// Operator file

I work where the
network meets the real world.

I spend my days programming radios that first responders depend on when everything else has failed. That work taught me something most cybersecurity people learn from a textbook: in operational technology, downtime isn't an inconvenience — it's a body count.

For three years I've been studying ICS/OT security as a discipline — the protocols, the threat actors, the chronic under-investment in visibility across critical infrastructure. I recently completed The Washington Center's Cybersecurity Accelerator, where I narrowed my focus to industrial control systems and the specific challenge of defending environments that were never designed to be defended.

Dead Reckoning exists because the ICS/OT security conversation happens mostly behind closed doors — in vendor briefings, NDAs, and language inaccessible to the technicians who actually run these systems. I'm building this in public. Documenting what I learn, analyzing what I find, and calling out what the industry gets wrong.

I don't have a decade of SCADA experience. What I have is a technician's instinct for how these systems actually behave, and a researcher's eye for where they break. That combination is rarer than it sounds.

// Background
Telecom Technician
Mission-critical radio systems
First responder communications
TWC
The Washington Center
Cybersecurity Program
ICS / OT Focus
3 years independent study
Critical infrastructure defense
// Research focus
  • Threat actor tracking — APT groups targeting energy infrastructure
  • Vulnerability analysis — CVEs in energy sector ICS products
  • Protocol security — DNP3, Modbus, IEC 61850 and how they break
// Contact

For tips, collaboration, or to tell me I'm wrong —
reach out at https://www.linkedin.com/in/bsuar/

// Currently Transitioning into ICS/OT security full-time. Open to research collaborations, guest posts, and entry-level opportunities in critical infrastructure defense.