Rob Labbé

Reference Architecture

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Building a Common OT Architecture for a Diverse Mining Industry

Mining operations are becoming more connected, more automated and more dependent on digital systems. Autonomous equipment, private LTE and 5G networks, remote operations centres, cloud analytics and AI-enabled maintenance are increasingly part of...

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CCMIN and MM-ISAC Forge Strategic Cybersecurity Partnership for the Mining Industry

Orlando, September 20, 2025 — The Latin American Corporation for Cybersecurity in Mining (CCMIN) and the Mining and Metals Information Sharing and...

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Thoughts on MM-ISAC's 2025 Annual Conference

Now that I've returned home from MM-ISAC's Annual conference and have caught up a bit, I wanted to share my thoughts on this year's conference.

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MM-ISAC Annual Awards and Board Appointments

Every year, MM-ISAC recognizes member companies and individuals who go above and beyond to support its mission to improve cyber resilience in the...

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Effective Incident Response Starts Long Before the Incident

Cyber incident response is often viewed as a technical domain, with practitioners skilled in malware reverse engineering, network and host forensics,...

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Moving to Security Cost as a Metric

I’ve talked about security cost as the key metric to report on your security program when working with executives and the board. What we have not...

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Phishing Education - Maybe 'Best Practice' is not Best After all

As security practitioners and leaders, we must contribute to the professionalization of our field by searching out data and evidence-based solutions...

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Precision vs Accuracy When Predicting Security Cost

As I talk through the practical application of the security cost framework with our members, we are consistently running into a common stumbling...

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Building a Phishing Program

Phishing is a significant compromise vector for all companies in all industries. At theMining and Metals ISAC annual conference in November, we...

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Digging Into Security Cost

After my last post on using Security Cost as a metric and the basis for a core security team/CISO objective, a few Mining and Metals ISAC members...

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