Cybersecurity Leadership Dinner:

Navigating OT Resilience: A Private Roundtable Dinner for OT Professionals

We invite you to a private dinner and peer-to-peer discussion, hosted in partnership with SimSpace, to evaluate the effectiveness of different range strategies. We will examine the practical trade-offs between “Do-It-Yourself” builds and purpose-built platforms, specifically focusing on the “scalability wall” many organizations eventually hit.

Discussion Focus: The Role and Reach of the Modern Range

The convergence of OT and traditional IT is accelerating cyberattacks against critical infrastructure. In response, cyber ranges have evolved from niche tools into force multipliers for validating system-wide baselines and understanding how cyber disruptions, including AI-driven threats, translate into physical impact. As organizations mature, the debate shifts to whether in-house capabilities are enough or if modern threats require a more robust, high-fidelity alternative.

This is a candid exchange among peers, not a sales pitch. Our objective is to share “lessons learned” on reducing operational risk, modeling cascading failures, and maximizing the ROI of your organization’s cyber spend.

We will be covering:

Agility vs. Stagnation: The challenge of iterating DIY environments quickly enough to match evolving threats compared to platforms designed for rapid updates.

Accessibility and Personnel Risk: Addressing the limitations of “user-unfriendly” ranges that lack remote access or rely on a small handful of specialists to operate.

Technical Barriers to Scale: The difficulty of provisioning enough Virtual Machines (VMs) to create a high-fidelity replica of complex, integrated networks.

Beyond Testing: How to move from static simulations to dynamic environments that include Hardware-in-the-Loop (HWIL) and integrated training for mission preparedness.

Changing the Game: How scalable cyber ranges are assisting in the adoption of AI technologies (and what that means for OT as a whole).

Jason Rivera

Field CISO & Head of Solution Engineering

To guide this discussion, the evening will be hosted by Jason Rivera, Field CISO at SimSpace. Jason brings extensive experience across government, military, and private-sector cybersecurity operations. Prior to joining SimSpace, he served in roles with the National Security Agency (NSA), the U.S. Army, CrowdStrike, and Deloitte, where he focused on protecting mission-critical systems and advancing cyber defense capabilities.

Drawing on his experience working with both government and commercial organizations, Jason will share how infrastructure operators are approaching the challenge of validating resilience against increasingly sophisticated and AI-enabled adversaries.