10 Nov 2025 | A Year In OT Security
Does your detection work? Will it identify aspects of a cyber attack as designed? Will it present the events / alerts / information to the appropriate role? Does that role understand their Call Outs? This week you will test each detection source and each Call Out...
3 Nov 2025 | A Year In OT Security
Call outs are common in Operations. If this happens, contact this person, take this action, watch this reading, order this maintenance, … Your task this week is to create OT detection call outs, the beginning of response. These call outs are actions assigned to roles....
27 Oct 2025 | A Year In OT Security
In Week 42 you decided what detection sources you will monitor and analyze. Now you need to make it happen. Develop and start implementing a plan to monitor and analyze each OT detection information source above the line in Week 42. The task this week is to, at...
20 Oct 2025 | A Year In OT Security
Security logs are essential in incident response and after incident investigations. Do you know: What OT security related logs you have? where they are? where they’re archived? who is responsible for the log? would the log still be available after a cyber incident? ...
13 Oct 2025 | A Year In OT Security
This week’s task is simple. Draw a line on the prioritized list of OT detection information sources you created last week. Everything above the line you are committed to monitoring, analyzing, and acting on alerts. Everything below the line is a future detection...
6 Oct 2025 | A Year In OT Security
Before you go out and spend a lot of resources to purchase, deploy, and run a sophisticated OT cyber detection system, ask yourself if you are taking advantage of existing, higher fidelity detection sources. This week’s task is to use interview and brainstorming...
