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Presenter:
The talk centers on quantifying cyber risk in industrial and maritime environments—arguing that organizations still don’t understand the real financial impact of disruption, especially when it comes to energy and operational downtime.
Key takeaways
- Cyber risk = operational disruption, not just data loss
In OT and maritime sectors, the real damage isn’t stolen data—it’s lost production, halted systems, and cascading physical impact. - Cost needs to be measured in real-world units
- Cost per kilowatt (energy)
- Downtime per hour/day
- Impact on logistics, shipping, and supply chains
- This reframes cyber incidents as business continuity failures
- Most organizations underestimate impact
- Risk models are still IT-centric
- They don’t account for physical process disruption
- As a result, leadership underinvests or misallocates resources
- Maritime and energy sectors are uniquely exposed
- Highly interconnected systems
- Heavy reliance on uptime
- Limited tolerance for disruption
- Attacks can ripple across global supply chains
- We need better risk calculators
- Translating cyber events into financial and operational terms
- Giving leadership a clearer picture of consequences
- Enabling smarter prioritization of security investments
