Closing the Gap on Securing Energy Sector Control Systems [Guest editors' introduction]

Control system operations staff are highly specialized. They're a healthy mix of deep, narrow experts--power engineers and petroleum engineers, for example--and less educated technicians who slowly evolve from field workers to supervisors. For an industry in which 50-year-old equipment remains commonplace, cybersecurity is a brand new requirement, and there's a shortage of qualified expertise available to address it. It will be up to our community to bridge the gap.