OT Incident Realities—What Happens, What Breaks and How to Respond
Operational Technology incidents don’t behave like traditional IT breaches—and responding the same way can create a variety of unintended consequences.
In OT environments, cybersecurity events can directly impact safety, production and critical infrastructure. Visibility is often limited, systems are fragile and containment actions must be carefully balanced against operational continuity. What works in IT incident response doesn’t always translate—and in some cases, can make things worse.
In this edition of The Brick House, GuidePoint Security experts from our OT Security and DFIR & Threat Intelligence practices share real-world perspectives on how organizations are navigating these challenges.
In this session, we’ll cover:
- How OT incident response differs from traditional IT response—and why that matters
- Pathways attackers use to move from IT into OT environments
- What actually happens during an OT incident—from detection through recovery
- The operational and safety tradeoffs that shape response decisions
- Aligning security, engineering and ops teams during an incident
- Practical steps to build OT-specific response plans, playbooks and readiness strategies
Why attend:
Whether you’re responsible for security, operations or risk, this session will provide a clearer understanding of how OT incidents unfold—and what it takes to respond effectively without disrupting critical processes.
This is a candid, experience-driven discussion focused on helping organizations move from reactive response to operational resilience.
Hosted by Gary Brickhouse, CISO at GuidePoint Security, featuring:
- Steve Brzozowski, Managing Security Consultant
- Blake Cifelli, Principal Advisory Consultant
- Mary Gannon, Managing OT Security Engineer
- Patrick Gillespie, Practice Director, Operational Technology
About The Brick House Webinar:
The Brick House is a monthly panel discussion with Gary Brickhouse, CISO and expert guests examining the hottest topics in cybersecurity. There are no talking heads here, just honest conversations examining the problems we all face in cybersecurity. Gain insights from security practitioners who have current, real-world experience solving the most complex cybersecurity challenges.
