Operational Technology Risk Consultant

Role Purpose

To identify, quantify, and translate Operational Technology (OT) cyber risk into operational, financial, and insurability outcomes across industrial, manufacturing, energy, infrastructure, and other OT-dependent sectors. This role sits at the intersection of plant operations, executive risk governance, and insurance placement, enabling clients to understand "Operational Disruption × Financial Impact × Policy Response". The consultant applies pattern-based OT governance and architecture assessment (CORA-OT), improved BI severity modelling, and underwriting-aligned analysis to support improved placement outcomes and targeted resilience improvements.

Core Responsibilities

• Lead and deliver OT governance and architecture baseline assessments
• OT accountability models
• Segmentation & connectivity patterns
• Vendor and remote access pathways
• Multi-site aggregation and dependency exposures
• Identify "insurance-sensitive" control gaps that materially influence: downtime severity, loss aggregation, underwriting defensibility
• Produce standardised OT diagnostic outputs that can be embedded into client placement, risk engineering reviews, and BI modelling.

Exposure Quantification & Severity Modelling

• Work closely with financial modelling teams to integrate OT-specific: business interruption (BI) pathways, contingency dependencies, multi-site escalation patterns, cyber-triggered property damage / PD-BI interactions.
• Support improved CIA-based modelling of OT-driven operational loss, enabling clearer limit adequacy discussions.

Client Advisory & Resilience Development

• Support clients in integrating OT into: incident response, crisis governance, business continuity plans.
• Run OT-specific disruption tabletop exercises (aligned to CRR-OT).
• Provide practical, operations-sensitive recommendations that strengthen clients' defensibility without over-engineering.

Integration With Broking, Property, and Risk Engineering

• Partner with property risk engineers to: reflect cyber-physical pathways in risk engineering outputs, incorporate OT failure modes into resilience roadmaps, reinforce the distinction between cyber and physical damage mechanisms.
• Support pre-placement, renewal, and strategic client conversations with clear OT-risk framing.

Thought Leadership & Practice Development

• Contribute to the refinement of CORA-OT and CRR-OT methodologies.
• Develop internal "OT Red Flag" materials for brokers and account teams.
• Participate in sector-specific campaigns (e.g., supervised manufacturing, F&B, pharma).
• Produce market insights, white papers, and insurer-facing perspectives on OT risk trends.

Required Skills & Experience

Technical & Domain Expertise

• Practical OT / IC understanding, including: SCADA, PLC, DCS, BMS, historian systems, plant-floor segmentation patterns, safety vs. security architectural trade-offs.
• Familiarity with: IEC 62443 principles (governance & architecture focus), NIST 800-82, industrial vendor ecosystems and support models.
• Experience evaluating architecture patterns—not deep configuration testing.

Data Center & Built-environment Literacy

• Ideally we are looking for familiarity with: data-center build principles, redundancy models (N+1, 2N, etc.), uptime tiering concepts.
• Ability to converse credibly with: engineers, facilities teams, operations leaders.

Risk, Insurance & Consulting Skills

• Ability to translate OT technical patterns into: downtime duration, BI exposure aggregation, risk underwriting impact.
• Strong client communication and storytelling: concise, board-ready articulation of OT exposure, clear linkage to financial outcomes.
• Comfortable working across engineering, operations, cyber, and risk domains.

Useful Backgrounds

• OT cyber consultant within industrial/ICS sectors.
• Cyber or operations engineer within manufacturing, energy, utilities, or sophisticated infrastructure.
• Risk consultant with exposure to OT-dependent operational environments.
• Prior experience working alongside non-IT engineers or plant operations teams.

Certifications

• CISSP, CISM, CRISC
• IEC 62443 foundation-level training
• ISO 27001 or NIST experience in operational contexts
• Safety or reliability engineering exposure (effective)

Measures of Success

• CORA-OT diagnostic adopted systematically across client engagements.
• Stronger insurer confidence in client OT control maturity and segmentation.
• Clearer exposure articulation leading to improved placement outcomes.
• OT risk narratives embedded in BI limit adequacy and PD/BI discussions.
• Increased pull-through of resilience, modelling, and advisory work.
• Strong cross-team collaboration with broking, risk engineering, and modelling.

Commercial Value of the Role

This role directly advances the "Find, Flatten, Finance Operational Technology Cyber Risk" strategy by:

• Finding: identifying the governance and architecture patterns driving severity.
• Flattening: clarifying and reducing operational and financial exposure.
• Financing: enabling better placement outcomes and more defensible underwriting narratives.

It uniquely differentiates the firm from:

• engineering-led OT security firms (too technical)
• cyber-only consultancies (too abstract)

The result: a scalable, pattern-based OT advisory capability that elevates placement, improves client decisions, and embeds OT into enterprise risk governance.