Most manufacturers have an incident response plan. Few have tested it at 2 AM on a Sunday, with a skeleton crew and the people who know the equipment best nowhere to be found.

Fresh from the ICS Cybersecurity Conference in Nashville, Craig Duckworth and Dino Busalachi compare notes on what keeps industrial organizations from being ready for a real attack. The risk today goes beyond ransomware. It's attackers who blend into normal plant activity, process data that quietly exposes your intellectual property, security tools that never get used after the sale, and teams that still work in separate camps.

Craig and Dino talk through why IT, plant floor teams, system integrators, and equipment builders need to operate as one technology team, why new projects are the best place to build security in, and why passing an audit is not the same as being secure. They also look at how AI is speeding up both attacks and defenses, leaving manufacturers less time to react.

If you lead a plant, an engineering team, or a security program, this conversation will help you answer one question: if your plant was hit tonight, who makes the first call and who's on the other end receiving the call?

Listen now and share it with the people who own your plant floor.

Chapters:

• 00:00:00 Incident response plans must work outside office hours
• 00:01:00 Inside the OTICS Cyber Security Conference
• 00:02:00 Threat actors living in the normal
• 00:04:00 Why process data can expose intellectual property
• 00:07:00 The gap between tools, skills, and operating practice
• 00:08:00 Moving beyond the IT and OT divide
• 00:11:00 Why technology adoption matters after the sale
• 00:12:00 Building security into projects from the start
• 00:15:00 Defense in depth and protecting critical assets
• 00:17:00 Practicing incident response when it counts
• 00:19:00 Bringing integrators and asset owners to the table
• 00:20:00 Authority, accountability, and the CISO challenge
• 00:23:00 CMMC, continuous monitoring, and process data
• 00:24:00 Artificial intelligence changes the threat timeline
• 00:27:00 Asset discovery and security baselines
• 00:29:00 Checking a box versus improving the environment
• 00:32:00 Staying ahead through collaboration and readiness

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• Dino Busalachi on LinkedIn
• Craig Duckworth on LinkedIn

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