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IT cybersecurity teams inheriting operational technology security and cyber-physical systems protection programs often come into these situations with competing incentives. This dynamic creates gaps in protecting OT and CPS that must be assessed and addressed.
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Exploring the IT/OT Incentive Gap

Jon Holzbauer writes about how IT and OT organizations can butt heads over the incentives that drive decision-making and how they shape priorities in protecting critical systems.

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IT cybersecurity teams inheriting operational technology security and cyber-physical systems protection programs often come into these situations with competing incentives. This dynamic creates gaps in protecting OT and CPS that must be assessed and addressed.
Industrial cybersecurity expert Danielle Jablanski reflects on market shifts around operational technology (OT) and industrial control systems (ICS) cybersecurity and predicts a newfound emphasis and approach to security metrics in 2026.
Operational Technology
Operational Resilience
Cyber Resilience
Risk Management

Nexus Reflections and Predictions: Danielle Jablanski

Danielle Jablanski
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Dec 23, 2025
Compensating controls are often the only cybersecurity options available to offset risk in operational technology environments still supporting legacy technology or end-of-life industrial control systems or field devices.
Operational Technology
Cyber Resilience
Vulnerability Management
Risk Management

Nexus Reflections and Predictions: Don C. Weber

Don C. Weber
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Dec 29, 2025
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Operational Technology
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Vulnerability Management

Nexus Reflections and Predictions: Pedro Umbelino

Pedro Umbelino
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Dec 22, 2025
Connected process control technologies force asset owners to change their perceptions of risk, cyber resilience, and operational resilience.
Operational Technology
Operational Resilience
Cyber Resilience
Risk Management

Nexus Reflections and Predictions: Steven Sim

Steven Sim
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Jan 5, 2026

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Jay Catherine, a security architect for a major retailer, joins the Nexus Podcast to discuss best practices for logistics cybersecurity within the retail space. This includes securing not only distribution, but also the operational technology involved in these manufacturing processes.
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Nexus Podcast: Jay Catherine on Securing Logistics, OT in Retail

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On this episode of the Nexus Podcast, Greg Garcia, Executive Director of The Health Sector Coordinating Council Cybersecurity Working Group, discusses the Sector Mapping and Risk Toolkit (SMART). SMART contains a set of 17 templates that enable healthcare organizations to map and visualize workflows, identify areas of risk, and where mitigations are most desperately needed.
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Nexus Podcast: Greg Garcia on the Sector Mapping and Risk Toolkit for Healthcare

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Nexus Podcast: Christopher Frenz on Evidence-Based Security

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Adm. Michael S. Rogers, USN (Ret.) joins the Nexus podcast to discuss the Biden administration's National Cybersecurity Strategy, and its themes of cyber resilience and critical infrastructure protection.
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Nexus Podcast: Adm. Michael Rogers on Deterrence in Cyberspace

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IT cybersecurity teams inheriting operational technology security and cyber-physical systems protection programs often come into these situations with competing incentives. This dynamic creates gaps in protecting OT and CPS that must be assessed and addressed.
Risk Management
Operational Resilience
Industrial
Operational Technology
Cyber Resilience

Competing Incentives Create IT/OT Security Gaps

Jon Holzbauer
Connected process control technologies force asset owners to change their perceptions of risk, cyber resilience, and operational resilience.
Operational Technology
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Cyber Resilience
Risk Management

Nexus Reflections and Predictions: Steven Sim

Steven Sim
ASL Roma 1, a public health provider in Rome, has distinguished itself in the global healthcare landscape over the past two years by implementing advanced cybersecurity strategies, moving toward a hyper convergent security model, the so-called HyperSOC, in response to the growing cyber attacks in the global healthcare sector.
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Nexus Reflections and Predictions: Stefano Scaramuzzino

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Nexus Reflections and Predictions: Jim LaBonty

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Compensating controls are often the only cybersecurity options available to offset risk in operational technology environments still supporting legacy technology or end-of-life industrial control systems or field devices.
Operational Technology
Cyber Resilience
Vulnerability Management
Risk Management

Nexus Reflections and Predictions: Don C. Weber

Don C. Weber
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CISA Warns: AI Integration Exposes OT to ‘Unsolved’ Semantic Threats

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Industrial cybersecurity expert Danielle Jablanski reflects on market shifts around operational technology (OT) and industrial control systems (ICS) cybersecurity and predicts a newfound emphasis and approach to security metrics in 2026.
Operational Technology
Operational Resilience
Cyber Resilience
Risk Management

Nexus Reflections and Predictions: Danielle Jablanski

Danielle Jablanski
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Operational Technology
Cyber Resilience
Vulnerability Management

Nexus Reflections and Predictions: Pedro Umbelino

Pedro Umbelino
Jay Catherine, a security architect for a major retailer, joins the Nexus Podcast to discuss best practices for logistics cybersecurity within the retail space. This includes securing not only distribution, but also the operational technology involved in these manufacturing processes.
Industrial
Internet of Things
Cyber Resilience
Operational Resilience
Operational Technology

Nexus Podcast: Jay Catherine on Securing Logistics, OT in Retail

Michael Mimoso