Podcast: ATT&CK For ICS Evaluations

Podcast: ATT&CK For ICS Evaluations

Detecting Triton Type Attacks In this episode I talk with Otis Alexander of MITRE about ATT&CK for ICS Evaluations. We begin with a discussion on ATT&CK and the ICS version of ATT&CK. If you are familiar with this, skip to 17:09 where we begin our...
Podcast: Splunk’s OT Security Add-On

Podcast: Splunk’s OT Security Add-On

Most of the OT Detection and Asset Management solutions have developed ‘integrations’ with SIEMs, with Splunk and QRadar being the most common. I put integrations in quotes because they did little more than push alerts and events to the SIEMs with little...
Podcast: What OT Can Learn From IT

Podcast: What OT Can Learn From IT

We hear it all the time. OT is different than IT, and IT doesn’t understand OT. People argue about IT/OT convergence. In all these discussions I believe two things are true. OT doesn’t really understand IT, and the similar, but not identical, requirements...

Podcast: P.W. Singer – Author of Burn In

P.W. Singer and August Cole recently published their second work of fiction – Burn In: A Novel About The Real Robotic Revolution. While it is a fiction, it uses over 300 examples of what might happen as robotics and revolution change the world over the next two decades.

Why Did Microsoft Acquire CyberX?

Why Did Microsoft Acquire CyberX?

The rumors started in February and became reality this week. Microsoft acquired CyberX. The price is not a material event for Microsoft. It will never be officially released. A recent article claimed the price was $165M, and I predicted it would be...
Building & Using Digital Twins

Building & Using Digital Twins

An Interview with Mike Aylott of KBC There are many articles on digital twins that describe what they are and how they can help with predictive maintenance, efficiency studies, and other tasks of increasing interest and value. On the security side digital twins...
Panama Canal: 3 Lessons

Panama Canal: 3 Lessons

I just finished David McCullough’s book on the building of the Panama Canal. At 700-pages it’s a bit of a slog so I can’t recommend it, and yet there were so many fascinating stories and details. Here are my top three. Amazing Early Example Of A...