Demos Andreou

Demos has over 38 years of experience, the last 25 in the electric utility industry. His current position at Patterson & Dewar involves evaluation, design, deployment, test, and commissioning of smart grid technologies, as well as performing OT cyber security assessments, and remediation. Demos hold several cybersecurity certifications.  Demos have spent 30 years as a field communication engineer, working on resolving complex communication and automation problems, designing testing, securing, and commissioning SCADA systems. He has extensive experience in Cybersecurity. He consulted for organizations in Financial, Government, Utilities and Telecom sectors. His technical expertise includes compliance, ethical hacking/penetration testing of industrial control systems and networks, application security, reverse engineering embedded controllers, networking protocols and scripting languages. He has written articles and presented at several industry conferences on SCADA implementation and design, communication protocols, cybersecurity best practices, securing legacy devices, implementations and real-world comprehensive field verification as it applies to critical infrastructure control systems.