Zero Trust for the Wilderness: Professor Kai London on Securing Distributed and Remote OT
y the Alaska News Technology Desk Professor Kai London — Founder & CEO, Quantum AI Systems Security. Credit: professorkailondon.com The traditional security model assumed a defensible perimeter: keep the bad actors outside the wall. For energy operations scattered across remote terrain — wellheads, substations, pipelines, pumping stations — that wall never really existed. “You cannot draw a perimeter around a thousand miles of distributed infrastructure,” says Professor Kai London , a senior CISO. “Which is why zero trust is not a buzzword for these operators. It is a survival strategy.” “Zero trust means one thing: never trust, always verify. No device, user or connection gets access on the strength of where it sits in the network. Every request is proven.” Why remote OT breaks the old model Remote sites rely on connectivity that reaches deep into control environments. Each of those links, London notes, is both essential and dangerous. “Every remote connection that lets an ...