ICS Security Company Valuation and Value Investing
Frank, non-flattering admission … I am terrible at determining how much an ICS security company is worth, it’s valuation. While I believe that I can analyze the market, identify the product and service trends, evaluate company strategies, and identify the...Women In ICS Security
Kelly Jackson Higgins of Dark Reading joins Dale Peterson to co-host this episode of the Unsolicited Response Show. The topic is Women In ICS Security, and all the guests are Women In ICS Security: – Kristin Demoranville – MJ Emanuel – Najo Ifield...
My Recollection of the F**g Salmon Dinner
Chapter 2 of Nicole Perlroth’s book This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends is all about S4x13 and particularly about a dinner I hosted that she called The F**king Salmon dinner. We were all in Miami to attend the same bizarre conference – an annual...
Consequence and INL’s CCE
The long awaited detail of INL’s Consequence-driven, Cyber-informed Engineering (CCE) methodology is now available in the Andy Bochman / Sarah Freemen book Countering Cyber Sabotage. I had the opportunity to interview the authors for an hour in this week’s...
An Operator Turing Test
Proposal: A small group in the ICS world develop a test to determine if a “machine” can be trained from only historian data to perform as good (indistinguishable) or better than a representative Operator. In 1950 Alan Turing wrote an article on what...
Are Your ICS Security Patching Plans Realistic?
An interesting and potentially important technical paper was published near the year end holidays and didn’t get the attention it deserved: Vulnerability Forecasting: In Theory and Practice by Éireann Leverett, Matilda Rhode and Adam Wedgbury of...
How To Be An OT Visionary
It really is quite simple to be an OT Visionary. Look at what is happening and working in IT / the enterprisePredict that this same technology and approach will be used in OTBe prepared to be called crazy and told it will never work in OT / ICSFive years later have it...