Sean McBride

Oct 17, 2024 | automation.com | Sean McBride

Industry, government and academia embarked on a three-year research project to create a consensus-based OT security body of knowledge. As organizations mature their operational technology (OT) security approach, they tend to move from a focus on technology to a focus on building a program to, finally, building a workforce that can run the program and operate the technology. This natural progression has been described as the “Industrial Cybersecurity Awakening Model” (Figure 1).

Sep 27, 2024 | healthaffairs.org | Sean McBride |Barak D. Richman |Carmel Shachar

The statutes, regulations, guidance, policy documents, and manuals that govern how hospitals and their employed physicians interface with the US government are multitudinous, complex, and oftentimes difficult to decipher. Hospital general counsels are typically tasked with translating the tomes issued by administrative agencies to ensure that their employers—the health system and its associated physician staff—understand their legal liabilities.

Jul 3, 2024 | automation.com | Sean McBride

The ISA Global Cybersecurity Alliance has released the Curricular Guidance: Industrial Cybersecurity Knowledge document. Cybersecurity events such as Volt Typhoon and a wave of ransomware attacks have drawn unprecedented attention to the need for cybersecurity in industrial control system environments. At a fundamental level, the solution depends on developing qualified and prepared professionals capable of operating seamlessly in cybersecurity and engineering, IT and OT.

Jun 12, 2024 | jamanetwork.com | John Cuaron |Sean McBride |Fumiko Chino |Dhwani Parikh

Key PointsQuestion  How do patients receiving radiation oncology care with fully remote physician management rate their satisfaction with this option, and what are the associated safety events, financial implications, and environmental consequences? Findings  In this cohort study of 2817 patients, more than 99% of safety events did not reach patients or caused no harm to patients and 98% of patient ratings of satisfaction with fully remote management were good to very good.