I've had the chance to interview the last three leaders of DHS's OT security efforts at S4 (only missing out on Seán Paul McGurk). For good or bad, the message has been consistent. Emphasis on information sharing, public / private partnership, new .gov organizational...

A large part of OT Security marketing is based around anecdotes. Some anecdotes are real. This small water utility was hacked and a tank overflowed. This manufacturer had ransomware and had to shut down certain factory operations for three days. This rail system was...

Frenos is hot. They won the Datatribe Challenge, and then raised $3.88M in a seed round led by Datatribe. They got Rob Lee on their Advisory Board. And the founders have hired some well known talent in the space such as Tony Turner and Vivek Ponnada. There hasn't been...

Love this comment from Bryan Owen on one of my posts. Discovering ICS vulns is so yesterday, discovering implants is the new, new thing. In observation, there needs to be more emphasis and coverage on discovered implants... otherwise sponsors of defensive programs are...

OT Security needs metrics. I originally wrote more metrics, but we have almost no metrics. We includes asset owners, governments, vendors, industry groups, ... We shouldn't be funding anything that doesn't include a hypothesis and a metric that will provide data that...

You just discovered OT. Maybe you're in IT and got a tour of your company's factory or mill. Maybe you went down a rabbit hole on some site or social media and learned about it. You want to share this world, and more often than not it leads to an article on how OT is...

All Sides Accept Some Level Of Compromise Of Critical Infrastructure For Reconnaissance and Pre-Positioning If you want to understand US government cyber strategy, offense and defense, you need to master Cyber Persistence Theory. The US would argue they didn't invent...

Gresham's law is a monetary principle stating that "bad money drives out good". For example, if there are two forms of commodity money in circulation, which are accepted by law as having similar face value, the more valuable commodity will gradually disappear from...

Gresham's law is a monetary principle stating that "bad money drives out good". For example, if there are two forms of commodity money in circulation, which are accepted by law as having similar face value, the more valuable commodity will...

There were 12 organizations at the OT Security Training Roundup at S4x25. The entry bar was low. Buy a ticket and have an OT security training course to promote. The most noteworthy entrant was the launch of CambiOS Academy. The founders behind CambiOS Academy are a...