Hack the Capitol’s panels offered some valuable perspective on infrastructure protection, supply chain security, and public-private partnetship. The discussions are particularly interesting in the light of recent US Federal undertakings to address cybersecurity.
Defending forward in industrial control systems.
Jamil Jaffer, Executive Director of the National Security Institute, led discussion with David Weinstein, Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company, Marie O’Neill Sciarrone, CEO of Tribal Tech, and Vishaal Hariprasad, CEO of Resilience, about developments in the Operational Technology (OT) space, whether Defend Forward (DF) makes sense there, and what industrial control system (ICS) operators need from the country’s leadership.
The panelists noted a trend towards IT-OT “convergence” that brings new vulnerabilities and risks. Once isolated ICSs are increasingly connected across the OT and IT environments. Many even have a public-facing Internet connection. The pandemic accelerated the drift towards remote access, which assists business interests like real-time status updates, but as Sciarrone pointed out, documented ICS attacks date back to the 80’s. Since we’ve…
