Six years ago, ICS Arabia was launched with a single goal: to provide high-quality, professional education for the Industrial Control Systems (ICS) and Operational Technology (OT) cybersecurity community. Today, we celebrate a major milestone in our journey from a specialized technical project to a global educational resource.
📈 The Journey in Numbers
Over the past 6 years, ICS Arabia has grown from a foundational library into an industry-leading technical resource. Our 2024-2025 growth trajectory has been nothing short of exponential.
- Total Episodes: 71
- Total Views: 45,944+
- Total Watch Time: 2,633+ Hours
- Total Global Impressions: 568,983+
🌍 Global Impact & Language Strategy
To ensure that our content reaches both the international expert community and our regional professionals, we maintain a strategic bilingual approach.
- English Episodes: 51 (72%) — Engaging the global OT security community.
- Arabic Episodes: 20 (28%) — Providing specialized access for the Middle Eastern workforce.
A Comprehensive Technical Curriculum
Our library of 71 episodes is organized into 10 key educational pillars, ensuring that OT professionals have a 360-degree learning path:
🏗️ Pillar 1: Foundations & Architecture
- My interview with SCADAhacker
- OT 101
- What Does OT Really Mean?
- IT/OT Convergence
- The Iceberg of OT Cybersecurity
- Conversations on OT Cybersecurity with Anton Shipullin
- My interview with Shodan’s founder
- My interview with ICS Village in Kuwait
🧪 Pillar 2: Lab & Testbed
- Hands-On ICS/OT Testbeds
- Labshock
- How to build a cybersecurity lab for ICS/OT
🔎 Pillar 3: Risk Assessment & Visibility
- Interview with Sinclair Koelemij
- OT Risk Management
- OT Security Posture & Attack Path Analysis
- OT Project Estimation Made Simple
- PLC Scanning: Safe Practice or Security Risk?
- Exploring ICSRank: Review and Demo with Mike Holcomb
🔓 Pillar 4: Open Source
- Engineering OT Security: ISA Standards & Open Source in Action
- Open Source Zero Trust
🛡️ Pillar 5: Offensive Security (Red Teaming)
- FAT/SAT for ICS/OT: Break Early, Build Secure
- OT Red Team
- OT Penetration Testing
- First-Time SCADA Penetration Testing
- Is PLC Remote Mode Secure? Mike Holcomb Breaks It Down
- SCADA Hacking & Defense deep dive
🚀 Pillar 6: Engineering & Emerging Tech
- TrueOT Team
- Secure Deployment in OT
- AI & IIoT in OT Environments: Real-World Challenges
- Digital Twins in ICS/OT
- AI & Cloud in OT Security: A Game-Changer or a Risk?
📜 Pillar 7: Standards & Compliance
- Demystifying ISA/IEC 62443 with Khalid Ansari
- Inside ISA/IEC 62443
- 5 ICS Critical Controls
🚨 Pillar 8: Defensive Ops & Incident Response
- OT Incident Response Explained
- OT/ICS Network Defense w/ Shaker Hashlan
- OT DFIR Uncovered: PLC Forensics, Tools, and Lessons from the Field
- Disaster Recovery in OT with Saltanat Mashirova
- My interview with Naser Aldossary (ICS Incident Responder)
- OT/ICS Ransomware
- EDR and ICS/OT Security: Best Practices and Real-World Applications
⚙️ Pillar 9: Industry Verticals (Sector-Specific)
- Securing the Digital Power Grid
- Rail Cybersecurity & OT SOCs in the Middle East
- Railway Cyberattacks Are Rising
- Automotive, Mining, Pharma, and Food Industry Security
- Medical Systems & Wearable Medical Devices Security (Hacking Health)
- Substation IDS: Multi-Protocol Support
🎓 Pillar 10: Professional Development
- OT Cybersecurity Skills: Building Your Expertise
- From Academia to Cybersecurity Leadership
- From Physical Security to OT Cybersecurity
- Cybersecurity Journalism & OT Security
🤝 The Team Behind the Mission
The success of ICS Arabia is the result of dedicated production and strategic management.
Dr. Sulaiman Alhasawi — Founder & Host
Every episode is filmed and produced on-site at Sulaiman‘s home office studio in Kuwait, ensuring a consistent and professional environment for high-level technical discourse.
Bassem Ben Amor — Strategy & Content Management
Bassem is a core pillar of the team. He manages guest recruitment and authors our bilingual articles. His dedication has been a major catalyst for our recent growth. Bassem also manages our presence on Spotify, ensuring our content is accessible to professionals everywhere.
🎙️ A Community of Industry Professionals
We are proud to have hosted an incredible directory of industry professionals:
Aaron C. Crow • Adnan Ahmed • Ahmed Al Saleh • Alessio Rosas • Ali Y Dashti • Ali Laribi, CISSP, CPP, CISM • Andre Froneman • Anton Shipulin • Ayed Al Qartah عايد القرطه • Bassem Ben Amor PMP® • Dieter Sarrazyn • Dr. Fouad Abou Chacra • Haitham Rashwan, PhD • Dr. Jesus Molina • Sridhar Adepu PhD • Eduard Kovacs • Faisal Albuloushi • Fawaz Adi • Fred Gordy • Hussain AlSayegh, CPAS, ITIL, CBET, CHTM • Jan Hoff • Joel Langill • John Matherly • Khalid Aljamed • Khalid Ansari • Leen AlHalabi • Marco (Marc) Ayala • Michael Hoffman • Mike Holcomb • Mohammed Al Dabbous • Naser Aldossary • Nebras ALQURASHI • Omar Sherin • Philip Griffiths • Rakesh Kumar • Raphael Arakelian • Saltanat Mashirova • Scott Reynolds • Shaker Hashlan • Sinclair Koelemij • Steve Mustard • SZ Lin (林上智) • Tobias Halmans • Vivek Ponnada • Zakhar Bernhardt • 🇸🇦 🇩🇰 Abdulrahman Al Safh • Nasser Al Alawi • Samir Mokthar
Looking Ahead
As we move into 2026, our mission remains unchanged: to provide the best OT/ICS security education in the world, straight from Kuwait.
Thank you to our 1,500+ subscribers and the global community for your trust. We are just getting started.