About ACS
A practical approach, rooted in real operations.
Behind the systems society depends on.
Applied Control Solutions (ACS) helps industry and government organizations address one of the most important challenges in modern operations: securing and optimizing the systems that monitor and control physical processes. The firm is known for thought leadership, technical depth, and a practical approach rooted in real-world industrial operations. Its work spans critical infrastructure sectors such as electric power, water, manufacturing, and other process industries where reliability, safety, and resilience are non-negotiable.
Mission
Prevent people from being injured or killed by automation behaving unsafely, even when no cyberattack occurs.
How we help.
We help critical infrastructure organizations by collecting, normalizing, analyzing, and trusted sharing of reports about non-network ICS / automation incidents and near misses involving control logic, HMI behavior, configuration and integration.
Joe Weiss
Managing Partner & Founder
A recognized pioneer in industrial control systems, Joe Weiss brings more than 40 years of experience in instrumentation, automation, and controls to Applied Control Solutions, LLC. He is a licensed Professional Engineer, has testified before Congress, and is a Process Automation Hall of Fame inductee.
Joe Weiss is widely recognized as a pioneer in industrial control systems cybersecurity and a trusted voice on protecting the technologies that keep critical infrastructure running. As Managing Partner of Applied Control Solutions, LLC (ACS), he brings decades of experience in instrumentation, automation, control systems, and operational technology security to help organizations strengthen resilience, reduce risk, and improve performance in complex industrial environments.
The ACS Annual Service.
For more than 20 years, Joe Weiss has tracked the control system incidents that harm critical infrastructure, building what is now the world’s largest record of ICS automation incidents. The ACS Annual Service puts that record, and direct access to Joe, to work for your organization. It begins with the Incident Identification Workshop, then adds the annual incident report, a comparison with incidents in your sector and geography, periodic reviews, and year-round notifications and expert access.
Explore the Annual ServiceMike Gee
Director, Ecosystem Development
An industrial risk and automation resilience leader, Mike Gee builds the Level 0/1 ecosystem that secure-by-design adoption depends on at Applied Control Solutions, LLC.
Mike Gee is an industrial risk and automation resilience leader focused on the real-world vulnerabilities that exist in operational technology (OT) and industrial control systems (ICS) at Level 0 and Level 1: the sensors, actuators, controllers, and embedded systems that directly govern physical processes. His work at ACS centers on advancing industry understanding of non-IP network automation incidents, the class of failures responsible for the overwhelming majority of catastrophic industrial outcomes.
Mike welcomes conversations with industry leaders, ecosystem partners, and organizations seeking to understand, identify, and mitigate Level 0/1 automation risks.
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