Listen "Challenges in Critical Infrastructure Security"
Episode Synopsis
There's substantial cybersecurity risk in critical infrastructure and addressing it is a complex problem that involves regulatory and private sector efforts. Joshua Corman, founder of I am the Cavalry and the CyberMed Summit, and Rob Knake, cybersecurity expert and former federal cybersecurity official, join host Eric Hanselman to explore the nature of the problems and the challenges we face in addressing them. This is a conversation that continues from their session at the America's Growth Capital's annual West Coast Cybersecurity Conference that ran alongside the RSA Conference. One of the challenges in securing critical infrastructure, is that it's often addressed as independent activities. That can miss the impact of cascading failures that can occur, given the interdependencies that exist across utilities and the social services that depend on them. Ransomware attacks on hospitals have taken weeks to resolve, rather than days. The Colonial pipeline attack shutdown services for a week. Behind this is a set of challenges that need to be addressed on the scale of the Y2K crisis at the start of the century, but that lack a hard deadline. There is progress being made, but there is much more to do. Host: https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/contributors/1535668/eric-hanselman https://www.linkedin.com/in/erichanselman/ Guests: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshcorman/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/rknake/ Links to show content: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/National-Cybersecurity-Strategy-2023.pdf https://youtu.be/dhJvslRRlFc?si=TmNbbRuh4MeSu0BO https://www.rsaconference.com/library/presentation/usa/2024/getting%20serious%20critical%20disruptionsthinkingresponses%20%20rumors%20of%20war https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/programs/chemical-facility-anti-terrorism-standards-cfats
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