Exploring the IT/OT Incentive Gap

Jon Holzbauer writes about how IT and OT organizations can butt heads over the incentives that drive decision-making and how they shape priorities in protecting critical systems.

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IT cybersecurity teams inheriting operational technology security and cyber-physical systems protection programs often come into these situations with competing incentives. This dynamic creates gaps in protecting OT and CPS that must be assessed and addressed.

Industrial cybersecurity expert Danielle Jablanski reflects on market shifts around operational technology (OT) and industrial control systems (ICS) cybersecurity and predicts a newfound emphasis and approach to security metrics in 2026.

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Nexus Reflections and Predictions: Danielle Jablanski

Danielle Jablanski

Compensating controls are often the only cybersecurity options available to offset risk in operational technology environments still supporting legacy technology or end-of-life industrial control systems or field devices.

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Nexus Reflections and Predictions: Don C. Weber

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Nexus Reflections and Predictions: Pedro Umbelino

Connected process control technologies force asset owners to change their perceptions of risk, cyber resilience, and operational resilience.

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Nexus Reflections and Predictions: Steven Sim

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Jay C. Catherine, a security architect for a major retailer, joins the Nexus Podcast to discuss best practices for logistics cybersecurity within the retail space. This includes securing not only distribution, but also the operational technology involved in these manufacturing processes.

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Nexus Podcast: Jay Catherine on Securing Logistics, OT in Retail

On this episode of the Nexus Podcast, Greg Garcia, Executive Director of The Health Sector Coordinating Council Cybersecurity Working Group, discusses the Sector Mapping and Risk Toolkit (SMART). SMART contains a set of 17 templates that enable healthcare organizations to map and visualize workflows, identify areas of risk, and where mitigations are most desperately needed.

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Nexus Podcast: Greg Garcia on the Sector Mapping and Risk Toolkit for Healthcare

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Nexus Podcast: Christopher Frenz on Evidence-Based Security

Adm. Michael S. Rogers, USN (Ret.) joins the Nexus podcast to discuss the Biden administration's National Cybersecurity Strategy, and its themes of cyber resilience and critical infrastructure protection.

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Nexus Podcast: Adm. Michael Rogers on Deterrence in Cyberspace

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Leandro Ribeiro, Security Manager of Hospital Sírio Libanês, explains how patient care is intrinsically linked to protecting all the medical devices and equipment used in their treatment. Ensuring the security of all associated processes, and preventing vulnerabilities that could compromise patient integrity and safety are the key.

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Gustavo Berber, OT Cybersecurity Manager for Sigma, discusses the importance of providing flexible deployment options that consolidate multiple solutions, such as OT remote access or OT vulnerability management, into a single, comprehensive platform that allows for a low total cost of ownership.

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Jose Emmanuel Galeana, OT Cybersecurity Manager for Cemex, a large building materials company in Mexico, discusses the importance of a comprehensive, up-to-date, centralized inventory of all OT assets in an industrial environment, and why it’s integral to effective asset management.

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José Emmanuel Galeana Sobre la Ciber Resiliencia en la Industria de Materiales de Construcción

Arturo Montiel, IoT/OT Global Solution Architect, with Xignux, talks about why increasing connectivity for previously air-gapped assets in manufacturing could benefit plant managers. Each new asset, however, also creates a potential entry point for attackers, so threats must be detected as early as possible.

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Arturo Montiel Sobre la Resiliencia Cibernética en la Manufactura

David Ruzicka, OT Security Director at Clarios, a top manufacturing organization, explains why it’s important for enterprises integrating and converging IT and OT to involve engineers and asset operators in cybersecurity strategy. Ruzicka explains the advantages engineers can introduce into this integration, and how a collaborative approach secures the shop floor and brings value to the business.

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David Ruzicka on Bridging the Gap Between Engineers and Security

Leandro Ribeiro, Security Manager of Hospital Sírio Libanês, explains how patient care is intrinsically linked to protecting all the medical devices and equipment used in their treatment. Ensuring the security of all associated processes, and preventing vulnerabilities that could compromise patient integrity and safety are the key.

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Leandro Ribeiro Sobre Segurança de Dispositivos Médicos e Cuidado com o Paciente

Leandro Ribeiro, Security Manager of Hospital Sírio Libanês, explains how patient care is intrinsically linked to protecting all the medical devices and…

Gustavo Berber, OT Cybersecurity Manager for Sigma, discusses the importance of providing flexible deployment options that consolidate multiple solutions, such as OT remote access or OT vulnerability management, into a single, comprehensive platform that allows for a low total cost of ownership.

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Food & Beverage

Cyber Resilience

Gustavo Berber sobre la Ciber Resiliencia en la Industria de Alimentos y Bebidas

Gustavo Berber, OT Cybersecurity Manager for Sigma, discusses the importance of providing flexible deployment options that consolidate multiple solutions,…

Jose Emmanuel Galeana, OT Cybersecurity Manager for Cemex, a large building materials company in Mexico, discusses the importance of a comprehensive, up-to-date, centralized inventory of all OT assets in an industrial environment, and why it’s integral to effective asset management.

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Operational Resilience

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José Emmanuel Galeana Sobre la Ciber Resiliencia en la Industria de Materiales de Construcción

Jose Emmanuel Galeana, OT Cybersecurity Manager for Cemex, a large building materials company in Mexico, discusses the importance of a comprehensive,…

Arturo Montiel, IoT/OT Global Solution Architect, with Xignux, talks about why increasing connectivity for previously air-gapped assets in manufacturing could benefit plant managers. Each new asset, however, also creates a potential entry point for attackers, so threats must be detected as early as possible.

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Arturo Montiel Sobre la Resiliencia Cibernética en la Manufactura

Arturo Montiel, IoT/OT Global Solution Architect, with Xignux, talks about why increasing connectivity for previously air-gapped assets in manufacturing could…

David Ruzicka, OT Security Director at Clarios, a top manufacturing organization, explains why it’s important for enterprises integrating and converging IT and OT to involve engineers and asset operators in cybersecurity strategy. Ruzicka explains the advantages engineers can introduce into this integration, and how a collaborative approach secures the shop floor and brings value to the business.

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David Ruzicka on Bridging the Gap Between Engineers and Security

David Ruzicka, OT Security Director at Clarios, a top manufacturing organization, explains why it’s important for enterprises integrating and converging IT and…

The Department of Defense has issued comprehensive guidance requiring all organizational units to implement zero-trust security principles across operational technology (OT) systems, marking a fundamental shift in how the military secures critical infrastructure from power grids to manufacturing control systems.

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Pentagon Mandates Zero Trust Security Framework for Operational Technology Environments

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IT cybersecurity teams inheriting operational technology security and cyber-physical systems protection programs often come into these situations with competing incentives. This dynamic creates gaps in protecting OT and CPS that must be assessed and addressed.

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Competing Incentives Create IT/OT Security Gaps

Connected process control technologies force asset owners to change their perceptions of risk, cyber resilience, and operational resilience.

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Nexus Reflections and Predictions: Steven Sim

ASL Roma 1, a public health provider in Rome, has distinguished itself in the global healthcare landscape over the past two years by implementing advanced cybersecurity strategies, moving toward a hyper convergent security model, the so-called HyperSOC, in response to the growing cyber attacks in the global healthcare sector.

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Nexus Reflections and Predictions: Stefano Scaramuzzino

Stefano Scaramuzzino

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