Beyond Purdue

Why Trust, Context, and Meaning Are the Foundation of Resilient Operations
The flood in Abu Dhabi was a Black Swan — once. Now everyone’s digging drains, installing water sensors, and putting “flood” on the risk register.

Just like they’ve done with cyberattacks. And system faults. And random hardware failures.

But what about the next Black Swan?
The real kind. The one that’s not in your SOP, doesn’t log to your historian, and doesn’t show up in your digital twin dashboard until it’s too late.

About Beyond Purdue

BeyondPurdue.com is a blog about real-world industrial control systems — and what breaks them.

We go beyond outdated models and buzzwords to focus on what matters:
secure data flows, resilient architectures, and systems that stay online when it counts.

Written by Petr Roupec of Bohemia Market, this blog shares lessons from the field — not theory.

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