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October 28, 2026

The Night Shift: Five OT Horror Stories That Don't Need Monsters

Every OT engineer knows the sound of a Friday going sideways. It starts with somebody looking at a screen and saying, very...

ot horror stories

Cybersecurity Musings

October 2, 2026

Who Can Change Your Process? Reviewing OT Command Paths

A historian, an operator station, and an engineering workstation may all communicate with the same programmable logic controller...

Cybersecurity Musings

September 24, 2026

CIRCIA Reporting Requirements: Clocks, Contents, and Records

In part one, we discussed how covered entity status gets determined under the proposed CIRCIA rule, including the sector...

Podcasts

September 14, 2026

AI in OT: AI Needs a Human - PrOTect IT All podcast, ep 123

EmberOT Founder and CEO Jori VanAntwerp joins host Aaron Crow for a conversation about AI in OT and the realities of protecting...

Cybersecurity Musings

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...

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...

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