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Hire an OT Security Manager for Industry & Production
Programme leadership for OT security: teams, standards, incidents, and interfaces to IT/CISO
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Bridges plant operations, engineering, and cyber resilience: sets direction, prioritises controls, and keeps hardening, monitoring, and incident readiness workable in OT.
NIST SP 800-82 Rev. 3, the BSI ICS compendium, and ISA/IEC 62443 are the usual references — plus NIS2 expectations where applicable.
At a glance
Role purpose
Sustainable OT security: measurable risk reduction with acceptable impact on production continuity.
Typical ownership
OT security programme, baselines/policies, exercises, alignment with CISO/SOC and OT leadership; escalation on critical findings.
Success metrics (examples)
- • Fewer critical OT findings
- • Roadmap delivery rate
- • Time-to-contain for OT-relevant incidents
Responsibilities in detail
1. OT security strategy and roadmap
Align with IEC 62443, plant reality, and integrator landscape — prioritisation over “do everything at once”.
2. Governance across OT, IT, and leadership
Turn regulatory and internal requirements into workable guardrails for change and remote maintenance.
3. Incident readiness and exercises
OT playbooks; coordination with SOC and maintenance — informed by ENISA Threat Landscape.
Interfaces
Internal
- OT/automation leadership
- CISO/ISO, SOC
- Plant IT, maintenance
External
- OEMs, system integrators
- Auditors, regulators where applicable
IT-only security careers without OT exposure often struggle on the shop floor.
Qualifications
Technical must-haves
- OT security and segmentation concepts
- IEC 62443 / BSI ICS
- Incident and change processes in OT
Personal differentiators
- Credible with OT teams
- Strong documentation and evidence habits
Salary benchmarks (Germany)
Typically above market bands for information security managers with a premium for proven OT ownership.
Hiring challenges
Few leaders combine OT operations nous and security programme ownership (ICS CERT, BSI).
- • Rare OT/security leadership hybrids
- • Expectation of both programme steer and technical credibility
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Hire OT security managers
We validate milestones — segmentation programmes, OT exercises with SOC, audit evidence — not titles alone.
Calibration to your IEC 62443, BSI, or NIS2 target picture before interviews start.