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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.

EVENTS

PODCASTS

WEBINARS

Ayman Al Issa Industrial Cybersecurity Lead and Senior Expert @ McKinsey and Company

By |September 25th, 2020|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , |

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

By |September 23rd, 2020|Categories: Uncategorized|

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.

Rolling Stock Data Center Cyber Security

By |September 1st, 2020|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: , , |

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

By |August 4th, 2020|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

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.

Contact Info

IoE Events Ltd, 57 Windmill Street, Gravesend, Kent, DA12 1BB

Phone: UK +44 (0)20 7096 5081

Web: Cyber Senate & IoE Events Ltd.

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