Evolving strategies to address legacy systems, funding challenges and a complex regulatory environment.
I recently watched an interesting documentary called Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War on Netflix. Great watch – I’d highly recommend it. Essentially it positioned nearly every prominent geo-political event since World War II as fallout from the U.S. dropping the nuclear bomb on Japan to end World War II.
Similarly, we can look at a number of recent, major cybersecurity events that have their origins in attacks on critical infrastructure. Whether you want to go all the way back to Stuxnet, or more recent developments like Colonial Pipeline, hackers realized that the control systems utilized in these environments mirror those used by manufacturers like Boeing, Clorox, Johnson Controls and many others who have been recent victims of high-profile hacks.
Joining me to discuss these dynamics is Bill Moore, the founder and CEO of XONA Systems, a leading provider of secure access solutions. Watch/listen as he dives into:
- The challenges of updating and securing the legacy tech found throughout manufacturing and critical infrastructure.
- Getting past the ‘set it and forget it’ mindset of industrial cybersecurity.
- Strategies for implementing updates and patches without slowing operations or opening new doors to hackers.
- Ways to improve funding processes to ensure security needs are met and keep pace with an evolving threat landscape.
- How the more distributed dynamic of OT technology needs to be understood in developing new strategies and implementing new tools.
- Lessons learned from Colonial Pipeline.
- Ways to optimize regulatory efforts.
- Why every industrial organization needs a dedicated Director of OT Security.