7 Apr 2025 | A Year In OT Security
This week’s task builds on the information collected in the previous five weeks and provides a key output for your OT security program. It identifies the high consequence events that could be caused by a cyber incident if an attacker gains access to and control of OT....
1 Apr 2025 | A Year In OT Security
The tasks in April are the most important, and the most rarely done, tasks in OT security and cyber risk management. This should be clearer after March when you learned about your company and its risk management program. In a perfect world, systems would work 100% of...
31 Mar 2025 | A Year In OT Security
Last week you identified the high consequence events related to the industrial process being monitored and controlled in OT. This week you learn what is in place to prevent these high consequence events. The engineers who designed the process are again your primary...
24 Mar 2025 | A Year In OT Security
Many industrial processes can go bad in ways that cause catastrophic events. Loss of life. Severe property damage. Environmental disasters. If something gets too hot, spins too fast, mixes with the wrong chemicals, vibrates too much … BOOM! Your task this week is to...
17 Mar 2025 | A Year In OT Security
This week’s task requires a discussion with the Finance department. Cybersecurity people in OT and IT often overestimate the financial impact of an outage. In one way, this is a good thing. It means the individual and team will work hard to avoid an outage because...
