Abhinav Roy

Speaking

Talks

I speak about security operations for industrial sites: what attacks on plants look like in practice, how to detect and respond without hurting the process, and what AI changes on both sides. Always in a personal capacity, never on behalf of an employer or a vendor.

Upcoming

Past

Topics

When cyber turns physical

What attacks on industrial systems actually do to a process, and why OT security is a safety problem before it is a data problem.

Detection that lasts

Why OT detections decay as plants change, and how to run detection engineering as a living practice instead of a one-time project.

AI on both sides

How attackers use AI against critical infrastructure, and how a security operations team can use it to cut toil without trusting it blindly.

For organisers

Short bio

Abhinav Roy is General Manager of Cybersecurity Managed Security Services at Schneider Electric, where he leads 24×7 security operations for critical infrastructure, energy and manufacturing customers across India, Europe and the US. A former instrumentation engineer with ten years in security operations, he writes Industrial Cyber Brief, a free daily briefing on OT threats, and speaks on detection, response and AI in industrial environments.

Long bio

Abhinav Roy is an OT/ICS security operations leader based in Bangalore and General Manager of Cybersecurity Managed Security Services at Schneider Electric. He leads a practice that monitors power, water and manufacturing sites around the clock, with a team he grew from eight to thirty people across India, Europe and the US. Trained as an electronics and instrumentation engineer, he moved from identity and access management at Genpact into security operations, threat hunting in HSBC's global SOC and managed detection and response at EY, and has spent the last four years in OT/ICS security operations. His team has built more than 230 custom OT detections aligned to MITRE ATT&CK for ICS and IEC 62443. In his own time he builds and edits Industrial Cyber Brief, a free daily briefing on industrial cyber threats. He was named Enterprise Security Champion at The Economic Times Enterprise Security Awards 2026 and Security Transformation Leader of the Year at the Future Tech Summit & Awards 2026. He holds the CISM and ISA/IEC 62443 Cybersecurity Fundamentals Specialist certifications, and speaks in a personal capacity.