Former DHS cyber insurance official: A new risk modeling working group should focus on threats to Operational Technology

The Cyberspace Solarium Commission proposal for a Department of Homeland Security-led working group on risk modeling could be a vehicle for focusing on risk management around Operational Technology and the role of cyber insurance, according to Tom Finan, a former DHS cybersecurity official now with insurance broker Willis Towers Watson.

The Solarium Commission report cites the work several years ago of the Cyber Incident Data and Analysis Working Group that Finan led at DHS, and calls for identifying areas of...