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The Plant That Blows Up: OT Security Meets Chemistry

Steve Wilkinson, CTO / Former Professor & Senior Lecturer at Avioxx

14 October 2026 · 36 min

A chartered chemical engineer turned CTO explains how gasification plants turn waste into jet fuel, why OT risk in the chemical industry means explosions and toxic releases rather than data loss, and why cyber security still has no place in the chemical engineering curriculum.

OT SecurityChemical EngineeringProcess SafetyCritical InfrastructureArtificial Intelligence

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