Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
You acquire an industrial business, how much risk did you just buy? Asset owners need to take charge, understand what they purchased, and base decisions on verified data.
Jacob shows you how totie OT cyber risk directly into the buyer’s existing corporate risk matrix and decision-making framework. Rather than another contextless checklist, this process translates OT cyber exposure into the same risk categories executives use for financial and safety decisions.
Ideally you would perform pre-close assessments, but the reality is cyber budgets are rounding errors in billion-dollar deals, no one wants extra diligence bodies, and deal teams care about P&L, not patching. Jacob's proposed model starts immediately post-close without slowing the transaction. It moves cyber risk from a negotiation lever and start showing how to operationalize risk scoring in a way that CFOs, COOs, and CEOs can act on.
The goal is simple: give you a repeatable way to quantify exposure and protect deal value.
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You acquire an industrial business, how much risk did you just buy? Asset owners need to take charge, understand what they purchased, and base decisions on verified data.
Jacob shows you how totie OT cyber risk directly into the buyer’s existing corporate risk matrix and decision-making framework. Rather than another contextless checklist, this process translates OT cyber exposure into the same risk categories executives use for financial and safety decisions.
Ideally you would perform pre-close assessments, but the reality is cyber budgets are rounding errors in billion-dollar deals, no one wants extra diligence bodies, and deal teams care about P&L, not patching. Jacob's proposed model starts immediately post-close without slowing the transaction. It moves cyber risk from a negotiation lever and start showing how to operationalize risk scoring in a way that CFOs, COOs, and CEOs can act on.
The goal is simple: give you a repeatable way to quantify exposure and protect deal value.
Subscribe to Dale’s ICS Security: Friday News & Notes email here:
friday.dale-peterson.com/signup
Check out S4x27. Feb 8 - 11 in Tampa:
s4xevents.com
