It’s Not OT v. IT

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...
Best Raw Material for an OT Security Team

Best Raw Material for an OT Security Team

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...

Podcast: Neighborhood Keeper for SMB Asset Owners

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...

ICS Detection Market: Moving Fast & Facing Challenges

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...

Flawed ICS Mantras

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....
ICS Product Categories and Composition

ICS Product Categories and Composition

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...