12 May 2025 | A Year In OT Security
Your IT network has been compromised. Your OT network seems to be working fine, but you’re worried that the compromise will spread to OT. What do you do? Colonial Pipeline faced this situation in 2021 when ransomware infected their IT network. Their response? Shut...
5 May 2025 | A Year In OT Security
The most frequent category of a cyber attack caused outage in OT and Operations, is ransomware infecting systems on the IT network, also called the corporate or enterprise network. Stated another way, most cyber incidents causing an outage in Operations never reach...
28 Apr 2025 | A Year In OT Security
Common complaint in OT security: the company won’t spend money on OT security. This week you begin to experience the joy of getting funding for your OT cyber risk reduction project. Let’s review this month’s activities: You’ve identified and understood the safety and...
21 Apr 2025 | A Year In OT Security
If any of your failure scenarios from last week required isolating the safety and protection devices and systems from OT, then this week you will design your solution. Note: Even if you don’t need to isolate your safety and protection you should read this section. The...
14 Apr 2025 | A Year In OT Security
Last week you identified failure scenarios that could cause a high consequence event when OT is compromised. This week’s task is simple and important. For each failure scenario from Week 15, identify a solution that would prevent the high consequence event if OT were...
