Monta Elkins

Monta Elkins is currently "Hacker-in-Chief" for FoxGuard Solutions, an ICS patch provider. A security researcher and consultant; he was formerly Security Architect for Rackspace and the first ISO for Radford University.

He has been a speaker at DEFCON, Homeland Security's ICSJWG (Industrial Control Systems Joint Working Group), EnergySec's Security Summit, VASCAN, GE Digital Energy's Annual Software Summit, Educause Security Professionals Conference, Toshiba's Industrial Control Systems Conference, NERC's GridSecCon, ICS CyberSecurity by Security Week, UTC Telecom and other security conferences.

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Monta also is the recipient of the EnergySec's Cyber Security Professional of the Year Award for 2018. Elkins was recognized by the Industrial Control System (ICS) community and staff at EnergySec for his exceptional contributions to ICS security.

Monta is the author and instructor of the "Defense against the Dark Arts" hands-on, hacker tools and techniques classes. He is also a guest lecturer for Virginia Tech and teaches rapid prototyping and Arduino classes with Let's Code Blacksburg. He has a YouTube channel as well.

See Monta speak at the SANS ICS Summit 2018



SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
Watch Monta's talk at CS3STHLM 2019, "Nation-State Supply Chain Attacks for Dummies and You Too"

PUBLICATION

Check out Monta's YouTube Channel for insight on all things electronics

ACCOLADES
Named Cyber Security Professional of the Year 2018 Energy Sec