Practitioners working in and supporting critical infrastructures around the world are seeing increasing regulations, reports of adversarial targeting, and business demands for increased connectivity to process data. Support teams need to work together now more than ever to enable the business and defend essential systems. While there are guiding principles for each organization to consider in project prioritization and program implementation approaches, there is no one “right” way for all organizations, no silver bullet device or software solution to procure. This talk will highlight three areas for attendees to consider as they examine the challenges within their organization and work to shape their best path forward:

• Drivers and constraints around IT and OT complimentary organizational and technology design (It’s not all just ‘T’),
• Immediate, near term, and future capital project and O&M planning time horizon considerations (Risk lens and balancing act),
• Necessity of operationalizing cybersecurity capabilities to ensure system reliability, integrity, and safety (using your information, to inform operators).