Embracing Emerging Technologies to Protect from Past and Future Threats
Dan Gunter
S4x24 - ICS Security Conference · Day 3 · Stage 3
In this insightful talk at S4, Dan Gunter addresses the critical need for the industrial cybersecurity sector to adopt **emerging technologies** and embrace a higher degree of **automation** in its defense strategies. Drawing parallels from the evolution of control systems and the advancements in autonomous vehicles, Gunter argues that current cybersecurity practices in **Operational Technology (OT)** environments are struggling to keep pace with the scale and sophistication of modern threats, primarily due to severe resource constraints in human expertise and incident response capabilities.
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Dan Gunter's talk at S4 presents a compelling and novel framework for scaling industrial cybersecurity defenses through systematic automation, drawing parallels with automotive automation standards. He effectively highlights the critical limitations of current manual incident response capabilities in OT environments, particularly against advanced threats like Volt Typhoon, and proposes a structured approach to leverage AI and process-aware data for automated detection, response, and recovery. The talk offers a practical roadmap for asset owners struggling with resource constraints and…