When Russian hackers target a water utility, they don't just attack the SCADA systems—they use Western telecom providers for command-and-control, Western cloud platforms for staging, and Western financial systems for resource acquisition. This session reveals how coordinated infrastructure denial can break these attack chains before they reach OT environments.
Drawing from experience securing critical medical devices and industrial systems, this presentation demonstrates why traditional IT security approaches fail in OT environments facing nation-state adversaries. We'll examine real-world attack chains against industrial targets, showing how 90% depend on commercial Western infrastructure that could be denied through coordination.

Key Takeaways:
Mapping nation-state attack infrastructure dependencies in industrial sectors
Why ISACs fail at real-time threat sharing (and how to fix them)
Legal frameworks needed to enable cross-sector defensive coordination
Practical models for utility, manufacturing, and energy sector collaboration
Case study: How coordinated denial could have stopped recent water sector attacks
Building sector-specific threat fusion centers that actually work

This session provides industrial defenders with actionable strategies for collective defense. When China targets one manufacturer's IP, every manufacturer in that sector should know within hours. When we identify hostile infrastructure, every participating utility should deny access simultaneously.

Technical Level: Intermediate
Primary Audience: Security leaders in utilities, manufacturing, oil & gas, transportation
Secondary Audience: Government liaisons, ISAC coordinators, OT security engineers
Note: This is a strategy session focused on coordination frameworks, not a vendor pitch. All recommendations are vendor-neutral and based on operational experience.