SEC: Incentives and Outcomes
Show me the incentive; I’ll show you the outcome. Charlie Munger The SEC requirement for US public companies to disclose, in an 8K form, any cyber attacks that will have a material impact on the business went into effect in November, 2023. Unsurprisingly this has led...
Proposed Government Metric – Internet Exposed OT
This is third in a series of suggested metrics governments could use to measure OT security posture, incidents, and risk … something desperately needed and consistently avoided. Metric 1: Impacted People Days Metric 2: Leading Indicator Metrics Metric 3:...
Leading Indicator Metrics (Inspired by API RP 754)
Part 1 of this article is from my S4x24 Keynote: Believe!. Part 2 is the suggested related metrics for the US and other governments. Are some of you having trouble with Total Recordable Incident Rate? Or the SEC material incident rate? Or these outage pie charts. I...
US Government Cybersecurity Performance: Activity – Success, Achievement – Who Knows?
Last week continued the deluge of documents and activity from the US Government on the nation’s cybersecurity. The two most important for OT security were the 2024 Report On The Cybersecurity Posture Of The United States and the National Cybersecurity Strategy...
RSA Conference: OT Vs. IT Vs. Convergence
One of the first articles or presentations those new to OT generate is how OT is different from IT. Like other uses of T, there are tasks, goals and constraints that are different in OT than the employee desktop, application, server and infrastructure environment that...
Proposed Government Metric – Impacted People Days
This is the first in a series of articles on proposed government metrics (US and other) to measure the consequence of critical infrastructure OT cyber incidents. Impacted People Days – – The number of people impacted by an OT cyber incident multiplied by...Europe, Regulation and AI with Patrick Miller
Click To Subscribe Show Notes Patrick Miller has OT cybersecurity experience as an asset owner, PacificCorp. As a regulator and one of the first NERC CIP auditors with WECC. As a community organizer creating and leading EnergySec and the BeerISAC. And as an...
Tom Alrich Book Interview: Introduction To SBOM And VEX
Click To Subscribe Show Notes Tom Alrich is the author of the new book Introduction To SBOM And VEX. Host Dale Peterson and Tom discuss: Who Tom wrote the book for. Why the book had so much content prefaced by “in the author’s opinion” and “the author believes”. Early...