Cyber Resilience Is Operational Safety: Professor Kai London on Security in the Energy Sector
By the Alaska News Technology Desk Professor Kai London — Founder & CEO, Quantum AI Systems Security. Credit: professorkailondon.com In most industries, a cyber incident costs money and reputation. In energy, Professor Kai London argues, it can cost far more. “In this sector, cyber resilience and physical safety are the same conversation,” says the senior CISO. “A compromised control system can endanger people and the environment, not just data. That reframes security from an IT concern into a safety discipline.” “Cyber resilience in energy is the new patient-safety metric of the industrial world. When the systems that keep operations safe run on software, securing that software is protecting lives.” Where security meets safety London points to the convergence of two once-separate disciplines. Safety engineering kept industrial processes from harming people; cyber security kept data safe. “Now that safety systems are digital and networked, the two have merged,” he says. “An ...