Mark Fabro is President and Chief Security Scientist for Lofty Perch, Inc. a security company focused on SCADA and control system cybersecurity. As an expert in attack methodologies and adversarial techniques his projects have included supporting some of largest infrastructure asset owners in the world and he has been instrumental in creating first generation hardened OS firewalls along with assisting the White House in crafting the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace
Mr. Fabro was a contributing specialist to the U.S. National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace, the Cyber Annex to the National Response Framework, and the DoE Cybersecurity Capability Maturity Model (C2M2). He’s authored several of the Recommended Practices for the DHS ICS-CERT, is a co-founder of the Repository for Industrials Security Incidents (RISI) and is a member of the NERC Smart Grid and Cyber Attack Task Forces.
He is a regular instructor/speaker at BlackHat, SANS and others. For his work in critical infrastructure protection, he was recognized as one of the ’25 Most Influential Consultants in the World’ and named ‘Information Security Professional of the Year’ by SC Magazine.
Previously he held senior positions with Bearing Point (now Deloitte), American Management Systems (now CGI) and Secure Computing Corporation (now McAfee).