Labshock Partners With Boots to Cyber to Move Veterans Into Industrial Cybersecurity
The partnership targets the gap between general cyber training and the operational understanding critical infrastructure roles require.
June 25, 2026 — Labshock has entered a partnership with Boots to Cyber to support people moving from military service into cybersecurity, with a focus on industrial and critical infrastructure environments.
The rationale is a match in operating model rather than in subject matter. Observing an environment, mapping a system, identifying weak points, protecting what matters and adapting when conditions change describes both mission planning and industrial security work. Industrial environments are themselves mission systems: power, water, manufacturing, transportation and utilities support processes that move energy, water, materials and signals.
The company argues that the gap those candidates face is not cyber theory but operational understanding — how a PLC command starts a pump, how a register change modifies a setpoint, how a breaker command changes electrical state. Closing it requires environments people can interact with, break, restore and understand, rather than documentation.
Under the partnership, Labshock extends its stated principle that OT security must be testable with two additions: teachable, meaning progression that can be followed step by step, and visible, meaning the system shows what is happening across process, PLC, network and detection layers simultaneously.
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