Cyber Insights 2026: The Ongoing Fight To Secure Industrial Control Systems
SecurityWeek, Tuesday, February 17th, 2026
As nation-state actors, ransomware groups, and aging infrastructure collide, organizations must rethink how they defend critical operations through resilience, visibility, and modern security strategies.
The cybersecurity challenge for Industrial Control Systems (ICS) is they were designed in conditions of peace but now operate in a continuous war zone.
Bryson Bort, CEO and founder at SCYTHE, starts his conversations on ICS security with a joke: 'How can you tell a computer is an ICS?. It's at least 20 years old.' The purpose is not to elicit laughter but to make people think. 'Once the humor passes and the reality sets in, the scale of the problem - an entrenched ecosystem with the inertia of security challenges baked in for years - becomes apparent..'