Gerard Israel
Critical Infrastructure & OT

Security where a failure is physical.

From automated pharmacy fulfillment to a greenfield industrial build.

This is the edge of my work: systems where a security failure does not leak a file, it stops something essential or puts a person at risk. In automated pharmacy fulfillment, I built a quantitative risk framework for the robotics, weighing likelihood of compromise, operational impact, and patient safety, and drove remediation on critical vulnerabilities across automation and vendor-managed devices using device authentication, zero trust, and micro-segmentation.

On a greenfield industrial venture, I designed the operational-technology and industrial cybersecurity approach from the first decision, so the risks that normally surface late, insecure controls, unmanaged devices, supply-chain gaps, were engineered out up front. The throughline across both is consequence-driven and upstream: secure the system before it is built, because it will run for years and the failure mode is physical.

Details of the industrial venture are confidential and intentionally omitted.
Proof

What it produced

Robotics risk
Quantitative framework weighing patient safety
Zero trust + OT
Device authentication and micro-segmentation
Greenfield
Industrial OT security designed from day one
Consequence-driven
Built for physical-world impact
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Security leadership roles, advisory work, or a conversation about protecting the systems that can't fail.