All Episodes
Displaying 21 - 40 of 89 in total
Episode 20 — Manage Legacy OT Hardware and Ports: Physical Exposure, Protocol Limits, and Access
This episode focuses on the hardware and physical-access side of OT security, because legacy ports and exposed cabinets can turn a secure network design into an easy b...
Episode 21 — Apply Modern OT Patterns: Virtual Machines, Hypervisors, Switching, and Virtual PLCs
This episode explains how virtualization shows up in modern OT environments and why SecOT+ questions increasingly assume you understand the operational and security tr...
Episode 22 — Use Containers, SDN, and Middleware in OT: Benefits, Risks, and Failure Modes
This episode teaches how containers, software-defined networking, and middleware can improve OT agility and visibility while also creating new trust dependencies that ...
Episode 23 — Evaluate AI in OT Security: ML, Generative AI, and Operational Risk Tradeoffs
This episode explains how to evaluate AI claims in OT security without falling into hype or blanket rejection, because the exam and the real world both reward balanced...
Episode 24 — Place OT Workloads in Cloud and Edge: Public, Private, Hybrid, and Vendor Services
This episode teaches how OT workloads are increasingly split across on-prem, edge, and cloud locations, and how to reason about security and resilience when data and c...
Episode 25 — Understand Privatized Backbones and Autonomous Systems: Security and Resilience Impacts
This episode explains how privatized networks, carrier backbones, and autonomous system routing influence OT connectivity and resilience, especially when remote sites,...
Episode 26 — Explain OT GRC Value: Security That Supports Operations, Not Fights Them
This episode teaches governance, risk, and compliance in OT as a practical operating system for decisions, rather than paperwork that competes with production. You’ll ...
Episode 27 — Align OT Security to Business Objectives: Risk Appetite, Continuity, and Recovery
This episode explains how OT security priorities should be anchored to business objectives so security becomes a reliability partner instead of an external requirement...
Episode 28 — Balance Security Versus Operations: Governance Structures and Decision Authorities
This episode teaches how decision authority works in OT, because many SecOT+ questions are really asking who must be involved, who can approve, and what sequence prese...
Episode 29 — Translate OT Business Impact: Financial, Reputational, Quality, and Operational Consequences
This episode explains how to communicate OT risk and incident impact in business language without losing technical accuracy, a skill that matters for governance decis...
Episode 30 — Prioritize Safety Outcomes: Loss of Life, Environmental Harm, and Reliability Expectations
This episode centers safety as the primary outcome driver in OT security, because the most important consequences are not always the most visible on a dashboard. You’l...
Episode 31 — Navigate Legal and Regulatory Drivers: Compliance Pressure and Non-Compliance Fallout
This episode explains how legal and regulatory drivers shape OT security decisions, not as abstract compliance theory, but as concrete constraints that influence budge...
Episode 32 — Build a Cybersecurity Program in OT: Risk Levels, Registry, and Maturity Assessment
This episode teaches how to build an OT cybersecurity program that is anchored in risk reality, where safety, uptime, and long equipment lifecycles require structure w...
Episode 33 — Benchmark OT Security Progress: Baselines, Targets, and Evidence That Holds Up
This episode explains how to benchmark OT security progress in a way that executives can trust, operators can tolerate, and auditors can validate, because “we think we...
Episode 34 — Develop Practical Roadmaps: Sequencing Improvements Without Production Disruption
This episode teaches how to turn a list of security “needs” into a practical OT roadmap that respects uptime, safety approvals, vendor constraints, and the reality tha...
Episode 35 — Use the RACI Model in OT: Clear Ownership Across Engineering, Ops, and Security
This episode explains how the RACI model prevents confusion in OT by making ownership explicit, which is critical when incidents, patch decisions, and access approvals...
Episode 36 — Manage Stakeholders in OT: Trust, Communication, and Change Acceptance
This episode teaches stakeholder management as a core OT security skill, because security outcomes depend on trust and adoption, not just technical correctness. You’ll...
Episode 37 — Build OT Service Agreements: Procurement Requirements and What MSAs Must Cover:
This episode explains how service agreements shape OT security and resilience, because contracts determine what vendors can do, what they must do, and what evidence yo...
Episode 38 — Define OT SLAs: Internal Versus External Expectations That Protect Uptime
This episode teaches how to define Service Level Agreements that reflect OT priorities, because uptime protection depends on clear expectations about response, restora...
Episode 39 — Use MOUs and SOWs Correctly: Scope, Responsibilities, and Deliverable Discipline
This episode explains how Memoranda of Understanding and Statements of Work support disciplined OT security execution by defining scope and deliverables clearly enough...