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Robert M. Lee

The Industrial Control Defender

Dragos, and the analysis of the Ukraine grid attacks

Rating

83Impact score
Technical depth90
Defensive craft95
Research90
Influence85
FromUSA
Era2013–present

Domains

ICS/OT securityThreat intelligenceIncident response

Scouting report

A former US Air Force cyber warfare officer who co-authored the analysis of the 2015 Ukrainian power grid attack and the later CRASHOVERRIDE and TRISIS malware, then founded Dragos to do industrial control system defence as a specialism rather than an IT afterthought. Co-wrote the SANS ICS courses that most OT defenders come through.

Curator’s note

The set’s reminder that some networks fail into a physical consequence.

Portrait

Painted from a photograph of Robert M. Lee by World Economic Forum, licensed CC BY 3.0.