Critical infrastructure faces increasingly sophisticated cyber threats from AI-enabled nation-state & organized criminal groups. From water systems to energy and manufacturing, attackers are targeting operational technology (OT) environments where breaches can disrupt essential services.
Join SimSpace Global Field CISO Jason Rivera (former USCYBERCOM, former CrowdStrike) and SimSpace Global Director of Solution Engineering, Peter Chuzie, for an expert briefing on emerging OT threats, including tactics used by nation-states and other sophisticated factors.
Then, see how SimSpace AI Proving Grounds—your “What-If Machine”— enables organizations to validate, operationalize, and build AI-powered defenses by simulating real-world attacks and testing security tools, AI agents, and human defenders in realistic, isolated OT environments.
What To Expect
Nation-state and other sophisticated threat actors are increasingly exploiting vulnerabilities in internet-facing PLCs, SCADA systems, and interconnected IT/OT environments. AI is accelerating these threats through faster vulnerability research, more convincing identity fabrication, and rapid attack-tool development.
You’ll hear a threat briefing examining real-world attacks on critical infrastructure, including nation-state linked compromises of U.S. water-system controllers, telecom systems, and the tactics adversaries use to target industrial environments.
Then, see firsthand how to stress-test your IT/OT SOC against sophisticated threats through live adversary simulations in SimSpace AI Proving Grounds—exposing detection gaps and validating operational readiness without putting production systems at risk.
What You’ll Learn
Understand Emerging IT→OT Threats
Explore real-world attack techniques targeting critical infrastructure, including water, energy, and industrial control systems.
Simulate Real-World Attacks Safely
See how realistic digital replicas of OT environments enable teams to emulate sophisticated adversary attacks without putting production systems at risk.
Validate Defenses Before Disruption
Discover how to test security tools, AI agents, and human operators together to uncover detection gaps, improve response readiness, and move toward preemptive cyber defense.
Jason Rivera
Global Field CISO and Chief Evangelist
Jason Rivera is a U.S. military veteran and cybersecurity leader with 19+ years of experience across threat intel, SOC modernization, offensive security, and AI-enabled cyber operations.
He has built and matured security programs for regulated enterprises, including a fortune 100 bank, a Fortune 50 oil & gas company, and many Fortune 2000 and gov entities. His work spans adversary emulation, threat hunting, ransomware readiness, executive cyber risk translation, and intelligence-driven defense.
At CrowdStrike, Jason helped enterprise customers and large banks to strengthen detection, response, and threat intelligence against sophisticated adversaries.
As Field CISO and Chief Evangelist at SimSpace, he focuses on cyber ranges, real-world simulations, and agentic AI workflows that help financial institutions validate resilience and prepare for high-consequence cyber events.
