If you weren’t one of the 3,000 security leaders who attended the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit 2019 in National Harbor, you missed an important talk.

During her session on “Accelerating Industrial Cyber Security; Protecting Production & Profits”, Suzanne Spaulding, former Under Secretary at the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), shared her suggestions for effectively building resiliency against cyberattacks. Read on to find out what role an asset inventory and automated threat detection play.

As a passionate champion for secure-by-design power grid systems, I’ve been part of WG15, the group defining IEC 62351 standards to enable such systems, for years.

If you’d like to learn about the future of cyber security for electric utilities, I urge you to read this article. It also provides a sneak peek into our related (and groundbreaking!) talk about power system security at Black Hat USA 2019.

How does your company’s perception of ICS risk compare to that of other organizations? Are your security roadblocks similar to others? And, where does your company rank in terms of managing OT/IT convergence?

If you would like to know where you stand, the SANS Institute has just released its 2019 survey containing all the answers. Let’s look at what it says about these common ICS issues.