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September 10, 2026

CIRCIA Covered Entity Criteria: Does the Rule Apply to You?

CISA’s current regulatory agenda targets September 2026 for the final rule implementing the Cyber Incident Reporting...

CIRCIA, CIRCIA covered entity

Cybersecurity Musings

September 2, 2026

Your OT Isolation Plan: What You Can Actually Disconnect When It Matters

It’s Tuesday afternoon and word comes in that an integrator with remote access to your environment has been compromised....

Cybersecurity Musings

August 26, 2026

Siemens S7 Detection After AA26-231A: What Production Traffic Actually Shows

Siemens S7 detection moved up a lot of roadmaps this month. On August 19, 2026, the NSA, CISA, FBI, Department of Energy,...

Cybersecurity Musings

August 19, 2026

How to Find Undocumented External Connections in Your OT Network

There’s probably a path out of your control network that nobody has written down. In most critical infrastructure environments,...

Cybersecurity Musings

August 13, 2026

OT Manual Operations Plan: What Manual Operation Buys You

On the morning of Monday, July 27, the operating controls at the well and water treatment plant in Braham, Minnesota, went...

Cybersecurity Musings

July 30, 2026

The Security Assessment Was the Easy Part (Like Catching a Magikarp)

A security assessment fills a report with findings the way a Pokedex fills with entries. Neither one wins a fight. Here’s...

Cybersecurity Musings

July 23, 2026

Context is the Missing Layer in OT Security

A CVSS score can tell you how severe a vulnerability looks on paper. It cannot tell you whether that vulnerability is reachable...

Cybersecurity Musings

July 17, 2026

OT Credential Abuse: They Logged In. They Didn’t Break In

The dangerous intruder in OT today isn’t bombing the wall. They walked through the front door with a key that shouldn’t...

Cybersecurity Musings

July 8, 2026

The Transparency Curve: Understanding Statistics, Machine Learning, LLMs, and AI in OT Cybersecurity

The term Artificial Intelligence (AI) often covers everything from a mathematical decision tree written in 2011 to a large...

Cybersecurity Musings

July 1, 2026

Agentic AI in OT: An Army of Helpers You Never Hired

Agentic AI in OT is moving into operational workflows faster than anyone is governing it. Every helpful one is a credential...

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