Resilience Is More Than A Synonym For Security
The World Economic Forum (WEF) recently published Cyber Resilience in the Oil and Gas Industry: Playbook for Boards and Corporate Officers. This is timely coming weeks after the Colonial Pipeline incident, which was a resilience failure not an OT security failure....
ICS Detection Market Update – Q2 2021
See previous analysis on my ICS Detection Market page. We Have A Winner The ICS Detection Market is the clear ICS security market winner of 2021 to date. Even before the Colonial Pipeline incident it was clear that well funded and relentless marketing by vendors in...
3 Incident Response Playbooks for OT
If you will forgive yet another article inspired by the Colonial Pipeline incident … it does represent the oldest of the three must have OT Incident Response Playbooks. Playbook 1 – Enterprise Network Compromised Pending additional details (this is written...
The Industrial Edge, Cloud Services, and Purdue Level 1 Devices
The Industrial Edge can be understood through an analogy of the different types and capabilities of a Purdue Reference Model Level 1 device. I’ll use the AWS terminology for this article, and it could be written around Azure and other mature in concept cloud...
Requiring SBOMs And Their Impact On OT
Hope, 1 Step Backwards, and Business Models Hope The concept and benefits of a software bill of materials (SBOM) is simple to understand. A SBOM is a list of all software in an application or cyber asset. Vendors need to create and maintain a SBOM to have any...
Sprinting To Secure The US Power Grid
Last week a Bloomberg article covered the Biden Administration’s plan for a 100-day sprint to secure the power grid. I’ll comment on the three focus areas the article lays out and more broadly on 100-day efforts. Monitoring The Grid And Sending Data To The...
Book Review: This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends by Nicole Perlroth
Short Review This is a book that an ICS security professional should give to friends and family to read so they know why they do what they do. Nicole guides the lay person through her compelling journey to understand the 0day market and its impact on the security of...
How Do We Solve The OT Cybersecurity Staffing Challenges?
Three answers. 1. Women Women represent 51% of the population and 57% of the college graduates in the US. They comprise less than 10% of the OT Security workforce. Solving the problem could be as simple as adding women to the OT Security workforce until they...