• SecurityWeek’s Cyber Insights 2026 examines expert opinions on the expected evolution of more than a dozen areas of cybersecurity interest over the next 12 months. • We spoke to hundreds of individual experts to gain their expert opinions. • Here we explore securing industrial control systems and the strategies organizations are adopting to build long-term resilience. • | The cybersecurity challenge for Industrial Control Systems (ICS) is they were designed in conditions of peace but now operate in a continuous war zone. • Bryson Bort, CEO and founder at SCYTHE, starts his conversations on ICS security with a joke: ‘How can you tell a computer is an ICS?… It’s at least 20 years old.’ The purpose is not to elicit laughter but to make people think. • “Once the humor passes and the reality sets in, the scale of the problem - an entrenched ecosystem with the inertia of security challenges baked in for years - becomes apparent..” The continuing problem for securing ICS This is the biggest problem for ICS security.

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  • SecurityWeek’s Cyber Insights 2026 examines expert opinions on the expected evolution of more than a dozen areas of cybersecurity interest over the next 12 months. We spoke to hundreds of individual experts to gain their expert opinions. Here we explore securing industrial control systems and the strategies organizations are adopting to build long-term resilience. | The cybersecurity challenge for Industrial Control Systems (ICS) is they were designed in conditions of peace but now operate in a continuous war zone. Bryson Bort, CEO and founder at SCYTHE, starts his conversations on ICS securit

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