Operational resilience is the new cybersecurity
Welcome to Cyber Senate
Cyber Senate brings together the leaders responsible for ensuring the systems our world depends on remain safe, resilient, and operational — even when disrupted by cyber incidents, system failures, or unpredictable AI behaviour.
As AI, automation, and digitalisation transform industrial operations, our focus is shifting with the industry itself:
from pure cybersecurity to operational resilience.
We sit at the intersection of AI Safety, Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) Protection, OT Security, and Industrial Reliability, helping organisations prepare not only to prevent disruptions, but to detect them faster, respond decisively, recover quickly, and maintain continuity of service.
For more than a decade, Cyber Senate has convened operators, engineers, safety leaders, and security professionals across rail, energy, aviation, water, manufacturing, transport, mining, and other mission-critical sectors.
Today, our mission expands to address the new realities of an AI-enabled industrial environment — where safety, reliability, and resilience are inseparable.
Our Mission
To strengthen the resilience, safety, and reliability of AI-driven, cyber-physical environments.
We provide trusted cross-sector forums where operators, regulators, technology providers, and assurance leaders share practical insight on maintaining safe and dependable operations under increasingly complex, interconnected, and adversarial conditions.
Our Focus
AI Safety & Assurance
Ensuring AI systems behave safely, predictably, and transparently in high-consequence environments — and understanding how AI failures or adversarial manipulation can impact physical operations.
Cyber-Physical Resilience
Protecting interconnected industrial systems and ensuring they continue to operate during — not just before or after — cyber incidents, disruptions, or system failures.
OT Safety, Reliability, and Continuity
Maintaining stable, safe industrial processes through rapid detection, response, and recovery across distributed, legacy, and modernised OT environments.
Digital Transformation & Safety Engineering
Examining how automation, robotics, digital twins, and remote operations reshape engineering risk, operational resilience, and safety assurance.
Join the Community
Cyber Senate is part of a broader resilience ecosystem.
As operational resilience increasingly depends on both physical systems and digital foundations like identity, cloud, data integrity, and AI, we launched TechOps Senate — a sister brand dedicated to these digital and public-sector environments.
Together, Cyber Senate and TechOps Senate bring together the engineering, security, operations, and digital leaders who keep society’s most important services running safely and reliably.
TechOps Senate brings together leaders across operations, engineering, data, and resilience to strengthen the systems the world relies on.
Our mission is to help critical industries achieve uptime, stability, and resilience in an era of rapid digital and operational change.
Through highly focused virtual forums, we connect decision-makers with the insights, tools, and strategies needed to keep mission-critical operations performing under pressure..
TechOps Senate is an extension of Cyber Senate, created to address the growing need for AI, cloud, and DataOps resilience across mission-critical infrastructure through targeted virtual events — and to serve as a catalyst for future live event launches.
Ayman Al Issa Industrial Cybersecurity Lead and Senior Expert @ McKinsey and Company
“Cloud for the OT environment: Being realistic about what is possible.” He will also run a workshop for Cyber Senate attendees “Workshop 'Designing a Secure Reference Architecture for Plant Operations and Maintenance.”
Agile OT Security for Evolving Energy Networks discussed by National Grid this November
Philip Tonkin has worked in the energy business for over 20 years, working in a wide range of disciplines. From field engineering to senior leadership positions, he has always been passionate about solving the challenges of digitising the energy supply industry. Using an understanding of the systems used by the industry along with experience in making decisions as an asset manager, he has led a number of key projects to move forward the understanding of cyber threat.
Now as the OT leader within National Grid’s security team his focus is securing the operational technology that underpins the operation of National Grid’s trans atlantic businesses, from Gas Transmission to Electricity Generation.
OT Security: Adopting and the Value of Defense in Depth
OT Security: Adopting and the Value of Defense in Depth with Cyber Senate and Sellafield Ltd
Geopolitics of Cybersecurity Presentation: Implications for the Supply Chain ICS Europe Nov 3/4
Technological Turning Points
The Making of Cyberspace
Growing Geopolitical Conflict
Cybersecurity on the Trade Battleground
Decoupling of Digital Economies
The Democratization of Innovation Power
Cyber Warfare to Information Warfare
Intelligent Battlefield
The Rise of Digital Disorder
Supply Chain Implications
The Evolution of OT Systems Management discussed with Cyber Senate
Organizations should embrace the concept of OT Systems Management (paralleling ITSM practices) within the unique environments of operating systems. Achieving [...]
Cyber Senate Rail Cybersecurity USA conference welcomes WMATA
Kyle Malo is Senior Director of Cybersecurity and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority [...]
Rolling Stock Data Center Cyber Security
Rolling Stock Data Center Cyber Security Webinar, join us to hear more! The Rail Cyber Security Summit Europe takes place again in February 2021, and the US Rail Cyber Security event will take place January 2021. All our webinar will support the topics of these future engagements!
Cyber Senate 7th Annual Industrial Control Cyber Security Europe announces new speakers for 2020
Cyber Senate 7th Annual Industrial Control Cybersecurity Europe Conference November 3rd and 4th 2020 announces Sellafield, Alstom, Maersk, National Grid, Rosen Group, Hellenic American University as initial presenters representing nuclear, smart grid, logistics, rail and maritime sectors.

























