realities, threat detection inside operational technology networks, Zero Trust segmentation in constrained industrial systems, and keeping operations running when connectivity drops. It then walks through a full-spectrum model for port and vessel resilience, OneZero's Port Resilience 360 framework, spanning AI-based continuous OT monitoring, Zero Trust architecture, digital and cyber twins for threat rehearsal, blockchain-based data integrity with post-quantum cryptography, and satellite mesh backup for assured connectivity.
Attendees will leave seeing maritime as an underappreciated critical infrastructure attack surface, with a resilience framework they can apply anywhere cyber and physical risk converge.
Key Discussion Points
- Why Maritime Is Different: Where enterprise IT assumptions fail once port throughput and physical safety are the loss condition.
- IT/OT Boundary Realities: Threat detection inside operational technology networks that were never built to be watched.
- Zero Trust in Constrained Systems: Segmentation strategies for industrial environments that cannot be re-architected overnight.
- Operating Through Degraded Connectivity: Keeping terminals and vessels running when the link drops.
- Port Resilience 360: Continuous OT monitoring, digital and cyber twins for threat rehearsal, post-quantum data integrity, and satellite mesh backup.
Featured Speaker
Featured Speaker
Shawn Whiteside
SVP, Commercial Practice @ OneZero Solutions
Shawn Whiteside leads OneZero Solutions' commercial cybersecurity and digital resilience work across maritime, critical infrastructure, healthcare, and the defense industrial base. He also serves as Executive Director of the Maritime Transportation System ISAC (MTS-ISAC), the primary body for maritime cyber threat intelligence and information sharing, and sits on the Critical Infrastructure Research Forum Steering Committee.
A retired U.S. Coast Guard officer with 24 years of service and two command tours, Shawn served as a Congressional Fellow on the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee and speaks frequently at maritime and critical infrastructure security forums worldwide. He holds a Master's in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School and a Bachelor of Science from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy.
Don't miss this opportunity to hear from a leader at the intersection of cyber and physical risk in one of the nation's most exposed and least examined critical infrastructure sectors.
We look forward to seeing you there!