Digital Pulse by Jacobs - IT & OT Cybersecurity

Digital Pulse is back🔥

Following a successful launch in January, we’re diving straight into IT & OT Cybersecurity. As digital and operational environments become increasingly interconnected from corporate networks to energy grids and manufacturing floors the need to secure both worlds is more critical than ever.

When OT is compromised, the impact goes beyond data. It can mean downtime, operational disruption, safety considerations, or compliance challenges.
Securing these environments while keeping everything running safely and reliably isn’t always straightforward and that’s exactly where the conversation begins.

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📅May 14
📍Jacobs office, M. Konopnickiej 31, Kraków

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🎤Agenda

18:00 Registration
Come in, grab a drink and catch the puls.
18:30 - 18:45 Welcome & introduction by Adam Jakubski

18:45 - 19:15 Deepfake, AI and the human factor: the latest threats and practical ways to protect against manipulation by Anna Pieczątkowska
AI is transforming social engineering, making deepfakes, voice cloning and AI-powered phishing faster, cheaper and more convincing than ever. This session explores how criminals use AI-enabled manipulation to exploit trust, influence employees and gain access to money, data or systems. Through real-world examples, we will look at practical ways to recognize warning signs, build stronger verification habits and train people beyond traditional IT-focused awareness. The session will show how organizations can manage human risk in the age of AI with clearer rules, smarter processes and a culture of digital trust, helping teams stay calm, curious and cyber sharp.

19:15 - 19:20 break

19:20 - 19:50 OT CYBERSECURITY GRC: A Practical Guide to Governing, Prioritizing, and Proving Security in Industrial Environments by Stephen Omowumi
Operational Technology is at a turning point, with rising cyber threats, AI-driven attacks and growing attention from regulators and business leaders making traditional, engineer-led approaches no longer enough. This session explores how Engineering, OT Cybersecurity and GRC come together as a sign of true OT maturity in 2026: Engineering owns reliability and safety, OT Cybersecurity defines protection, and GRC integrates cyber risk into the full OT risk lifecycle — from understanding and prioritizing risk to proving assurance. Drawing on work in Water, Power and Advanced Manufacturing, the session shows how GRC brings OT cyber risk into enterprise decision-making, enabling smarter investment, clearer accountability and long-term resilience.

19:50 - 20:05 Networking break

20:05 - 20:35 When Prevention Fails: Consequence‑Driven, Cyber‑Informed Engineering as the Last Line of Defense by Filip Szymanowski
Cybersecurity in OT and critical infrastructure cannot rely only on prevention and detection, as compromise is often a matter of when, not if. This session introduces Consequence‑Driven, Cyber‑Informed Engineering (CCE) as a practical, engineering‑focused framework for identifying high‑consequence scenarios, mapping cyber pathways to physical effects and designing controls that prevent or contain catastrophic outcomes - protecting people, operations, the environment and public trust even when cyber defenses fail.

20:35 - 20:40 Quiz with prizes
20:40 - 21:30 Networking
🍕 It's pizza time!

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💡Speakers
Anna Pieczątkowska, cybersecurity professional, psychologist, AI enthusiast and founder of Cyber Aperitivo, where she makes the human side of cybersecurity and AI feel practical, sharp and surprisingly relatable. She explores how people make decisions under pressure, especially when trust is manipulated through social engineering, deepfakes, AI-enabled phishing and other emerging tactics. Her work helps technical and non-technical audiences understand human risk, build better security habits and stay cyber sharp in the age of AI.

Stephen Omowumi, OT Cybersecurity Senior GRC Analyst at Jacobs
Stephen has over 10 years of IT experience and 7 years in cybersecurity, with a focus on Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC), cybersecurity auditing, risk management and regulatory compliance. He works with frameworks such as ISO/IEC 27001, NIST CSF, NIST RMF, MITRE ATT&CK, SOC 2, GDPR and IEC 62443. He also integrates AI considerations into cybersecurity practices to improve threat detection, automation and decision-making. His growing focus is OT cybersecurity in water systems, power and energy infrastructure and advanced manufacturing, where he applies GRC principles to strengthen resilience, safety and IT/OT convergence.

Filip Szymanowski, Senior OT Cybersecurity Engineer at Jacobs
Filip has over 13 years of experience in industrial automation, OT networks and cybersecurity. Strong background in designing, implementing, programming, integrating maintaining and troubleshooting control systems. In recent years, he has been working on securing critical infrastructure and bridging the gap between OT and IT.