Panel: Building a SOC That Can Defend Both IT and OT
About This Session
As IT and OT environments converge, the security operations center can no longer treat them as separate worlds. yet the two domains speak different languages, prioritize different outcomes, and often report through different teams.
This panel brings together security leaders from government and the energy sector to discuss what it actually takes to build a SOC that defends both, where IT's focus on data confidentiality meets OT's non-negotiable demands for uptime and safety. Panelists will share hard-won lessons on unifying visibility across IT and OT assets, tuning detection for industrial protocols and behaviors, and coordinating incident response when a single event can span the corporate network and the plant floor.
The discussion will also tackle the organizational realities — staffing, skills, governance, and trust between security and engineering teams — that ultimately decide whether a converged SOC succeeds. Attendees will leave with practical models for closing the IT/OT gap in their own operations.
This panel brings together security leaders from government and the energy sector to discuss what it actually takes to build a SOC that defends both, where IT's focus on data confidentiality meets OT's non-negotiable demands for uptime and safety. Panelists will share hard-won lessons on unifying visibility across IT and OT assets, tuning detection for industrial protocols and behaviors, and coordinating incident response when a single event can span the corporate network and the plant floor.
The discussion will also tackle the organizational realities — staffing, skills, governance, and trust between security and engineering teams — that ultimately decide whether a converged SOC succeeds. Attendees will leave with practical models for closing the IT/OT gap in their own operations.
Speaker
Brad Nash
OTCRM SOC Supervisor - ExxonMobil
Brad Nash is the OTCRM Security Operations Center Supervisor – Americas, leading 24/7 monitoring and incident response for industrial operations and overseeing ICS External Network Connections (ENC) standards. With more than a decade across energy and financial services, he specializes in detection engineering, SOC automation, and IT–OT collaboration that protects safety-critical environments. He holds a B.S. in Network Communications & Management and an A.S. in Network & System Administration.