A working forum for rail cybersecurity
Welcome to Cyber Senate
CyberSenate brings together the people responsible for securing rail systems — operators, infrastructure leaders, and suppliers working across complex, long-lifecycle environments.
The focus is simple: how cybersecurity works in practice.
Not frameworks in isolation, but how systems are actually protected, monitored, and recovered when things go wrong — across networks, control systems, and supplier ecosystems.
Built around real-world rail operations
Rail systems don’t fail in theory — they fail in live environments, under pressure, across interconnected systems and suppliers.
CyberSenate exists to reflect that reality.
Discussions focus on operational systems, incident response, supplier integration, and the day-to-day challenges of keeping rail services running safely and securely.
Core areas of focus
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Securing operational rail systems
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Managing risk across supplier ecosystems
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Responding to incidents under real-world constraints
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Bridging IT and OT in long-lifecycle environments
From the Summits
Selected moments and discussions from recent Rail Cybersecurity Summits.
Security Monitoring Cloud Infrastructure Webinar and Podcast
Cloud computing technology is a key business driver, enabling the sharing of railway information resources, improving the capacity of information processing. However, cloud security monitoring remains a barrier to the full realisation of Cloud’s capability.
Cyber Senate Peer to Peer Network attracts key stakeholders across the critical infrastructure sector
The Cyber Senate are providing a 365 day a year Peer to Peer B2B network for those who have attended and presented at our events for the past 6 years. We are also accepting key subject matter experts that have official requirements to engage with asset owners to ensure public health and safety.
Rail Cyber Security Report
Cyber Senate are providing the Rail Cyber Security Report free during the Coronavirus crisis to all Rail Cyber Security community members. Contact marketing@cybersenate.com to ask for access.
Technology drives innovation in Buildings Post COVID19
What will the buildings sector look like post coronavirus? How can we utilise innovation to ensure business continuity and better define resilience? As the sector looks at how post-COVID19 digital retrofits will be implemented and financed, now is the time for the C Suite to not lose sight of the fundamentals of cybersecurity by design. New technology deployments will need to be more secure than ever and getting C level buy-in will be paramount.
Selecting and Safely Using Collaboration Services for Telework
Selecting and Safely Using Collaboration Services for Telework.
During a global pandemic or other crisis contingency scenarios, many United States Government (USG) personnel must operate from home while continuing to perform critical national functions and support continuity of government services. With limited access to government-furnished equipment (GFE) such as laptops and secure smartphones, the use of (not typically approved) commercial collaboration services on personal devices for limited government official use becomes necessary and unavoidable.
Cyber Senate launches new Directors Clubs post Coronavirus lockdown
Cyber Senate today announced the launch of the Directors Clubs©, that will commence once lockdown has ended and the government give the all-clear for a minimum of twenty people to meet at any one time in the UK, Europe and North America.
Risk Management for Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)
This product is for executives to help them think through physical, supply chain, and cybersecurity issues that may arise from the spread of Novel Coronavirus, or COVID-19. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), COVID-19 has been detected in locations around the world, including multiple areas throughout the U.S. This is a rapidly evolving situation and for more information, visit the CDC’s COVID-19 Situation Summary
https://www.cisa.gov/publication/cisa-insights-publications
“Cyberattack on the nation’s critical infrastructure and economic system would create chaos “
“A major cyberattack on the nation’s critical infrastructure and economic system would create chaos and lasting damage exceeding that wreaked by fires in California, floods in the Midwest, and hurricanes in the Southeast.” As stated in the Chairman’s Opening Letter in a new report from the Cyberspace Solarium Commission. “Our country is at risk, not only from a catastrophic cyberattack but from millions of daily intrusions disrupting everything from financial transactions to the inner workings of our electoral system. Capturing the complexity of this challenge is hard.”
Expanding beyond cybersecurity
Some of the challenges facing rail systems sit beyond cybersecurity — in supplier ecosystems, system integration, and operational accountability.
These are addressed through the Operational Risk Council (ORC).
Rail Supply Chain Forum
A focused forum examining supplier ecosystems, integration risk, and long-lifecycle system accountability in rail environments.
👉 ben.reed@operationalriskcouncil.com