Building a Safety-Aligned ICS/OT Cybersecurity Program

Many organizations still apply IT-style assumptions to industrial environments, creating blind spots that put safety and operations at risk. In this webcast, SANS Principal Instructor and ICS418 co-author Dean Parsons shares the most common leadership pitfalls he encounters across sectors like energy, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, transportation, logistics, and food & beverage, and how to avoid them.

Dean will show how to anchor governance and investment choices to safety-aligned risk, define clear roles and accountability across operations, engineering, IT, and security, and close gaps around vendor and remote access—without disrupting uptime. He will reference the GOES Governance Model to illustrate durable leadership structures that work across sectors and provide all attendees to a actionable ICS/OT Leadership resource.

To ground decisions in current reality, Dean will highlight key takeaways from the 2025 SANS ICS/OT Security Report, giving leaders timely context to adjust strategies and strengthen resilience.