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The Cyber-Physical Balance Sheet: Managing OT Cyber Risk, Insurance, and Resilience

Tuesday, October 6, 2026
2:20 PM - 2:50 PM
Tech Track (Great Room 1)

About This Session

OT cyber incidents are no longer just security events; they are balance-sheet events. As industrial organizations increase connectivity and modernize operations, they face a wider range of cyber-physical losses: business interruption, equipment damage, environmental liability, contractual penalties, and, in the worst cases, safety impacts. This session connects current OT threat patterns with their financial consequences and explains why many organizations still face a cyber-physical insurance gap between traditional cyber and property coverage. Using a practical risk-quantification lens, it describes the financial benefit of avoiding cyber risk (with techniques like CIE), it shows how to move from technical indicators to loss distributions, evaluate the financial benefit of mitigation, make better retain-versus-transfer decisions with insurers, and achieve the eventual state of being able to accept current OT cyber risk and answer "we've spent enough for now". This talk is about risk management, using financial loss to make better decisions about avoiding, mitigating, transferring, and accepting cybersecurity risk.

Speaker

Donovan Tindill

Donovan Tindill

Sr Dir, OT Cybersecurity - DeNexus

Donovan is Sr Director and Subject Matter Expert (SME) at DeNexus. He spent over 17 years as a customer-facing ICS/OT cybersecurity consultant, and another 5 years in Product Management with direct leadership over Honeywell's ICS/OT cybersecurity products, consulting and managed security services. Donovan now provides industry expertise for DeNexus’ DeRISK platform.

From startups to large public companies, he has been a major contributor to the OT cybersecurity community since 2000 including ISA-99/62443 author/contributor/trainer, Vice-Chair for DHS Industrial Control Systems Joint Working Group (ICSJWG) Steering Team (IST); Public Safety Canada ICS Security Symposium Advisory Committee member and advisor to universities building ICS/OT cybersecurity curriculums.