5 Dec 2018 | 2018, Strategy
It’s How Do We Best Build OT Teams & Programs My last post, Best Raw Material for an Operations Technology (OT) Team, received many comments on LinkedIn. A lot of the discussion devolved into the old IT v. OT discussion, partially due to my flippantly...
27 Nov 2018 | 2018, Strategy
One of the topics we tackled in a panel at the Asia ICS Cyber Security Conference last week in Singapore was how best to grow the Operations Technology (OT) Security workforce. Early in his conference introduction Dan Ehrenreich showed a diagram similar to above with...
8 Nov 2018 | 2018, Podcast
In this Unsolicited Response episode I interview Rob Lee of Dragos and Rob Smith of INL on a Department of Energy funded program called Neighborhood Keeper. The program attempts to provide threat detection and intelligence in an easy and affordable way to small and...
29 Oct 2018 | 2018, Detect
I’ve analyzed and made a number of predictions on the ICS Detection market over the past two years. The biggest surprise to me over the last six months has been speed of the market. The winners and losers are being largely determined in 2018 and will result in...
17 Oct 2018 | 2018, Podcast
I’m trying something a bit different in this short 22 minute episode. I rant about two flawed ICS mantras that are gaining traction and detract from useful discussions, and there is an overview of the S4x19 agenda and OnRamp training....
10 Oct 2018 | 2018, Strategy
There have been many events and data points that show even people knowledgeable in ICS and security are having difficulty communicating together because we have different views and experiences on what an ICS is. The latest example is Kaspersky’s Threat Landscape...
27 Sep 2018 | 2018, Podcast
In this episode I speak with Ralph Langner of Langner Communications about the ICS Product Security Market. Ralph is famous for his work on Stuxnet, and he has done a lot of great work before and after Stuxnet. For the last two years he has set aside his decades of...
26 Sep 2018 | 2018, Strategy
Thinking Out Loud … The ICS Detection market is new and highly competitive as covered in an early article. A question as interesting as who will be the winners in this market, is what the composition and capabilities of the winning solutions will be? The diagram...
13 Sep 2018 | 2018, Podcast
Blake Sobczak, a reporter for Energy & Environment News, has been on fire lately with his coverage of electric sector cybersecurity. It seems like I’m consistently retweeting his stories and putting them into my Friday News & Notes email (are you...
31 Jul 2018 | 2018, Strategy
I like to call ICS security legend Joe Weiss the Paul Revere of the community. In the five years after the Sept 11th attacks, he was the most effective advocate and loudly carried the message that we have a huge risk that was not being addressed. He didn’t stop...
