Nexus is a cybersecurity podcast hosted by Claroty Editorial Director Mike Mimoso. Nexus will feature discussions with cybersecurity leaders responsible for the security and protection of cyber-physical systems. Guests include cybersecurity researchers, innovators, and influencers, discussing the topics affecting cybersecurity professionals in OT, IoT, and IoMT environments.
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There are great stories in the security industry that aren’t being told. Fascinating people who fly below the radar and aren’t being heard. We know because we encounter them in hallways, hotel lobbies and just about everywhere imaginable across the globe. Everytime we think “I wish I had recorded that conversation so that everyone could hear it…” Our goal with Security Voices is to provide a place for clear-headed dialogue with great people that’s unencumbered by the hyperbole and shouting t ...
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Want to know how to build market-leading technology products? Want to know how to take a startup from nothing multi-billion dollar exit? Zero To Exit is the best business and technology podcast series that will share deep insights from industry leaders on how they successfully led multiple products and companies to critical success. We will invite guests who have been on the battlefield for many years and can share their unique insights on building products, sales machines, company culture, ...
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Bob Maley on Resource Challenges in Cybersecurity
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32:41Bob Maley, Chief Security Officer at Black Kite and former CISO for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, joins the Nexus Podcast to discuss how critical infrastructure operators and state and local governments are meeting cybersecurity resourcing challenges. Whether it's budgets, workforce shortages, or technical debt, security leaders are facing vola…
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How Hackers Take Over Security Cameras (and What You Can Do About It): A Conversation With Claroty’s Noam Moshe
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26:38Cybersecurity researcher Noam Moshe of Claroty met up with The Security Ledger Podcast at this year's Black Hat Briefings to discuss his presentation on critical Axis IP camera vulnerabilities that could let hackers spy, manipulate video feeds, and pivot into sensitive networks—and what organizations can do to defend against these (and other) IoT t…
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How Hackers Take Over Security Cameras (and What You Can Do About It): A Conversation With Claroty’s Noam Moshe
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26:38Cybersecurity researcher Noam Moshe of Claroty met up with The Security Ledger Podcast at this year's Black Hat Briefings to discuss his presentation on critical Axis IP camera vulnerabilities that could let hackers spy, manipulate video feeds, and pivot into sensitive networks—and what organizations can do to defend against these (and other) IoT t…
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Pankaj Goyal on Cyber Insurance Coverage for OT Environments
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29:30Pankaj Goyal, Chief Operating Officer at Safe Security, joins the Nexus Podcast to discuss the challenges cyber insurance carriers and brokers have in determing and providing coverage for asset heavy operational technology (OT) and cyber-physical systems (CPS) environments. Underwriters have prolific amounts of historical data and experience in cal…
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Rui Ataide on Navigating Ransomware Negotiations
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28:39Rui Ataide, Managing Security Consultant at GuidePoint Security, joins the Nexus Podcast to discuss his experiences negotiating with ransomware gangs on behalf of victimized organizations. Ataide covers the nuances, processes, and methodology of negotiating with groups. He also explains how extortion and data theft has changed the risk management c…
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Salvatore Gariuolo, a senior threat researcher at Trend Micro, joins the Nexus Podcast to discuss safe EV charging and in particular, the ISO 15118 standard meant to create a trusted environment for electric vehicle charging. Gariuolo contends that while ISO 15118 offers substantial improvements that reduce pressure on the grid, and also introduces…
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Noam Moshe, Research Director for Claroty Team82, joins the Nexus Podcast live at the Black Hat Briefings in Las Vegas to discuss research that was presented here on the security of a popular video surveillance platform manufactured by Axis Communications. Moshe describes how Team82 examined the proprietary protocol supporting Axis servers and clie…
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Dan Berte on Solar Grid and IoT Vulnerabilities
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32:21Dan Berte, director of IoT security at Bitdefender, joins the Nexus Podcast to join his team's ongoing research into the security of solar grid inverters and three serious vulnerabilities uncovered in the popular Deye Solarman management platform. Dan discusses his team's research, the disclosure process, and the implications on green energy initia…
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Vivek Ponnada on the Ongoing Maturity of OT Security
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35:55OT cybersecurity veteran Vivek Ponnada, SVP Growth & Strategy at Frenos, joins the Nexus Podcast to lend his expertise on the areas where he is seeing the most maturity and rapid evolution in the practice. Vivek explains the growing demand for contextual information to supplement the data organizations have around their known assets and vulnerabili…
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Austin Allen on the Cybersecurity Realities Facing Healthcare
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29:07Austin Allen, Sr. Director of Global Solutions Architecture at Airlock Security, joins the Nexus Podcast to discuss cybersecurity realities happening inside healthcare delivery organizations. Allen covers challenges and solutions around legacy software managing connected medical devices, and other cybersecurity risks potentially negatively impactin…
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Gentry Lane on the Use of 'Salami Cuts' in Cyber Conflict
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28:40Gentry Lane, founder of Nemesis Global, joins the Nexus Podcast to discuss the strategies guiding adversaries in their targeting of U.S. critical infrastructure. Primary of which is the desire of countries such as China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea to displace the U.S. as the global hegemon, she said. To disrupt the U.S.' standing as such, these …
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Pedro Umbelino on Exploiting ATG Devices in Fuel Storage
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27:14Pedro Umbelino, Principal Research Scientist at Bitsight Technologies, joins the Nexus Podcast to discuss his team's research into Automatic Tank Gauge (ATG) systems and how they uncovered 11 vulnerabilities in ATGs manufactured by five different vendors. ATG systems are an industrial control system that monitors fuel levels inside storage tanks, i…
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Steven Sim on OT-ISAC and the State of Information Sharing
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43:08Steven Sim, Chair of the OT-ISAC Advisory Committee, joins the Nexus Podcast to catch us up on the ISAC's activities, and some of the upcoming community-driven initiatives sponsored by the group. Steven shares the processes by which member organizations share incident, threat, and vulnerability information. He also discusses how member organization…
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Cybersecurity and technology expert Sarah Fluchs joins the 100th episode of the Nexus Podcast to discuss the EU's Cyber Resilience Act and what it means for manufacturers of "products with digital elements" as they aim toward a 2027 compliance deadline. Sarah provides her insight on the regulation's essential requirements, its focus on secure-by-de…
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Andrew Ohrt on Cyber-Informed Engineering
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37:06Andrew Ohrt, the resilience practice area lead at West Yost, joins the Nexus Podcast to discuss cyber-informed engineering (CIE) and how it informs engineers and asset operators to understand their role in creating and maintaining a cyber resilient organization. According to Ohrt, CIE is one of the best examples of delivering cybersecurity concepts…
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Megan Stifel on the Impact of the Ransomware Task Force
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29:48Megan Stifel, Chief Strategy Officer for the Institute for Security and Technology, joins the Nexus Podcast to discuss the four years of progress and challenges experienced by the Ransomware Task Force. The RTF was created days before the Colonial Pipeline ransomware incident and in a landmark report, laid out 48 recommendations to the industry tha…
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Joe Slowik on Identifying Truly 'Critical' Infrastructure
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29:47Security researcher Joe Slowik joins the Nexus Podcast to discuss the broad interpretation of what critical infrastructure entities are truly "critical," and how that creates an ethical wedge between protecting the well-resourced and those that are resource-strapped. Slowik acknowledges that while calling everything "critical" ensures that nothing …
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Danielle Jablanski on Critical Infrastructure Protection
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41:26Danielle Jablanski, Industrial Control Systems Strategist & Subject Matter Expert at CISA, joins the Nexus podcast to discuss her perspectives on critical infrastructure protection and government's role as a cybersecurity partner on implementation guidance and enablement. Danielle touches on a number of areas of CI security and protection, ranging …
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Cassie Crossley on Hardware Security, HBOMs
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28:20Schneider Electric Vice President of Supply Chain Security Cassie Crossley joins the Nexus Podcast to discuss the nuances of hardware security and the growing need for hardware bills of materials (HBOMs) within critical infrastructure. Cassie covers the use cases and features that matter most within an HBOM, some of the threats and weaknesses they …
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Christiaan Beek on Ransomware's Evolution and Economics
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30:05Rapid7 Senior Director of Threat Analytics Christiaan Beek joins the Nexus Podcast to discuss the technical evolution and economic models that maintain ransomware's viability among threat actors. Ransomware became a for-profit threat more than a decade ago and has progressed into the No. 1 threat facing many critical infrastructure organizations. I…
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Florence Hudson on the IEEE/UL 2933 Clinical IOT Cybersecurity Standard
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40:39Florence Hudson, working group chair of the IEEE/UL 2933 standard and framework for Clinical IOT Data and Device Interoperability with TIPPSS, joins the Nexus Podcast. Published last September, the standard establishes a framework for secure data exchanges between clinical IoT and medical devices and systems. The frameworks is based on TIPPSS princ…
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Mike Holcomb on Starting and Succeeding in OT Cybersecurity
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42:40Mike Holcomb, global lead for ICS and OT cybersecurity at Fluor, joins the Nexus Podcast to discuss his advocacy and efforts to educate engineers and IT cybersecurity professionals in the nuances of protecting operational technology and industrial control systems. Mike produces and hosts a learning series available for free on YouTube called "Getti…
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Ron Fabela on Low-Skilled OT and ICS Threat Actors
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36:33Ron Fabela of ABS Consulting joins the Nexus Podcast to dispel some of the myths surrounding threat actors targeting operational technology and industrial control systems. Groups such as the Russian Cyber Army, UserSec, and the CyberAv3ngers have different ideological motivations, and have decidedly carried out low-impact attacks on OT. Fabela cove…
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Episode 260: The Art of Teaching Secure Coding with Tanya Janca
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36:32In this episode of the podcast, host Paul Roberts welcomes Tanya Janca of She Hacks Purple back into the studio. Tanya talks about her newly released book: Alice and Bob Learn Secure Coding, published by Wiley and the larger problem of how to promote the teaching of secure coding practices to developers. The post Episode 260: The Art of Teaching Se…
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Munish Walther-Puri on Creating a Scale for Cybersecurity Incidents
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33:25Munish Walther-Puri of the Center for Global Affairs at New York University joins the Claroty Nexus podcast to discuss a homegrown severity scale for critical infrastructure cybersecurity incidents. The Infrastructure Cyber Incident Scale, or INCI Scale, brings a Richter-Scale-like criticality index to incidents based on the intensity, magnitude, a…
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Brian Foster on the Risks of a Hyperconnected Grid
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27:17Brian Foster, Senior Advisor for Grid Security at Southern California Edison, joins the Nexus Podcast to discuss a presentation he gave at the S4 Conference called . Foster covers the impending risk and host of exposures expected as smart meters and other similar devices are centrally managed online. This scenario gives attackers the ability to att…
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CISA's Matthew Rogers on Secure by Demand for OT
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39:23Matthew Rogers, ICS Cybersecurity Strategy & R&D Lead at the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) joins the Nexus Podcast to discuss the agency's latest publication: “Secure by Demand: Priority Considerations for Operational Technology Owners and Operators when Selecting Digital Products.” This guide features 12 cybersecurity recom…
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Security Validation: A Deep Dive with Cymulate’s David Kellerman
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30:49In this Spotlight episode, host Paul Roberts speaks with David Kellerman, the Field CTO at Cymulate, about the growing demand for security validation technology, like Cymulate's, as organizations struggle to assess the utility and effectiveness of their security investments. The post Security Validation: A Deep Dive with Cymulate’s David Kellerman …
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Claroty Team82 researcher Noam Moshe joins the Nexus Podcast to discuss the IOCONTROL malware used by an Iranian APT actor known as the CyberAv3ngers to target civilian critical infrastructure in the U.S. and Israel. The malware acts as a Linux-based backdoor and has a modular configuration that can be adapted for IoT, OT, and SCADA devices. Read T…
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Team82 on Attacking the Insecure IoT Cloud
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31:38Claroty Team82's Noam Moshe and Tomer Goldschmidt join the Nexus Podcast to discuss the research team's latest publication on 10 vulnerabilities discovered in Ruijie Networks' Reyee OS cloud platform. A chain of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to remotely execute code on any device connected to the Ruijie cloud. Team82 also developed …
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Volexity's Steven Adair on the Nearest Neighbor Attack
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37:23Volexity founder Steven Adair joins the Claroty Nexus Podcast to discuss the Nearest Neighbor Attack, a unique attack carried out by Russia's APT 28 against a high-value target in an attempt to gain intelligence on Ukraine prior to the start of the war in February 2022. APT 28 was able to compromise the Wi-Fi network of its target without being in …
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Pacific Rim: Sophos’ 6 Year Battle To Beat Back China State Hackers
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33:43Host Paul Roberts interviews Sophos CISO Ross McKerchar about the company's recent report, Pacific Rim, detailing its multi-year battle to beat back a sophisticated Chinese hacking campaign. The post Pacific Rim: Sophos’ 6 Year Battle To Beat Back China State Hackers appeared first on The Security Ledger with Paul F. Roberts.…
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Joe Saunders on Advanced Cyberattacks Against Critical Infrastructure
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34:43Runsafe Security CEO and Cofounder Joe Saunders joins the Nexus Podcast to discuss the strategic shift from certain APTs toward destructive cyberattacks targeting U.S. critical infrastructure. Groups such as Volt Typhoon and Sandworm have aggressively focused their efforts on hacking OT, IoT, and healthcare organizations, opening new fronts that as…
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Grant Geyer on the Business Impact of Disruptions from Cyberattacks
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25:03Claroty Chief Strategy Officer Grant Geyer joins the Nexus Podcast to discuss the results of a survey of 1,100 cybersecurity leaders and practitioners on the business impact of disruptions from cyberattacks on cyber-physical systems. The financial losses are steep from these attacks impacting connected systems that are so central to our way of life…
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Alethe Denis on Social Engineering, Red-Teaming
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43:45Bishop Fox senior security consultant Alethe Denis joins the Claroty Nexus podcast to discuss social engineering in cybersecurity and how it has become part of red-team engagements, especially inside critical infrastructure organizations. She explains the value of open source intelligence and data stolen in breaches to scammers and extortionists in…
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Alon Dankner on Extracting Crypto Keys from PLCs
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27:58Alon Dankner of the Technion Institute for Technology in TelAviv Israel joins the Claroty Nexus Podcast to discuss a presentation he gave at the recent Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas. Dankner and colleague Nadav Adir's presentation looked at the attack surface of programmable logic controllers (PLCs), in particular Siemens’ S7 prot…
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Noam Moshe on Extracting Forensic Data from Unitronics PLCs
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27:52Claroty Team82 researcher Noam Moshe joins the Nexus Podcast to talk about Team82’s research into Unitronics Vision series integrated HMI/PLC devices. The OT devices were exploited last year in attacks against water treatment facilities in the U.S. and Israel. Team82 researched the security of these devices and developed a pair of tools that allowe…
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Alexander Antukh on Cyber Risk Quantification
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43:05Alexander Antukh, CISO of AboitizPower in the Philippines, the country's largest power and renewable energy provider, joins the Nexus Podcast to discuss cyber risk quantification (CRQ). CRQ is a popular framework used to assess the financial impact of a cybersecurity threat on an organization. Antukh is an advocate of CRQ, and discusses his approac…
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Vincente Diaz on Using AI for Malware Analysis
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27:38Vincente Diaz, Threat Intelligence Strategist on Google’s VirusTotal team and formerly the EU director of Kaspersky Lab’s Global Research & Analysis Team, joins the Nexus Podcast to discuss how artificial intelligence and machine learning is an integral part of what VirusTotal is doing around malware analysis. Vincente describes the advantages thes…
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Ahmik Hindman, Senior Network and Security Solution Consultant at Rockwell Automation, joins the Claroty Nexus podcast to discuss the challenges and success stories he's experienced in patching operational technology equipment and industrial control systems. Hindman has been at Rockwell Automation for 28 years and has expansive experience with cust…
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Dr. Bilyana Lilly, an expert on geopolitics and Russia’s codification of information warfare as a strategy, says that the war in Ukraine has only temporarily delayed Russia’s activity against the West in cyberspace. On this episode of the Nexus podcast, she reinforces the idea that despite the fact that Russia is operating under severe resource con…
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Vinnie Liu on Offensive Security Testing During Incidents
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29:30Bishop Fox CEO and Cofounder Vinnie Liu joins the Nexus Podcast to discuss his team's role during security incidents in conducting offensive security testing alongside incident response activities. In healthcare environments where ransomware is the leading threat, red-teams and other offensive security specialists are called in, Liu said, to ensure…
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Diana Kelley on Protecting the AI Lifecycle
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26:11Protect AI Chief Information Security Officer Diana Kelley joins the Claroty Nexus podcast to discuss the intricacies of securing machine learning and artificial intelligence use inside the enterprise. She also explains the concept of MLSecOps and how it compares and contrasts to DevOps used in application development. For more, visit nexusconnect.…
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Jennifer Minella on OT Cybersecurity Convergence
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29:56Jennifer Minella, founder and principal advisor of Viszen Security, joins the Claroty Nexus podcast to discuss her experiences advising organizations on operational technology implementations, risk management, and succeeding at IT/OT convergence. This episode was recorded during RSA Conference where Jennifer and Bryson Bort gave a talk on convergen…
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Charles Blauner on the Changing Role of the CISO
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31:00Charles Blauner, Team8 operating partner and CISO in residence, joins the Claroty Nexus podcast to discuss the rapid changes in responsibilities and liability risks facing today's chief information security officers. Blauner, former CISO at JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank, describes how, for example, the new SEC rules around disclosures and incidents, …
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Mikko Hypponen on a Decade of Corporate Ransomware Attacks
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32:18Cybersecurity pioneer Mikko Hypponen joins the Claroty Nexus live at the RSA Conference to discuss a decade of ransomware attacks against corporate networks. Hypponen is Chief Research Officer at WithSecure, the former F-Secure for Business. He has observed and analyzed malware from its infancy when it was a merely a means of disruption and attenti…
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Adm. Michael Rogers on Geopolitics and Cybersecurity
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27:57Former NSA Director Adm. Michael S. Rogers (Ret. USN) joins the Claroty Nexus Podcast live from RSA Conference in San Francisco to discuss the current geopolitical climate, its impact on chief information security officers, and how they can and should response. Rogers discusses how the doctrines of adversaries are changing and that U.S. critical in…
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Abel Archundia on Complexity in Critical Infrastructure
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35:37Abel Archundia, chief technology officer and global head of advisory for Istari, joins the Claroty Nexus podcast to discuss the nature of complexity, technical debt, and regulation, and how it influences risk decisions in critical infrastructure environments. He explains the challenges complexity brings to manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, and other …
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Adam Gluck, founder and CEO of Copia Automation, joins the Claroty Nexus podcast to discuss the need for DevOps within industrial automation. DevOps practices are popping up more frequently in these environments, but there are still hurdles and challenges for developers and engineers to overcome. Adam covers those, and explains how DevOps can impro…
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Greg Garcia on the Change Healthcare Cyberattack
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44:35Greg Garcia, the executive director of the Healthcare and Public Health Sector Coordinating Council’s Cybersecurity Working Group, joins the Claroty Nexus podcast to discuss the Change Healthcare ransomware attack and what can be done from a policy perspective to minimize the impact of such attacks in the future. Garcia has had a long career on the…
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