The Day the Control Room Went Silent by Kai London
When the screens freeze and the plant keeps running blind, the crisis has already begun. The Day the Control Room Went Silent is the wake-up call for every CISO, OT leader, plant manager and board: rethink SCADA security before the next attack. See it. Trust it. Hand it back. Prove it.
Available on Amazon in Kindle, paperback and hardcover editions.
By the end of this book you will be able to:
See the OT estate as attackers do
Map SCADA, PLCs, HMIs and the IT/OT boundary — and the paths from a phished laptop to a physical process.
Trust your telemetry again
Detect manipulation of sensor data and operator displays so the control room sees what the plant is actually doing.
Hand control back safely
Run manual-operations fallback and staged recovery so production restarts without reinfecting the estate.
Prove the controls held
Evidence segmentation, monitoring and response to regulators and insurers — IEC 62443, NIS2 and CNI obligations.
Unite IT, OT and the plant floor
End the turf war: one operating doctrine for CISO, OT leader and plant manager with clear authority when seconds count.
Put OT risk on the board agenda
Translate downtime, safety and environmental exposure into enterprise risk the board can fund and govern.
See it. Trust it. Hand it back. Prove it.
About the author
Professor Kai London — CISSP, CISM.
An internationally recognised cybersecurity executive, board advisor and Founder & CEO of Quantum AI Systems Security LLC, writing at the convergence of AI, governance and operational resilience. Honorary Professor and Researcher at UCL.