Twenty years in control rooms
Control-systems designer. OT cyber-security consultant. Worldwide experience. Business advisor. Founder.
I started as a control engineer, programming PLCs for process plants, and spent the next twenty years designing control and communications systems at every scale: a wind tunnel for the defense industry, five hundred controllers across the Weizmann Institute's campuses, and a central energy system for three hundred Shufersal supermarkets.
In 2013 the plants I had designed began to be attacked, and I moved to defending them. I founded ICS Security, built two products, wrote a course that governments bought, and ran risk assessments in power stations in Israel and Turkey. Today I split my time between designing control systems, designing their defenses, and advising companies on growth and on AI.
What I have done
- Designed control systems for twenty years, in Israel and abroad; in OT/ICS cyber defense since 2013.
- Cyber advisor on critical infrastructure to Israel's Ministry of Defense, to government ministries at home and abroad, and to enterprise clients.
- Risk assessments of critical facilities in Israel and abroad: power stations, hydro-electric plants, a gas facility.
- Founder and CEO of SmartLogic (control and automation) and of ICS Security (OT cyber defense).
- Developed two protection products, SPARTA (patented) and GRAPHENE.
- Wrote and delivered the Critical Infrastructure Protection course to the governments of Singapore and Japan, among others.
Education and certification
- B.Sc. in Computer Science and Mathematics, with honours
- MBA studies, business administration
- CSSA, Certified SCADA Security Architect
- IEI Certified (Belden, Germany), industrial control-system protection
- Control and cyber-security training in the United States
- Working fluency in NIST SP 800-82, NERC CIP and ISA/IEC 62443
Areas of expertise
- Industrial communications and cyber infrastructure The control network, its VLANs and links, and the layered defenses around it.
- Control systems for corporations and public bodies Large, multi-site facilities: power stations, defense industry, campuses, retail chains.
- ICS Security and SPARTA Founding the company and building the patented HMI protection module.
- The ICS/SCADA security course Three modules, hands-on attack and defense labs, training kits.