Mr. Blask's career spans the breadth of the industrial cybersecurity space.

In 1990 he was working at General Electric Power Systems as a control systems engineer. He joined Sea Change Corporation in 1991 where he invented one of the first commercial firewall products, the BorderWare Firewall Server. He then joined Cisco System (1998) where he led the company’s firewall business to a position of global leadership, a legacy that continues to this day. With several Cisco colleagues Mr. Blask started Protego Networks (2002), an early Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) vendor later acquired by Cisco. He then founded Lofty Perch (2005) to investigate the application of SIEM technologies to ICS cybersecurity and has advocated such architectures ever since. As Chief Evangelist for NSS Labs he worked to develop regulatory compliance testing regimes (2008). Based on his years of firsthand experience Mr. Blask authored the first book on SIEM, "Security Information and Event Management Implementation", published by McGraw Hill (2010). He created AlienVault's Industrial Control Systems Group (2011).

Today Mr. Blask is Founder and CEO of ICS Cybersecurity, Inc.; Chair of the Industrial Control System Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ICS-ISAC); Chief Architect for NorthWind Technologies in Doha, Qatar; Advisor to Itex Solutions in Sana’a, Yemen and Targetproof in Atlanta, USA; and actively involved with a wide range of industry efforts both in the United States and abroad.