Critical infrastructures, including national critical infrastructure, offer many essential services to communities and nations. In some cases, a nation’s economy depends on these infrastructures. They rely on industrial control systems (ICS) and operational technology (OT) to provide uninterrupted and reliable services.

These infrastructures often contain security gaps and flaws in technology implementations leading to succesful cyberattacks. Some of them rely on the concept of air-gap networks to thwart cyber intrusions. However, due to interconnections between internal and external networks and the expansion of services, air-gap implementations are fading away. As a result, ICS that are not designed with security in mind are exposed to external threats, compromising the resiliency of the infrastructure.

Strategic readiness should be underpinned by the notion that eventually, a cyberattack will happen, and when it occurs, you should be proactively ready to respond. Fortifying operational technology is essential to make these infrastructures cyber-resilient and available to serve.

During this keynote, Jason Dely will speak about implementing a comprehensive and proactive risk management strategy. He will discuss evaluating tools to properly assess the cyber risk posture and effectively prioritize the most pressing vulnerabilities to safeguard these infrastructures from cyberattacks and make them cyber-resilient.