Podcast#26: Blackstarts and Blindspots

How AI can turn air gaps into security gaps for ICS/SCADAFor decades, critical infrastructure companies have relied on organizational silos—air gaps between IT and operational technology—to ensure that enterprise disruptions do not cascade into the physical systems that keep the lights on. But those silos have been largely successful due to biology and physics: the scale of coordination and depth of expertise required to overwhelm them has been beyond human capability. That changed when we built something capable of assembling expert skill sets instantaneously. Patrick Miller, CEO of Ampyx Cyber, recovering regulator, and one of the most recognized voices in OT cybersecurity, joins Matt Calligan to confront the question that most organizations have not seriously answered: what does resilience look like when both IT and OT systems are simultaneously degraded or unavailable—and the assumption that you can "go back to manual" turns out to be a pipe dream?