When the Factory Floor Meets the Boardroom
Why OT risk is now enterprise risk — and the five questions every board should be able to answer. A view from Marc Samson as presented during CyberSec Europe 2026 in Brussels.
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AI Didn't Break Defense in Depth. It Made It the Only Thing That Still Works.
Five reasons layered security matters more in industrial environments now than it did five years ago. Blog post written by Marc Samson, Trusted Partner of Secudea | Independent Consultant via Advisec
Becoming an OT Security Specialist today
Becoming an OT security specialist still means bridging cybersecurity and industrial operations. What has changed is that the field is now more mature, with clearer training paths, stronger standards such as IEC 62443, …
Why vendors should validate themselves before the customer does
Many vendors already apply good cybersecurity practices, but often in an ad hoc manner. By using vendor validation services internally, they can align their terms and conditions with reality, formalize existing practice…
IEC62443, NIS2 and security testing - a happy marriage?
When the NIS2 EU Directive came into effect, I wondered what the implications would be for security testing in industrial environments. After all, a large part of the NIS2 directive focuses on supply chain and network s…
Security testing & your supply chain
Within NIS2, one of the items to take into account in reaching compliance, is Supply Chain security.First of all of course is to make sure you know your risks through performing risks assessments, a tool to do so can be…
Practical side of FAT/SAT testing
While listening to one of the talks at the ISC-CPH conference back in 2022, I realized that nobody is talking about the practical side of performing cyber security tests in a FAT/SAT testing approach. It is not only per…
ISC-CPH November 2024
This year it was the 3rd time visiting the ISC-CPH conference for me, one of the better ICS focused security conferences within Europe. This year again as attendee compared to last year being a presenter (Last year's ta…
ISC-CPH November 2024 - Day 1
Overview of ISC-CPH November 2024 - Day 1... Currently there are a lot of good developments within OT Security, on better and more useful than the other, yet this is up to you to decide what is bes…
ISC-CPH November 2024 - Day 2
Overview of ISC-CPH November 2024 - Day 2 A good network monitoring will be able to verify if the network segmentation is done pr…