Gartner’s OT Visibility Magic Quadrant
Advisory services vendor Gartner put out their magic quadrant for “CPS Protection Platforms” on February 12th. (Right in the middle of S4x25, coincidence?) Having covered this market since 2016, I have a few things to say about their magic quadrant and...Week 10: Understand What Success Means In Your Company
It’s critical to know what your organization is trying to achieve and how success is measured if you are going to meaningfully contribute to cyber risk management decisions. This week’s task is to identify your organization’s most important 3 to 5 key mission...March: Know Your Company
Beginning in March we shift for the rest of this book from a focus on your career to a focus on your company’s OT security and cyber risk management program. A common mistake is to begin by selecting and deploying security controls. You find a standard or...
S4x25 Keynote: Your Value As An OT Security Professional
Here’s the text version of my S4x25 keynote delivered on Feb 12th. Of course you don’t get the seesaw that you have in the video. What are you worth? Not as a person. As an OT security professional. What’s your value? How much more is your value than a...Week 9: Identify And Plan Your Career Growth Area
One last, but not least, task to complete your S4 month is to plan what area you will focus your career growth on over the next year. Hopefully your S4x25 experience and the tasks over the past two weeks have given you some insight on what both will inspire you and...
The Impact Of US Government OT Security Firings
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Time For Action, We Have Plenty Of Advice
Seth Godin manages to put a lot of wisdom in his short daily blogs. This one hit me last week (key excerpt below). Generally, the advice isn’t really the hard part. There’s endless good advice just a click away. … We might not need better advice. We might simply...
Introduction Chapter From My New Book
This chapter from the book describes what it is, how to use it, and a bit of how I came to write it. I started reading a daily calendar book in 2019 and have continued every year since. My two favorites are The Daily Stoic and The Daily Drucker. Calendar books provide...