There is No ‘Take Down the Whole US Grid’ with Sarah Freeman and Andy Bochman

Why you should listen:

• Hackers are targeting critical infrastructure and there’s an urgent need for smarter cybersecurity defenses to protect Operational Technology. 
• The best practices to defend against attacks on utilities.
• Why there is no such thing as “taking down the whole US grid.”

Five Key Quotes: 

• “How can you secure what you don’t even know you have? If you don’t even know what you have down to some level of detail...you’re not going to be in a good position to defend it.”  - Andy Bochman 
• “The most senior person with the word cyber in their title ideally is at least at the VP level.” - Andy Bochman 
• “You have to not only understand how the attacker can gain access to your network but ultimately gain access to the accounts that are most valuable – where are those crown jewel accounts?” - Sarah Freeman
• “IT and OT needs to be merged …the problem is cyber is here to stay and everybody needs to take part in this security process.” - Sarah Freeman
• “The government is most interested in who conducted the attack... The fact that there are two parties here with differing interests is a core issue.” - Sarah Freeman

Related Links:

• Countering Cyber Sabotage: Introducing Consequence-Driven, Cyber-Informed Engineering (CCE) 1st Edition
• https://hbr.org/2018/05/internet-insecurity
• https://medium.com/cxo-magazine/the-missing-chief-security-officer-11979a54fbf9
• https://www.synack.com/
• LinkedIn: 
  • Andy Bochman
  • Sarah Freeman
• Twitter:
  • @andybochman