Hot New Gameshow: My Favorite Metric!
Ron Fabela
S4x24 - ICS Security Conference · Day 3 · Stage 2
At the S4 conference, Ron Fabela hosted a unique and engaging session titled "My Favorite Metric," structured as a gameshow. The premise was simple yet profound: contestants were given three minutes to pitch their most impactful **Operational Technology (OT) security metric** to a panel of expert judges, vying for cash prizes. This innovative format aimed to unearth and critically evaluate metrics that truly matter in the complex and often opaque world of industrial control systems (ICS) and critical infrastructure security.
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This session, presented in a novel 'gameshow' format, provided a much-needed, no-nonsense discussion on actionable metrics for Operational Technology (OT) security. It cut through the usual fluff to present practical, real-world measures like Incident Root Cause Analysis (RCA) Rate and the unexpectedly brilliant 'Advanced Persistent Drinker' (APD) metric. The session delivered genuine insights into how to quantify and communicate OT risk and improvement, making it highly valuable for practitioners grappling with the unique challenges of industrial control systems.