Maturing Past Maturity-Based To Risk-Based
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My article from 2 March 2021. I recently stumbled upon a McKinsey article from October 2019 that more elegantly, in McKinsey speak, made the argument against "cyber hygiene" than I do.
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VC's View Of The ICS Security Market
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This was a very revealing panel on how the VC world is viewing the ICS security space. Many strong statements and feelings about where we are and what the future will be.
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ICS Security Company Valuation and Value Investing
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Dale's weekly article published on 23 Feb 2022. He dives into why it is so difficult to value these companies, and the disconnect between any value investing analysis and the actual, what someone will pay, market valuation.
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Fiction Book Review: Total Power
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Total Power by Kyle Mills is a story about a successful cyber/physical attack on the US electric grid, the impact of a prolonged outage, and the effort to bring the power back and catch the bad guys. It pulled some key facts out of the mountain of grid-hacking FUD so that it was much more plausible than a typical work of fiction.
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Women In ICS Security
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Kelly Jackson Higgins of Dark Reading joins Dale Peterson to co-host this episode of the Unsolicited Response Show. All of the guests are Women In ICS Security:
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My Recollection of the F**g Salmon Dinner
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Chapter 2 of Nicole Perlroth's new book was a dinner at S4x13 that I hosted. This article is my recollection of that dinner.
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Bayshore Networks' CEO Kevin Senator
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The ICS security product vendors tend to focus on a product segment, firewall, data-diode, detection, ..., Bayshore Networks is unique in that they have the closest thing to a full line of ICS security products. This is being grown further with their recent acquisition of GE's OpShield technology.
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Countering Cyber Sabotage - CCE
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Dale Peterson interviews authors Andrew Bochman and Sarah Freemen of Idaho National Laboratory (INL) about their just published book Countering Cyber Sabotage - Introducing Consequence-driven, Cyber-informed Engineering (CCE).
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Operator Turing Test / Consequence & INL's CCE
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I missed recording my weekly article last week so this episode includes the articles from Jan 28th and Feb 4th.
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An Interview With Eddie Habibi of PAS
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One of my favorite interviews is with founders who have persevered to build companies over decades. This one is with Eddie Habibi, the founder of PAS.
info_outlineThe buzzwords "cyber hygiene" is being said and written by many of the guru's in the ICS security community. It's hard to argue that basic hygiene is bad, but what is and isn't cyber hygiene?
I recorded a 3-person pod with Marty Edwards of the Automation Federation and Michael Toecker of Context Industrial Security. They were selected because they used the term, and all three of us had different views on what cyber hygiene means and the usefulness of the term. For example is applying security patches cyber hygiene? Is there a difference between cyber hygiene and cyber maintenance.
Amazingly, for three experienced and opinionated people, we all ended up changing our viewpoint and reached a basic agreement. Take a listen and see if you agree with where we ended up.
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This episode was sponsored by CyberX. Founded by military cyber experts with nation-state expertise defending critical infrastructure, CyberX has developed an end-to-end platform for continuous ICS threat monitoring and risk mitigation.
Check out the CyberX Global ICS and IIoT Risk Report and my podcast from last year on the report with Phil Neray.