More OT Professionals Needed
(and maybe fewer OT Security Pro’s than originally thought) Kelly Shortridge gave a great keynote on DevOps coming to the OT world at S4x20. I originally asked Kelly to give a talk on DevSecOps. She pushed back on the use of that term because security...
Sorry, Security Is A Cost
After a recent virtual keynote I was asked a perennial hopeful question: How we can make cybersecurity a source of revenue rather than a cost? The short answer for an OT asset owner is, you can’t. The motivation is understandable. Businesses and their executives...
Cyber Insurance, One (Temporary) Step Backwards
I still do a bit of ICS security consulting for asset owners in between S4, speaking at events, and the Unsolicited Response show. This consulting typically requires a $1M Professional Liability Insurance policy. It’s renewal time, and below are two new...
Is IT/OT Convergence’s Momentum Unstoppable?
My interview last week with Nozomi Networks CEO Edgard Capdevielle dug deep into the OT visibility and detection market today and more importantly where it was heading in the next 1-3 years. Lots of candor and interesting comments from Edgard, and Edgard’s thoughts of...
Calamity or Shoulder Shrug
You Must Understand Your Organization’s Risk Management Do you want support and funding for your ICS security initiatives? Then you need to understand what executives view as high, unacceptable consequences that believably could be caused by a cyber or...
Universities Beginning To Offer ICS Security Courses and Degree Programs – More Needed
The number of jobs in the ICS Security category is growing quickly. Asset owners, ICS and ICS security vendors, integrators, consulting firms, and governments are all trying to hire ICS security talent from a limited talent pool. The most common solution to grow ICS...
Easy, Moderate and Hard SBOM Wins
Easy Win – Procurement A simple request to inspect Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) artifacts, such as the threat model and fuzz testing plan and results, will tell you if the SDL is more than a dream put down on paper. (In the early 2010’s it was more...
Evaluating The ICS ATT&CK Evaluations
Last week the MITRE Engenuity team released the results from their first ATT&CK Evaluations for ICS. I spent hours looking at the MITRE published results and the evaluated vendors’ write ups of the results. It was a professionally executed and realistic...