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This is another episode with the founders of great ICS companies. Dr. J. Patrick Kennedy founded OSIsoft in 1980 and grew it to dominate the historian / data broker segment of the ICS market. OSIsoft was sold in 2021 to AVEVA for $5B. In this show we talk about:

• 1:55 The starting and first decade of OSIsoft
• 18:24 OSIsoft's motivation to focus on security before most other companies
• 35:20 The acquisition decision and future

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Dale's weekly article from 13 July 2021 covers the ICSsec communities love to argue over broad terms and when it helps and hinders communication.

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A recent article by Jay Healey and Robert Jervis, The Escalation Inversion and Other Oddities of Situational Cyber Stability, breaks down four mechanisms in which cyber activities could be used and result in a stabilizing or destablizing.

Dale talks with Jay about the article, escalation due to cyber, and the current state and future of cyber norms.

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Now that we are starting to have secure ICS protocol options and deployments, its time to get serious about key management. The de facto use of self-signed certificates only provide illusory security. Key management in ICS can be simple and the community should start with simple.

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Marc Ayala of 1898 & Co. joins Dale to discuss the month's top stories in ICS security and give their wins, fails and predictions. 

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My weekly article published on 29 June 2021.

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The tables were turned when Jannis Stemmann and Simeon Mussler of Bosch CyberCompare interviewed me for a long form German interview series. They graciously allowed me to record the audio as well for this show.

There is a short discussion on the S4x22 Call For Presentations and the Basic Sponsor application at the start. The interview begins at 4:20.

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Dale's weekly article covers Claroty's $140M D Round and what it means for the detection space.

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Dale interviews the two project leaders of a global community effort to create a Top 20 Secure PLC Coding Practices. We cover:

• who it's for
• examples of types/categories of the practices
• some of the ways it can be used
• what following the practices will and will not accomplish
• how you can help make a difference

The document and supporting information is available at https://plc-security.com and the twitter is @secureplc.

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My article from 15 June 2021. 

It began with Jake Brodsky's S4x20 session on tips and tricks he had learned in his long career with a water utility to improve the resiliency, maintenance and security of a PLC and the underlying physical process. Today, it results in the release of Version 1.0 of the Top 20 Secure PLC Coding Practices with one of the least restrictive licenses for use, distribution and modification you will ever see. We want this Top 20 list to be used. Listen for more ...

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