On the 35th episode of Enterprise AI Defenders, hosts Evan Reiser (co-founder and CEO, Abnormal AI) and Mike Britton (CIO, Abnormal AI) talk with Adam Keown, Chief Information Security Officer at Eastman Chemical Company. Adam draws on a career in law enforcement and global enterprise security to explain how Eastman is safeguarding life-critical manufacturing through identity-first defense, AI-informed education, and resilience engineering, staying ahead of a dynamic threat landscape.

Quick hits from Adam:

On aligning cyber with manufacturing outcomes: “Cybersecurity here at Eastman has two main pillars: make sure the business continues running, and protect our intellectual property. That gives us an advantage in the market.”
On evolving attack surfaces: “Identity is the new attack surface, and privilege is the blast radius.”
On adaptive education: “One of the nicest compliments I’ve gotten was a VP saying: ‘Your security newsletter is so concise it’s faster to read than to file away’.”

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