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Rui Adaite, Managing Security Consultant at GuidePoint Security, joined the Nexus Podcast recently to discuss the nuances of ransomware negotiations, how negotiations work, and the ins and outs of interacting with ransomware gangs.
Ransomware
Cyber Resilience
Industrial
Healthcare

Nexus Podcast: Rui Ataide on Ransomware Negotiations and Recovery

Michael Mimoso
Current OT cybersecurity budgeting approaches reflect a misalignment of prioritizing surface-level defenses over architectural shortcomings. Instead, CISOs should demand vendors deliver products that are secure by design, and address systemic failures over a reactive approach to the security of cyber-physical systems.
Industrial
Operational Technology
Risk Management
Technical Debt

The Economics of OT Cybersecurity: Are We Investing in the Wrong Priorities?

Dan Ricci
Gentry Lane, founder of Nemesis Global, joins the Nexus Podcast to discuss how a Cold War tactic known as Salami Cuts is being used against U.S. critical infrastructure. Adversaries who cannot operate on equal footing on a kinetic battlefield, are finding cyberspace to be a level playing field. The use of salami tactics is a strategy of gradually degrading an opposition's dominance by instilling distrust in institutions, utilities, or the government's ability to protect us.
Cyber Resilience
Risk Management
Industrial
Healthcare

Nexus Podcast: Gentry Lane on the Use of 'Salami Cuts' in Cyber Conflict

Michael Mimoso
In this episode of the Nexus Podcast, Pedro Umbelino, Principal Research Scientist at Bitsight Technologies, joins 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 devices have sets of sensors that measure and record fuel levels, condensation, temperature, and volume in storage tanks. They are critical because they can be used to monitor for leaks, and can trigger alerts, sirens, perform emergency shutoff procedures, or allow for ventilation if necessary.
Industrial
Operational Resilience
Operational Technology
Vulnerability Management

Nexus Podcast: Pedro Umbelino on Exploiting ATG Devices in Fuel Storage

Michael Mimoso
U.S. critical infrastructure operators are urged to be vigilant in hardening operational technology and ICS cybersecurity in expectation of a retaliatory response from Iran for last week’s missile strikes.
Cyber Resilience
Operational Technology
Industrial
Internet of Things
Healthcare
Risk Management

Experts: Expect Iran’s Cyber Tactics to be Disruptive

George V. Hulme
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Healthcare
Industrial
Operational Technology
Internet of Things
Risk Management

Looking Back at 100 Episodes of the Nexus Podcast

Michael Mimoso
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Industrial
Operational Technology
Vulnerability Management

Managing Serial-to-Ethernet Exposures in Modern OT Networks

Alessio Rosas
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Cyber Resilience
Operational Resilience
Operational Technology
Industrial
Risk Management

Nexus Podcast: Andrew Ohrt on Starting Cyber-Informed Engineering Projects

Michael Mimoso
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Cyber Resilience
Industrial
Operational Technology
Risk Management
Vulnerability Management

Cloud's Double-Edged Sword: Transforming OT Exposure Management

George V. Hulme
The NSA's Cybersecurity Technical Report on securing smart OT controllers champions secure-by-design and cyber-informed engineering, stating they prioritize “engineering controls to mitigate the worst consequences of cyberattacks”-like physical damage or loss of life. CIE moves cybersecurity from a design afterthought to a core engineering discipline. Traditional OT security often relied on air-gapping or retrofitting defenses, but CIE mandates designing systems that inherently resist attacks.
Cyber Resilience
Industrial
Operational Resilience
Operational Technology
Risk Management

How Cyber-Informed Engineering Shapes NSA’s Blueprint for OT Cyber Resilience

George V. Hulme
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Industrial
Cyber Resilience
Operational Technology
Operational Resilience
Risk Management

An Operational Checklist for Securing the IT/OT Ecosystem

Jim LaBonty
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Industrial
Operational Technology
Operational Resilience

Has IT/OT Convergence Improved Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity?

ADM. Michael S. Rogers, USN (Ret.)
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