Matt Malone is an industrial control system and operational technology (ICS/OT) cybersecurity consultant at Yokogawa. After graduating from Texas A&M Univ., Malone embarked on his eight-year career in the U.S. Navy as a salvage diver and bomb disposal technician. He completed three overseas deployments, two of which were combat deployments. He returned home to Texas to begin a career in sales before transitioning to project management. As a project manager, he caught the cybersecurity bug and changed his master’s thesis to address the current state of industrial cybersecurity in North America. He has since devoted his career to learning everything possible about how to secure ICSs against cyberattacks. Malone joined Yokogawa in April 2020 and earned his Global Industrial Cyber Security Professional (GICSP) certification soon after.