Community
Giving back to the cybersecurity community.
The conference we sponsor, our cybersecurity team's talks and board service, and the Marquette University students we teach. MOCS 2026 brought 100+ attendees across 12 sessions, 30+ organizations and 7 states.
Conferences we sponsor
Midwest OT Cybersecurity Summit
Malkan Solutions was a title sponsor of MOCS 2026, alongside AWS, IBM Consulting and the Northwestern Mutual Data Science Institute. The summit is hosted by Marquette University with Security For the Folks.
Save the date
MOCS 2027
The next Midwest OT Cybersecurity Summit returns to Marquette University. Speakers, hands-on labs, panels and career tracks are being lined up now — stay tuned.
- One-day OT cybersecurity summit at Marquette University's AMU
- Government, manufacturer, academic, and community speakers
- Hands-on labs, executive panels, breakout sessions, and career tracks
- Community-first conference for people securing critical infrastructure
- 100+
- Attendees
- 12
- Sessions
- 30+
- Orgs
- 7
- States
Presentations
Talks by our cybersecurity team
Our team speaks to practitioners, manufacturers and students about securing operational technology and the machines that build things.
June 4, 2026
Industry standards on Cybersecurity for Machines making Machines
GRASSr00tz · Appleton, Wisconsin
IEC 62443 in practical terms for machine builders, and the requirements that matter on the plant floor.
GRASSr00tz speakersJune 2, 2026
GRC & AI: Lessons from the Frontline of Certifying OT Manufacturers
The Official Cybersecurity Summit · Milwaukee
Governance, risk, compliance and AI, drawn from preparing OT manufacturers for certification.
April 24, 2026
Executive panel
MOCS 2026 · Marquette University
OT cybersecurity leadership, on stage with Marquette University, IBM Consulting and Johnson Controls.
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Community engagement
Board service
Our team gives its time to the groups that grow Wisconsin's security community.
Board member
Security for the Folks
A grassroots cybersecurity movement in Wisconsin, co-host of MOCS with Marquette University, and the think tank behind the projects in Marquette's Ethical Hacking class.
Board Director
InfraGard Wisconsin Members Alliance
The Wisconsin chapter of InfraGard, the partnership between the FBI and the private sector that protects critical infrastructure.
InfraGard Wisconsin
Teaching
Teaching the next generation of cybersecurity
Our cybersecurity team teaches as adjunct faculty at Marquette University, preparing students to defend the systems they will one day run.
COSC 3840
Ethical Hacking
Marquette students work in teams to find vulnerabilities, debate technology issues and think through where cybersecurity is heading.
Real-world projects
Built with Security for the Folks
Class projects are inspired by real-world cases from Security for the Folks, so students practise on the kind of problem they will meet at work.
From the field
Taught by practitioners
The class is taught from careers of hands-on security work at GE Healthcare, Rockwell Automation and Malkan Solutions.