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Your Environment, Your Risk: Building an OT Risk Management Program You Can Defend
Policy Pulse Patrick Miller Policy Pulse Patrick Miller

Your Environment, Your Risk: Building an OT Risk Management Program You Can Defend

There is no rulebook for securing an OT environment, and there never could be. Two utilities can make entirely different choices and both be defensible. Here is how to build an OT risk management program you can stand behind: map your environment, rank the consequences you will not tolerate, choose controls deliberately, and document why, so you can defend every decision an auditor asks about.

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Poland's Energy Sector Attack, Part Two: When the Path Into OT Is a Private Cellular Network
Deep Dive Patrick Miller Deep Dive Patrick Miller

Poland's Energy Sector Attack, Part Two: When the Path Into OT Is a Private Cellular Network

A second Polish combined heat and power plant was hit the same morning as the December 2025 attacks. CERT Polska's follow-up report describes something no one had seen in the wild, an attacker pivoting into an operational technology network across a shared private cellular network (a private APN). It explains how the chain worked, why the weak link sat on infrastructure the plant did not control, and what every operator relying on a private APN should check now.

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S4x23 Trip Report
Event Edge Patrick Miller Event Edge Patrick Miller

S4x23 Trip Report

This year, the S4 event hosted by Dale Peterson (DigitalBond) was bigger than ever. New venue, new content, new challenges, new theme, and a new feel. Here’s a report of my experience with some bad, some good and some great things that happened.

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