Event Summary
Organizations operating critical infrastructure face increasing threats from nation-state adversaries, yet many lack a clear understanding of how these threats actually manifest in operational environments. Adversary tactics—ranging from cyber intrusions to physical and hybrid attacks—are often misunderstood or viewed as too complex to translate into practical action.
Without this understanding, organizations may underestimate vulnerabilities, fail to detect early warning signs, and remain unprepared for targeted attacks. This can result in operational disruption, compromised systems, safety risks, and significant financial and reputational damage, especially in sectors like energy and infrastructure that are frequent targets.
This session provides a clear, practical breakdown of adversary tactics, using real-world examples of nation-state behavior—including cyber operations, social engineering, and hybrid threat approaches. It focuses on translating threat intelligence into actionable insights, helping organizations understand not just what the threats are, but how they work and how to respond effectively.
Participants will be able to identify vulnerabilities within their own operations, recognize common adversary tactics (such as phishing, exploitation of operational technology, and supply chain attacks), and apply actionable metrics to strengthen security posture. They will leave with practical steps to improve readiness, response, and resilience within their organization.
Who Should Attend
- Operations and facility leaders responsible for critical infrastructure
- Security, risk, and compliance professionals
- IT/OT and cybersecurity teams
- Executive leaders responsible for organizational resilience
- Anyone responsible for protecting systems, assets, or personnel
What You Will Gain
- A clear understanding of how nation-state threats target critical infrastructure
- Insight into common tactics, including cyber intrusion, social engineering, and hybrid attacks
- Awareness of how adversaries exploit operational technology and data systems
- Practical, actionable metrics to assess and improve organizational readiness
- Strategies to reduce vulnerability and strengthen resilience
- Increased confidence in aligning security practices with real-world threats
3 Professional Development Hours (PDH) upon completion
Meet Your Instructor
Annie McIntyre
Director of Security, EverLine
Annie McIntyre is the Director of Security at EverLine. Prior to EverLine, Ms. McIntyre was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Ardua Strategies, Inc., a Texas Corporation, providing solutions for the cyber and operational security issues of energy and infrastructure. Prior to founding Ardua Strategies, Ms. McIntyre was a Principal Member of Technical Staff and Program Manager at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her research areas at Sandia included threats, vulnerabilities, and protection of critical infrastructure systems, and cybersecurity for fossil and renewable energy systems. She managed the Sandia-Forest City Strategic Partnership program for sustainability, and participated in programs such as the Institute for Infrastructure Information Protection (I3P), and National SCADA Test Bed. Ms. McIntyre conducted the first cyber analysis of a renewable system in 2007 for the Department of Energy.
Prior to work in critical infrastructure, Ms. McIntyre worked extensively in the defense sector on information warfare and survivability, serving as IO Laboratory Chief and Information Warfare Lead for Future Combat Systems Assessments at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory. She previously served as New Mexico Regional Manager for Concurrent Technologies Corporation, a defense and energy contractor, and performed systems analysis and engineering in the bioinformatics field for Molecular Informatics, Inc. Throughout her career, she has worked closely with the U.S. Departments of Energy, Homeland Security, and Defense.
Ms. McIntyre conducts extensive work on security policies as they relate to energy and infrastructure. She served as an author for the American Petroleum Institute’s SCADA Security Standard (1164v2), serves on the Advisory Council at the North American Energy Standards Board, and has served as a Senior Fellow at the University of Minnesota’s Technology Leadership Institute. She is a Licensed Private Investigator in the State of Texas.
