In 2021, the industrial community attracted high-profile attention. Major cybersecurity incidents struck industrial organizations in a range of sectors, with international headlines detailing everything from a compromise of a water treatment facility with intent to poison its community to a ransomware attack against a pipeline operator that disrupted gas supplies to the southeast United States.

These reports underscored the potential devastating outcomes a security breach of critical infrastructure could have on communities and a country's economy. They also elevated the discussion the ICS/OT* community has been having for years on cyber readiness and brought them to the proverbial kitchen table—and the policymakers' and regulators' office desks, too.