IT-OT convergence Speaking

IT-OT Convergence Keynote Speaker

IT and OT convergence is the cybersecurity governance question most industrial enterprises have not finished answering. The IT security team and the OT operations team typically report to different executives, use different vocabularies, operate against different threat models, and run different incident response playbooks. The attackers have figured out how to operate in the seam between them. Mark Lynd is a 5x CEO/CIO/CISO with Thinkers360 Top 10 global rankings across five disciplines simultaneously. He is currently Head of Executive Advisory and Strategy at Netsync, advising enterprise organizations on exactly the IT and OT convergence governance question. His IT-OT convergence content draws on direct advisory engagements with operators in energy, water, manufacturing, transportation, and the public sector, plus 150-plus facilitated tabletop exercises including OT-specific scenarios. The session covers what successful IT-OT security convergence actually looks like in operating organizations: shared incident response playbooks that cover both environments, unified threat detection across IT and OT signal sources, governance structures that prevent the gap from forming again, and the executive coordination decisions that determine whether the convergence holds or fractures back into two separate programs. The regulatory picture (NERC CIP, IEC 62443, NIST SP 800-82, TSA pipeline directives) provides the compliance frame; the operational governance is the substance of the session. Mark also authored Cyber War: One Scenario, the 72-hour scenario walking through a coordinated attack on US critical infrastructure. The IT-OT convergence content draws on the same cascade dynamics covered in the book. Reach out through the contact form for event date and audience type.

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