Cyber Senate Podcast

Industrial Control Cybersecurity: A discussion "Confidentiality, integrity, and availability versus Safety and Reliability"

October 12, 2020 James Nesbitt / Cyber Senate
Cyber Senate Podcast
Industrial Control Cybersecurity: A discussion "Confidentiality, integrity, and availability versus Safety and Reliability"
Show Notes

Cyber Senate discusses confidentiality, integrity, and availability versus Safety and Reliability with Michael Firstenberg, Waterfall Security Solution's Director of Industrial Security. Mr Firstenberg will be moderating and contribution to a Panel Discussion on November 4th with the Cyber Senate for the 7th annual Industrial Control Cybersecurity Europe online conference 2020. 

Mike Firstenberg is the Director of Industrial Security for Waterfall Security. Mike brings almost two decades of experience in Control System Security, specializing in Control System Cyber Security. With a proven track record as a hands-on engineer - researching, designing, and implementing strategic security solutions, Mike has an established background working with governmental institutions, regulatory authorities, and industrial utilities. The former chair of the American Water SCADA Council, Mike studied Computer Science, Chemical Engineering, and Mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania, and has served as a speaker and panelist at numerous conferences and events.


Waterfall Security Solutions is the global leader in industrial cybersecurity, protecting critical industrial networks since 2007. Our mission is to revolutionize how entire industries protect physical assets and industrial processes from cyber attacks. Waterfall’s patented, unidirectional products enable safe IT/OT integration, remote monitoring and diagnostics, cloud connectivity and tamper-proof forensics, without the vulnerabilities that always accompany firewalled connectivity. 

The company’s growing list of customers includes national critical infrastructures and utilities, power plants, nuclear plants, water and wastewater systems, offshore platforms, refineries, pipelines, pharmaceutical, chemical and manufacturing plants, and many more. Deployed world-wide, Waterfall products support the widest range of industrial and remote monitoring platforms, applications, databases and protocols in the market. 

As a global leader in industrial control system security, Waterfall contributes routinely to national and international standards, best practice guidance and control system security educational programs. As a result, our products are widely recognized as simplifying compliance with security regulations, standards and best practices. https://www.waterfall-security.com