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Scaling cyber physical systems throughout the organisation
Cyber Security: A Peer-Reviewed Journal,
5
(1),
37-50
(2021)
Abstract
This paper outlines a realistic and practical examination regarding the considerations and factors in scaling complex cyber physical systems alongside modern digital transformation: a guide for how businesses can strategically and operationally navigate (both proactively and reactively) the ‘unknown unknowns’ not just simply to survive but to be resilient and adaptive, leveraging their own internal processes, structures and constraints without significant disruption or radical changes. It is designed to equip the reader with a blend of strategic, operational, technical and human business thinking paired with a concept of ‘visibility’ beyond just situational business awareness. It aims to guide businesses through management of new business trends, ever -standards and compliance requirements, including larger and more complex developments such as 5G operationalisation, geostrategic challenges and political factors that are increasingly important to and unavoidable for businesses. The paper touches on a variety of disciplines and their convergence within business considerations and their integration and scaling within an organisation.
Keywords: framework; scale; design; Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT); cyber; physical; maturity model; life cycle
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Author's Biography
Matt Leipnik is the lead industrial cyber security specialist for Nexus Controls, a Baker Hughes business. He is responsible for developing customer operational technology (OT) cyber security solutions across Europe and the UK. Matt has over 19 years’ experience in cyber security, with a history of working in global tier 1 telecommunications providers in their managed security services (MSS) businesses. This included developing the MSS business for Tata Communications as their head of global pre-sales engineering as well as time with BT Global Services as a technical account manager and security operations centre (SoC) manager. Matt also built the technology and security stack for the UK’s first digital innovation collaboration space. Before joining Baker Hughes, Matt had his own company providing security consultancy and virtual CISO services to several customers, including one of the world’s largest offshore windfarms. Matt holds a BSc (Hons) in computing science from the University of Greenwich and has given talks on industrial cyber security at the IET, ISA Qatar, API Europe and Fortinet Secure OT 2020.
