Industry Recognition: Patrick Miller Inducted into Industrial Cyber Hall of Fame
By AMPYX STAFF
Ampyx Cyber President and CEO Patrick Miller has been inducted into the Industrial Cyber Hall of Fame, joining a distinguished group of practitioners who helped define industrial cybersecurity as a discipline. The recognition highlights over three decades of work in grid security, NERC CIP development, and critical infrastructure protection around the globe.
Overview
Ampyx Cyber is pleased to share that our President and CEO, Patrick Miller, has been inducted into the Industrial Cyber Hall of Fame.
The Hall of Fame recognizes individuals who have made lasting contributions to the field of industrial cybersecurity. Patrick joins a distinguished group of inductees, researchers, engineers, operators, and policy voices who helped define and advance the discipline during a period when its strategic importance to national security and grid reliability was still being established.
About the Recognition
Industrial Cyber profiled Patrick as a "Grid Cybersecurity Architect and Enforcer," a title that reflects a career spanning more than three decades across electric power operations, critical infrastructure security consulting, NERC CIP standard development, federal regulatory enforcement, Department of Energy program leadership, training/workforce development, and private advisory work.
Among the career milestones the feature highlights: Patrick was among the original architects of the NERC CIP standards and became the first federal delegated auditor to enforce them, helping transform grid cybersecurity from policy guidance into binding operational discipline. He also founded EnergySec, served as a SANS Institute instructor, has provided expert congressional testimony, and has been recognized by Forbes as one of 20 Cyber Policy Experts to Follow.
The full Hall of Fame interview, conducted by Industrial Cyber News Editor Anna Ribeiro, covers Patrick's perspective on the evolution of ICS security, the gap between compliance and operational resilience, supply chain risk, the changing nature of the grid, and what he believes the next generation of practitioners needs to focus on.
“We weren’t just adding computers and networks to the grid; we were making the grid a giant networked computer.”
The interview also reflects a throughline that has defined Patrick's advisory work: that compliance and security are not the same thing, and that the goal of any serious program should be operational resilience, not a clean audit report
“NERC CIP represents the floor, not the ceiling. Your goal should never be to just pass an audit, but to ensure that even if the audit fails, the power stays on.”
A Note of Thanks
We are grateful to Industrial Cyber for this recognition and for the thoughtful, substantive way they approach the Hall of Fame series. We are equally grateful to the clients, colleagues, regulators, and broader community of practitioners whose trust and collaboration have shaped this work over the years.
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