Andrew Ginter

VP Industrial Security, Waterfall Security Solutions, Canada

Andrew Ginter is the VP Industrial Security at Waterfall Security Solutions, a co-host of the Industrial Security Podcast and the author of two books on OT security. At Waterfall Andrew leads a team of experts responsible for industrial cyber-security research, contributions to standards and regulations, and security architecture recommendations for industrial sites.

In his latest book, Andrew argues that IT-SEC protects information, while SEC-OT protects physical operations from information, more specifically, from attacks embedded in information. After all, all cyber attacks are information and every bit of information can be an attack. A comprehensive inventory of information flows – both offline and online – is nothing more or less than a comprehensive inventory of attack vectors. Information passing from OT to IT = “monitoring data” – mostly harmless. Information passing from IT to OT = “control data” – to which we must apply strict discipline to prevent attacks.

Secure Operations Technology is a perspective, methodology and set of best practices describing how secure industrial sites protect themselves from information/attack/control flows. A limited number of complementary copies of Secure Operations Technology are available to qualified practitioners, courtesy of Waterfall Security Solutions, at https://waterfall-security.com/sec-ot. 

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