Trust No Signal - Exploiting Digital Energy at Level 0

No packets. No exploits. Just physics. Newton never signed off on your threat model. Tesla would have exploited it. This presentation discusses cyber-physics transduction attacks where electromagnetic fields, acoustic resonance, and power supply noise can be chained to create a false digital reality—without touching a single line of code, firmware, or network protocol. These physics-originating, cross-domain attacks operate at the foundational Purdue Level 0, weaponizing "digital energy" to manipulate the flow from atoms to bits. By compromising the physics of the sensing or actuator device, an adversary can create malicious cyber effects from spoofed telemetry to catastrophic mechanical failure while completely bypassing Zero Trust, encryption, and traditional threat models. It is time to secure the physics.

Bio

Paul is a Cyber SME at nou Systems, Inc. His expertise includes space systems, service provider, and ICS/SCADA network infrastructure attacks and defenses, as well as large complex network design and implementation. He has a BS in Math\Computer Science, a MS in Space Systems, a MS in Systems Management, a MS in Information Assurance and Security and a MS in Computer Information Systems. In addition, he holds numerous industry network and security certifications.

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