It is no secret America's infrastructure is in need of upgrade. Roads, bridges, water treatment facilities, underground and overhead utility assets generally need to be replaced or retro-fitted. The preventative maintenance programs that exist are not keeping up with system growth. There is just not enough money, trained professionals, or time to accomplish this task before a major failure will overtake one or more of the systems involved. Using limited knowledge and minimum financial resources the local power grid could be successfully compromised and exploited into a much larger scale coordinated attack on the national grid. This talk will identify the physical weaknesses and describe a hypothetical attack with its possible outcome, as well as how we prevent these sorts of attacks.

Bill Gardner is an Assistant Professor at Marshall University; President and Principal Security Consultant at BlackRock Consulting; Information Security Chair at the Appalachian Institute of Digital Evidence; and co-founder of the Hack3rCon and 304Geeks. Bill is the co-author of "Building an Information Security Awareness Program: Defending Against Social Engineering and Technical Threats" and a contributor to the new edition of "Google Hacking for Penetration Testers". Kevin is a graduate student at Marshall University. Kevin has twenty-four years of service with American Electric Power (ret.) as an ‰ÛÏA‰Û class lineman Southern West Virginia. Kevin also worked as a civilian security contractor for Infra-Safe Corporation, (Department of Defense contractor). At Infra-Safe he was responsible for United States Army Reserve Centers (USARC) arms vault security and inspections for the 99th Division's Southeastern region from Delaware to Suffork Virginia.

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