When you read your favorite cybersecurity blog, do you often wonder what it would be like to sit down with the authors and get their real thoughts about some of the topics they write about?  Most blogs and articles are so carefully curated, edited, fact-checked, and linked to supporting evidence that they can seem somewhat stilted, and worse, heavily contrived.  Perhaps this is why meeting some of the speakers and authors at public events is so much fun.  It gives us all a chance to hear the person in an informal setting, with all the possible candor that makes for a true connection.

We thought this may be a good approach for a new series that we call “Pub Talk”.  It gives us a chance to get an unvarnished glimpse at some of the cybersecurity issues of some of the popular and respected experts in the field.  These are the conversations that we all want to have over our favorite beverage.  Unbridled, honest, yet still family-friendly, we hope you enjoy these casual conversations.

In our first chat of the series, we imagine ourselves at the Revolution Bar on Clapham High Street, in London.  As the drinks are served, I am joined by Henry Partridge, from Belden, and Lane Thames, and Tyler Reguly, who are both from Tripwire. 

Pub Talk: IT/OT convergence, Frameworks and prevailing cybersecurity threats

Richard:  From an OT security standpoint, what is the top of your list as far as OT security is concerned?

Tyler:  I think a lot of it is that low-hanging fruit idea.  One of the things that, even today when I was looking at the latest in the CSA industrial alerts, the very first one on the list was the problem (Read more...)