LimaCharliePublic awareness of industrial system attacks is finally catching up to what security professionals have known for years.
On The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, Justin Searle, Director of ICS Security at InGuardians, traces the shift from Conficker in 2008 taking out OT systems on flat networks to Stuxnet in 2010 making the warfare implications clear.
Since then, awareness among governments and critical infrastructure operators has grown steadily, and so have the attacks.
The full conversation covers a lot of ground:
> Why ICS environments are uniquely difficult to patch and harden
> How penetration testing in OT requires a fundamentally different approach
> Whether smart grid technology expands the attack surface or improves it
> What security professionals need to understand before working in these environments
Listen to the full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QoJR0-gCrE