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All right.
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Good morning everyone.
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Good day.
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Today I've got Ashley McGlone from
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Tanium with me in the podcast.
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I had the opportunity to talk
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with one of his colleagues
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a couple days ago, and we
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talked about specifically
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manufacturing and cybersecurity
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in the manufacturing field.
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So without further ado, I'm gonna
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ask Ashley to introduce himself.
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What his expertise is, where he
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is working today what he likes
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to do on a day-to-day basis.
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And then we'll start from there.
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Thanks for
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having me on the show, Luigi.
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This is a lot of fun.
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Been looking forward to it.
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Yeah.
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I'm Ashley McGlone.
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I'm a technology strategist
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in our manufacturing segment.
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So I've spent the last few
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years here in this part of my
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tenure at Tanium, focusing on
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manufacturing customers and where
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Tanium is relevant to them on
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the factory floor, helping them
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with visibility and control.
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I've been here at Tanium
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five and a half years.
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Before that, I was with
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Microsoft for about eight years.
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Before that, Toyota
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for about eight years.
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And if you go all the way
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back, I started with Commodore
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in 1982, so I've been doing
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technology for four decades now.
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Wow.
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Impressive.
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Impressive.
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I'm sure the time at Toyota
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helped build your knowledge with
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regards to manufacturing there.
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Obviously manufacturing has
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become a huge, fundamental
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piece of our ecosystem.
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It's really integral
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into everything.
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What we're seeing and more so now
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is that manufacturing companies,
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like it or not, have become huge
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attack surfaces for bad actors.
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There's so much technology
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that's being integrated
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on a day-to-day basis.
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I know you're very tactical
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in your day-to-day.
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Can you define some
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of the terms we hear?
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Some of the people listening
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to the podcast may or may
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not know what the terms are.
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We talk about IT, we talk about
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I o T, we talk about OT, I I
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o T, maybe give us an overview
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of what all that's about.
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There's a lot
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of i's and o's and t's in there.
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Let's sort 'em out.
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So IT, that's what a
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lot of us do every day.
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That's our typical
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corporate infrastructure.
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Sometimes they like to separate it
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between the carpet and the paint
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or the carpet and the concrete.
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So the carpet is the
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office, that's IT.
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The concrete is the OT.
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That's your industrial environment.
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Operating technology is
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what that stands for.
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It could be the dials that
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turn the chlorine balance
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in a water treatment plant.
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Those types of industrial
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equipment type environments,
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that's the operating technology
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that makes the physical.
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It's a cyber physical interface
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between this technology is gonna
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control a physical process.
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That's the operating technology.
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Then IOT is internet
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of things, obviously.
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That can be anything
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from IP cameras to...
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At one customer, they had
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vulnerable Amazon Firesticks
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in their presentation
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TVs and conference rooms.
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So it could be any internet
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connected device that's not
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traditionally manageable like that.
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Then IoT and a lot of different
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verticals, like medical,
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have their own IoT flavor.
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So industrial IoT then instead
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of IoMT like medical and every
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vertical's got their own iot.
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An industrial IoT is often
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looped in with Industry 4.0,
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which is the latest revolution
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of plant floor technology,
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of which involves things like
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5G for wireless connectivity,
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especially in more rugged or
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network challenged environments.
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You've got those same IoT type
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technologies, but in the plant
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space used for manufacturing
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or industrial control purposes.
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Often, you'll see as well a gateway
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device where now the legacy devices
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that were previously not connected
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to the internet have a gateway
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to get out to cloud services.
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It's really a game changer.
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It blows my mind.
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When you think about mission
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critical plant floor systems that
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are now connected to the cloud,
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taking on that big dependency
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for another point of failure.
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So there's a lot of concern
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for a lot of traditional
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manufacturing folks.
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Do we go that path or not?
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But that's the whole gamut from
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IT, OT, Io T there you go.
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Okay.
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So you really went
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deep dive in there.
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I appreciate that.
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You mentioned Industry 4.0.
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Let me just double click on that.
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So Industry 4.0, is that a
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standard or kind of a terminology
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that we're using to augment
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or increase the efficiency or
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automation in a plant floor?
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How do you describe
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that specifically?
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Personally,
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I'm not sure that it's a
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standard necessarily, but I
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think it's a bucket phrase
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that captures a lot of that.
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I'm sure there are people
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that could go into the
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line items and explain why
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it's different than 3.0.
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That's technology, right?
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You got 1, 2, 3, 4.
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This is the latest iteration,
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which includes cloud connectivity
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on the plant floor systems.
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You mentioned
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something really important there.
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The gateway into cloud management.
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Traditional PLCs or
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traditional plant floor
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technology would typically
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not have any external access.
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And I think that gateway now,
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as much as it's creating that
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operational efficiency or
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automation and that layer of
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management, I think that's where,
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correct me if I'm wrong, is
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that where that gateway brings
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in also the security concern?
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Yes, if
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you're exposing devices to
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the internet that are on
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a plant floor, obviously
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that's gonna be a concern.
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These days, everybody knows better
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than directly exposing devices
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to the internet, I would hope.
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But even just typical Windows
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and Linux boxes that are sitting
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there beside the line controlling
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a machine in the assembly process
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of manufacturing, for example.
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Those machines are still there,
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still running old operating
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systems and still vulnerable.
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That's a good point.
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You're right.
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We often forget that.
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We put the box in the corner, it's
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got the same password for the last
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12 years, hasn't been updated or
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patched or anything like that.
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And it's kinda just
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running the old system.
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Those present obviously big
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vulnerabilities in a plant floor.
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Some people
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call that IT / OT convergence.
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Some people say, oh, that
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happened years ago, as soon as
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we put a PC on the plant floor.
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Other people say it's
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still converging.
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You've got windows and Linux
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devices typically usually
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older flavors of the operating
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system, often not up to date,
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that are put on the controlling,
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mission critical processes,
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that are time sensitive and,
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sometimes attached to millions
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of dollars of pieces of equipment
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that are very sensitive.
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So it's not your IT
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environment at all.
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What we hear often is that, if
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you try to take IT processes
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and just copy paste into the
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OT environment, you're gonna
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break things right off the bat.
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When you think about this
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mindset change between IT and OT.
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In IT, we're concerned about
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confidentiality, integrity,
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authenticity, and the CIA triad.
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But on the plant floor, the
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number one concern is human
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safety and that trumps everything.
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So it really is a different
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place to operate technology.
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Absolutely.
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I think that's always been
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the biggest challenge.
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Like you mentioned, merging
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those two mindsets together.
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The technology is one thing,
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but the mindset is really.
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And you're right, safety
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should never be overlooked,
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a hundred percent.
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To go back to what you said,
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if anyone's ever been on a
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plant floor, you've seen that
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PC that's got Four inches of
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dust on the keyboard and four
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inches of dust on the monitor.
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And it's never been touched,
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never been clean, but it's
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just rock solid and working.
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So we don't touch it.
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Let me double click on
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the next question, which
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is all about visibility.
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We talk about a lot of
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manufacturing customers, about
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visibility and control of
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their OT environments, right?
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So what are you hearing as
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trends in that specific space?
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As much as
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we would like to think that
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this is the year, 2023 and
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everybody's all wired up, digital
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transformation's complete.
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I talk to a lot of smaller
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manufacturers and suppliers who are
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literally just now getting started.
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I've had even larger manufacturers
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tell me; if we had a ransomware
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event in the plant, we have
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a spreadsheet from five years
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ago with our asset inventory.
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And we all know that's
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just not going to work.
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Unfortunately, a lot of people
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are still just getting started.
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And I think what's happening
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is, let's say you work with
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automotive and you've got a
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top tier automotive company.
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That OEM that's supplying the
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federal government in the US.
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So now there's CMMC Cybersecurity
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Maturity Model Certification.
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It's now at 2.0 getting
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ready to be effective here
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within the next couple years.
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Then all of a sudden, now you
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find yourself maybe you're not a
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tier one supplier to that auto.
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Maybe you're a tier
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two, tier three.
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All of a sudden, depending
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on how close you are, what
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you're supplying, you could
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be susceptible to compliance
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for US federal government.
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Or if you're in Europe, maybe it's
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Tisax or NIST two or maybe it's
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in US, the White House executive
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orders around cybersecurity.
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All of a sudden there's
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this really big regulatory
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compliance landscape.
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Now, standards have been around
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for years, but it's this regulatory
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compliance that's forcing
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people to take a look because
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manufacturing is, unfortunately
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increasingly in the headlines
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with ransomware, malware and
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ransomware malware targeted
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at manufacturing specifically.
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There was a headline a couple
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years ago where there was
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ransomware that was looking
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at over 60 windows executables
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running on the line side, and
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it would kill those processes
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before it ransomed the box.
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So it was specifically
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targeted manufacturing.
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That's got a lot of people
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concerned obviously.
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A lot of people are just getting
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started and they don't have the
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basic inventory visibility into
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what are my devices, whether
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they're Windows, Linux, or those
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lower tier PLC sensor type devices.
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Visibility really is the
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first place to start.
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And what I find is a lot
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of people are evaluating
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software solutions there.
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They're looking for things
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that can inventory those
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devices on the plant floor.
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If I started naming vendors because
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there are dozens of vendors in
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that space now who are helping
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to provide that visibility.
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At the risk of going too
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long on this answer, I'll
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also say another big concern
Ashley McGlone:
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is staffing and skillset.
Luigi Tiano:
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I was gonna say that.
Luigi Tiano:
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That's always been a
Luigi Tiano:
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challenge in manufacturing.
Luigi Tiano:
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Traditional, non IT environments.
Luigi Tiano:
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It's about operations, it's
Luigi Tiano:
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about efficiency, it's about
Luigi Tiano:
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automation and safety, of
Luigi Tiano:
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course, but technology's kind
Luigi Tiano:
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of always taken a backseat,
Luigi Tiano:
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and correct me if I'm wrong.
Ashley McGlone:
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There's people
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that design these processes and
Ashley McGlone:
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they've used technology for years,
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but security wasn't a concern
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because they weren't exposed to
Ashley McGlone:
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the internet, like they are now.
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So you've got skillsets in
Ashley McGlone:
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traditional industrial environments
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that are having to either learn
Ashley McGlone:
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new skills or you have IT people
Ashley McGlone:
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coming in telling them what to do.
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Then the production
Ashley McGlone:
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engineering folks are
Ashley McGlone:
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saying, now, wait a minute.
Ashley McGlone:
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It doesn't work that way here.
Ashley McGlone:
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You've got this hybridized
Ashley McGlone:
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skillset between a cybersecurity
Ashley McGlone:
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mindset coming into a
Ashley McGlone:
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manufacturing environment.
Ashley McGlone:
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So that really is a critical
Ashley McGlone:
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skillset to have now is having
Ashley McGlone:
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a security mind and an OT mind,
Ashley McGlone:
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so you can bring those together
Ashley McGlone:
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and doing it in a safe way.
Luigi Tiano:
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Sounds like it's
Luigi Tiano:
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not an easy skill set to find,
Luigi Tiano:
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based on what I've just heard.
Ashley McGlone:
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Yeah.
Ashley McGlone:
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The cyber field as a whole.
Ashley McGlone:
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I've heard stats, you get different
Ashley McGlone:
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numbers, like millions of openings
Ashley McGlone:
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that'll go unfilled, right?
Ashley McGlone:
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And then when you get into niche
Ashley McGlone:
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areas like this, where it's a
Ashley McGlone:
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hybrid of IT and OT coming together
Ashley McGlone:
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with cyber in the skillset,
Ashley McGlone:
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it is a niche skillset area.
Ashley McGlone:
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What a lot of companies are going
Ashley McGlone:
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to end up doing because they
Ashley McGlone:
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can't afford a senior person in
Ashley McGlone:
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that space, cuz manufacturing
Ashley McGlone:
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budgets are always tight,
Ashley McGlone:
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especially when it comes to
Ashley McGlone:
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staffing for something like this.
Ashley McGlone:
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A lot of times you're going to
Ashley McGlone:
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hire people straight out of college
Ashley McGlone:
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and there's gonna be a lot of O
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J T a lot of on-the-job training.
Ashley McGlone:
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There's some resources
Ashley McGlone:
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I'll talk about later that
Ashley McGlone:
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can really help with that.
Luigi Tiano:
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Yeah,
Luigi Tiano:
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that's very good.
Luigi Tiano:
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Before we move on to the next
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question, anything else you
Luigi Tiano:
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wanna say about visibility in
Luigi Tiano:
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OT environments or you wanna,
Luigi Tiano:
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we can circle back at the end?
Ashley McGlone:
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I think
Ashley McGlone:
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I'm good on there for now.
Luigi Tiano:
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All right.
Luigi Tiano:
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All right.
Luigi Tiano:
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So you mentioned a lot of
Luigi Tiano:
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companies are just getting started.
Luigi Tiano:
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So if you've seen this, you've
Luigi Tiano:
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obviously lived this through
Luigi Tiano:
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conversations with your clients.
Luigi Tiano:
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How does a company get started?
Luigi Tiano:
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If you're a manufacturing
Luigi Tiano:
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company, just listening to
Luigi Tiano:
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this podcast at random, how
Luigi Tiano:
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does the company get started?
Luigi Tiano:
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Where do they look,
Luigi Tiano:
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what do they do?
Ashley McGlone:
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Number one,
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you're not alone, especially if
Ashley McGlone:
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you're in the smaller tier space.
Ashley McGlone:
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There are a lot of bigger companies
Ashley McGlone:
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who have already walked this path.
Ashley McGlone:
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They've crafted best practices.
Ashley McGlone:
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They put that into guidance.
Ashley McGlone:
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You may have heard of the
Ashley McGlone:
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Purdue model for the structuring
Ashley McGlone:
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of systems in manufacturing
Ashley McGlone:
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or industrial environment.
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You take another layer to the I S
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A I E C, more alphabet here, 6 2
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4 43 and we'll have links in the
Ashley McGlone:
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show notes for folks to this stuff.
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But ISA 6 2 4 43 is the
Ashley McGlone:
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international standard for
Ashley McGlone:
00:12:55
cybersecurity practices in
Ashley McGlone:
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a manufacturing environment.
Ashley McGlone:
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It's gonna help you
Ashley McGlone:
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categorize and sort through.
Ashley McGlone:
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If I'm just staring at I-beams
Ashley McGlone:
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and network cables and equipment,
Ashley McGlone:
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how do I make sense of this?
Ashley McGlone:
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Where do I draw the lines virtually
Ashley McGlone:
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for, how do I organize this
Ashley McGlone:
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into an actual cyber strategy
Ashley McGlone:
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for my industrial environment?
Ashley McGlone:
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So it's gonna have a five
Ashley McGlone:
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layer stack that goes from top
Ashley McGlone:
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traditional kind of IT systems,
Ashley McGlone:
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running Windows and Linux and
Ashley McGlone:
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such, all the way down to those
Ashley McGlone:
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lower tier devices that are
Ashley McGlone:
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running some type of firmware
Ashley McGlone:
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maybe that you need to monitor
Ashley McGlone:
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or maybe it's just a dial that's
Ashley McGlone:
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controlling something all the way
Ashley McGlone:
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down the sensors and actuators.
Ashley McGlone:
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They've carved that out.
Ashley McGlone:
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They've identified, okay,
Ashley McGlone:
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here's the vocabulary you
Ashley McGlone:
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even used to talk about it.
Ashley McGlone:
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I've got a security level
Ashley McGlone:
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target that I want to get to.
Ashley McGlone:
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Here's the security level
Ashley McGlone:
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capability of what we can do today.
Ashley McGlone:
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Then that gives us this
Ashley McGlone:
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gap that we need to close
Ashley McGlone:
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and zones and conduits.
Ashley McGlone:
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Here are machines that are
Ashley McGlone:
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going to be compensating
Ashley McGlone:
00:14:01
controls, we can't update them.
Ashley McGlone:
00:14:03
So they're gonna get firewalled
Ashley McGlone:
00:14:04
or air gaped over here.
Ashley McGlone:
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That's a zone.
Ashley McGlone:
00:14:06
Then a conduit's that network
Ashley McGlone:
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connection coming in and
Ashley McGlone:
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out of there for firewall
Ashley McGlone:
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connections, so to speak.
Ashley McGlone:
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You've got network segmentation
Ashley McGlone:
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between the carpet and the cement.
Ashley McGlone:
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So between IT and OT, making
Ashley McGlone:
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sure you've got the right
Ashley McGlone:
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firewalls in place and if Mary
Ashley McGlone:
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in accounting clicks a phishing
Ashley McGlone:
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link, it doesn't take down
Ashley McGlone:
00:14:24
manufacturing and vice versa.
Ashley McGlone:
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There's a lot here and
Ashley McGlone:
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there's a lot of precedent.
Ashley McGlone:
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If you're just getting started,
Ashley McGlone:
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there's a lot of resources
Ashley McGlone:
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available to help you.
Ashley McGlone:
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There's a deep bench with
Ashley McGlone:
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consulting practices and providers
Ashley McGlone:
00:14:39
like yourself who have done
Ashley McGlone:
00:14:40
work in this space, who can
Ashley McGlone:
00:14:42
really help people first off
Ashley McGlone:
00:14:44
to get oriented and that's what
Ashley McGlone:
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I've noticed a lot of the calls
Ashley McGlone:
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that I've had even recently is
Ashley McGlone:
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just helping people understand
Ashley McGlone:
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where do I take that first step?
Luigi Tiano:
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Yeah and
Luigi Tiano:
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these standards, I'll
Luigi Tiano:
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just say numbers again.
Luigi Tiano:
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So ISA i e c 6 2 4 43.
Luigi Tiano:
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I think these international
Luigi Tiano:
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standards force both the IT and
Luigi Tiano:
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the OT folks, so you said process
Luigi Tiano:
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engineer first to work together
Luigi Tiano:
00:15:06
and merge those processes.
Luigi Tiano:
00:15:07
As much as they are different, I
Luigi Tiano:
00:15:09
think these standards are extremely
Luigi Tiano:
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important and should be adopted
Luigi Tiano:
00:15:12
obviously by these organizations
Luigi Tiano:
00:15:14
because if there's a skillset
Luigi Tiano:
00:15:15
gap from a process wise, this
Luigi Tiano:
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forces them to work together.
Luigi Tiano:
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So we're seeing this
Luigi Tiano:
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across the board.
Luigi Tiano:
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I'm glad you brought that up
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because I think it's important
Luigi Tiano:
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that individuals know this.
Luigi Tiano:
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The standard, obviously
Luigi Tiano:
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you're well-versed in it.
Luigi Tiano:
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Is this something you get to
Luigi Tiano:
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stamp once and then you have
Luigi Tiano:
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yearly checks or do you know
Luigi Tiano:
00:15:30
how long this standard would
Luigi Tiano:
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last within an organization?
Ashley McGlone:
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In the realm
Ashley McGlone:
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of regulations, compliance,
Ashley McGlone:
00:15:36
attestations, this is just a
Ashley McGlone:
00:15:39
standard that's a recommendation
Ashley McGlone:
00:15:42
that you should align to.
Ashley McGlone:
00:15:44
I would say that it's not enforced,
Ashley McGlone:
00:15:47
but when things like we're seeing
Ashley McGlone:
00:15:49
in EMEA right now with the Nist 2
Ashley McGlone:
00:15:52
is actually coming in and putting
Ashley McGlone:
00:15:54
teeth to some of this to actually
Ashley McGlone:
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enforce it and putting penalties
Ashley McGlone:
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there where there weren't, before.
Ashley McGlone:
00:16:01
For the last 20 years, ISA
Ashley McGlone:
00:16:03
62443 has just been a standard.
Ashley McGlone:
00:16:05
Hey, this is a good
Ashley McGlone:
00:16:05
way to think about it.
Ashley McGlone:
00:16:07
The design and framework
Ashley McGlone:
00:16:08
give the industry a common
Ashley McGlone:
00:16:10
vocabulary and put training
Ashley McGlone:
00:16:12
and resources behind it.
Ashley McGlone:
00:16:14
Yeah it's actually got a little
Ashley McGlone:
00:16:16
more legs now, with the headlines
Ashley McGlone:
00:16:18
over the last few years.
Luigi Tiano:
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Just to touch
Luigi Tiano:
00:16:20
on that, when we talk about
Luigi Tiano:
00:16:20
regulatory compliance for us as an
Luigi Tiano:
00:16:22
organization, especially when we're
Luigi Tiano:
00:16:23
talking with clients, when you
Luigi Tiano:
00:16:25
abide by or conform to a specific
Luigi Tiano:
00:16:27
standard, you earn the right to
Luigi Tiano:
00:16:29
do business with more partners.
Luigi Tiano:
00:16:30
If you don't have the controls
Luigi Tiano:
00:16:31
in place, that's fine.
Luigi Tiano:
00:16:31
But if you want to continue to
Luigi Tiano:
00:16:32
conduct business with certain
Luigi Tiano:
00:16:34
entities, you're gonna be required
Luigi Tiano:
00:16:36
to show that you actually meet
Luigi Tiano:
00:16:37
a certain level of standards.
Luigi Tiano:
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Whether it's enforced legally
Luigi Tiano:
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or not, I think more and more
Luigi Tiano:
00:16:40
companies are just gonna abide by
Luigi Tiano:
00:16:42
a specific standard cause they want
Luigi Tiano:
00:16:43
to continue to do business or earn
Luigi Tiano:
00:16:45
the right with certain enterprises
Luigi Tiano:
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that they once could not do that.
Ashley McGlone:
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You're
Ashley McGlone:
00:16:48
describing supply chain risk.
Luigi Tiano:
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There you go.
Ashley McGlone:
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And that is top
Ashley McGlone:
00:16:52
of mind for everybody right now.
Ashley McGlone:
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I remember when I used to work
Ashley McGlone:
00:16:55
for Toyota, for example, the
Ashley McGlone:
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automotive seat supplier, the
Ashley McGlone:
00:16:59
seats would come in off the semi
Ashley McGlone:
00:17:02
truck in the order that cars were
Ashley McGlone:
00:17:03
going down the assembly line.
Ashley McGlone:
00:17:06
If that seat supplier then had
Ashley McGlone:
00:17:08
a cyber breach, even if there's
Ashley McGlone:
00:17:10
nothing cyber in the seat itself,
Ashley McGlone:
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if they were victim to ransomware
Ashley McGlone:
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and that supply paused, it would
Ashley McGlone:
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pause the cars going down the line.
Ashley McGlone:
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Even if you make wiring harnesses
Ashley McGlone:
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that have no embedded technology.
Ashley McGlone:
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If you can't supply those
Ashley McGlone:
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because you've been breached,
Ashley McGlone:
00:17:27
you're gonna impact all
Ashley McGlone:
00:17:28
your supply chain partners.
Ashley McGlone:
00:17:30
So whether or not you think
Ashley McGlone:
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it applies to you, it does.
Luigi Tiano:
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Exactly.
Luigi Tiano:
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Got another question here
Luigi Tiano:
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about OT environments.
Luigi Tiano:
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We see such a diverse
Luigi Tiano:
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mix of devices.
Luigi Tiano:
00:17:40
How do you manage all those types
Luigi Tiano:
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of devices with one solution?
Luigi Tiano:
00:17:42
Is it even possible?
Ashley McGlone:
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It's not, no.
Ashley McGlone:
00:17:46
I tell you the more people I talk
Ashley McGlone:
00:17:48
to, whether it's partners, other
Ashley McGlone:
00:17:50
vendors prospects and customers
Ashley McGlone:
00:17:53
in this space, everybody's
Ashley McGlone:
00:17:55
looking for a silver bullet.
Ashley McGlone:
00:17:57
There is no one software solution
Ashley McGlone:
00:17:59
that's gonna give you that
Ashley McGlone:
00:18:00
ultimate visibility control
Ashley McGlone:
00:18:03
from one end to the other.
Ashley McGlone:
00:18:04
Today, it doesn't exist.
Ashley McGlone:
00:18:06
What you will find though,
Ashley McGlone:
00:18:08
is what I prefer to call
Ashley McGlone:
00:18:09
strategic platform partnerships.
Ashley McGlone:
00:18:12
Now, don't get me wrong.
Ashley McGlone:
00:18:13
There are some companies out there
Ashley McGlone:
00:18:14
that say, yeah, we do IT, and OT.
Ashley McGlone:
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But you've gotta dig a little
Ashley McGlone:
00:18:19
deeper below the marketing
Ashley McGlone:
00:18:21
messaging and say, okay, what
Ashley McGlone:
00:18:22
exactly do you do in IT and OT?
Ashley McGlone:
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Maybe you only scan for
Ashley McGlone:
00:18:27
vulnerabilities and that's it.
Ashley McGlone:
00:18:29
It doesn't stop there.
Ashley McGlone:
00:18:30
I need to fix those
Ashley McGlone:
00:18:31
vulnerabilities, right?
Ashley McGlone:
00:18:32
I need to enforce policy
Ashley McGlone:
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on those works stations.
Ashley McGlone:
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I got Windows and Linux that
Ashley McGlone:
00:18:36
I need to manage firewall and
Ashley McGlone:
00:18:38
disc encryption and things
Ashley McGlone:
00:18:39
like that, on the plant floor.
Ashley McGlone:
00:18:41
It goes beyond just a narrow
Ashley McGlone:
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feature matrix to actually a broad
Ashley McGlone:
00:18:45
set of full manageability for
Ashley McGlone:
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the plant floor from IT and OT
Ashley McGlone:
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and where that convergence meets.
Ashley McGlone:
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What I'm seeing today is as I
Ashley McGlone:
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talk to people who are in this
Ashley McGlone:
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starting process, they are actively
Ashley McGlone:
00:18:59
investigating vendors that do
Ashley McGlone:
00:19:02
like port spanning on the network.
Ashley McGlone:
00:19:04
There's dozens of vendors in this
Ashley McGlone:
00:19:06
space that'll listen and find those
Ashley McGlone:
00:19:08
devices passively on the network.
Ashley McGlone:
00:19:11
Then there's need for some
Ashley McGlone:
00:19:12
active scanning as well, cuz
Ashley McGlone:
00:19:13
some of those devices will never
Ashley McGlone:
00:19:14
initiate a network connection.
Ashley McGlone:
00:19:17
Then you've got your traditional
Ashley McGlone:
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distributed control systems
Ashley McGlone:
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vendors like Siemens and
Ashley McGlone:
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Rockwell and Honeywell and GE.
Ashley McGlone:
00:19:23
I could name those for a while.
Ashley McGlone:
00:19:24
You've got all those
Ashley McGlone:
00:19:25
vendors who have their own
Ashley McGlone:
00:19:27
cybersecurity practices as well.
Ashley McGlone:
00:19:29
What I typically recommend,
Ashley McGlone:
00:19:31
you know what we do is helping
Ashley McGlone:
00:19:33
people with visibility on
Ashley McGlone:
00:19:34
the top tier of that model.
Ashley McGlone:
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So the Windows and Linux
Ashley McGlone:
00:19:38
devices, we can give you all
Ashley McGlone:
00:19:40
the capability you need there.
Ashley McGlone:
00:19:42
Let's take that and use some
Ashley McGlone:
00:19:43
common backend like Splunk or
Ashley McGlone:
00:19:46
ServiceNow or Microsoft Sentinel.
Ashley McGlone:
00:19:48
Some type of sim source
Ashley McGlone:
00:19:50
solution, C M D B.
Ashley McGlone:
00:19:52
Let's take all that Tanium data,
Ashley McGlone:
00:19:53
put it in there, and then take
Ashley McGlone:
00:19:55
your other solutions in this space
Ashley McGlone:
00:19:58
that most of them are already
Ashley McGlone:
00:19:59
pre-wired for ServiceNow or
Ashley McGlone:
00:20:02
Splunk, something on the backend.
Ashley McGlone:
00:20:04
Then, use that backend for that
Ashley McGlone:
00:20:06
end-to-end visibility and control
Ashley McGlone:
00:20:08
for your IT OT SOC experience.
Luigi Tiano:
00:20:12
Interesting.
Luigi Tiano:
00:20:13
So what I heard was, form a
Luigi Tiano:
00:20:15
strategic platform of partnerships.
Luigi Tiano:
00:20:18
Make sure you've got a bunch
Luigi Tiano:
00:20:19
of partners that can then
Luigi Tiano:
00:20:20
fill those needs cuz there's
Luigi Tiano:
00:20:21
just no silver bullet.
Ashley McGlone:
00:20:22
So the benefit
Ashley McGlone:
00:20:23
there is, rather than having
Ashley McGlone:
00:20:25
a dozen solutions with a dozen
Ashley McGlone:
00:20:28
integration points in this matrix
Ashley McGlone:
00:20:30
of integrations, you can really
Ashley McGlone:
00:20:33
optimize that down to just a
Ashley McGlone:
00:20:34
few strategic integrations,
Ashley McGlone:
00:20:37
which is gonna make it easier
Ashley McGlone:
00:20:38
to maintain in the long term.
Luigi Tiano:
00:20:40
Got it.
Luigi Tiano:
00:20:41
Very good.
Luigi Tiano:
00:20:41
One last question cuz then
Luigi Tiano:
00:20:42
I wanna talk a little bit
Luigi Tiano:
00:20:43
about what you do and maybe
Luigi Tiano:
00:20:44
how your platform could help.
Luigi Tiano:
00:20:45
You've mentioned a lot of things
Luigi Tiano:
00:20:46
here and obviously I wanna give
Luigi Tiano:
00:20:47
you the time to talk about that.
Luigi Tiano:
00:20:49
What resources are available
Luigi Tiano:
00:20:50
to help companies today?
Luigi Tiano:
00:20:51
We talked about how
Luigi Tiano:
00:20:51
they get started.
Luigi Tiano:
00:20:52
Obviously a bunch of stuff online,
Luigi Tiano:
00:20:54
but what would you recommend?
Ashley McGlone:
00:20:56
There's
Ashley McGlone:
00:20:56
always the free and easy
Ashley McGlone:
00:20:57
Wikipedia and YouTube, right?
Ashley McGlone:
00:20:58
You can learn anything on
Ashley McGlone:
00:21:00
Wikipedia and YouTube and there's
Ashley McGlone:
00:21:01
a ton of open, stuff like that.
Ashley McGlone:
00:21:03
But if you're willing to invest,
Ashley McGlone:
00:21:05
even just looking at the open,
Ashley McGlone:
00:21:06
free resources, I would go
Ashley McGlone:
00:21:08
straight to the SANS Institute.
Ashley McGlone:
00:21:10
SANS has been around for years and
Ashley McGlone:
00:21:12
everybody knows them as the source
Ashley McGlone:
00:21:14
of trusted security training.
Ashley McGlone:
00:21:16
SANS has a whole program for
Ashley McGlone:
00:21:17
industrial controls, SANS ICS.
Ashley
McGlone:
00:21:21
S A N S I C S.
Ashley McGlone:
00:21:23
Just put that in your search
Ashley McGlone:
00:21:24
engine and we've got some links
Ashley McGlone:
00:21:26
in the show notes here as well.
Luigi Tiano:
00:21:27
We're definitely gonna
Luigi Tiano:
00:21:28
share a lot of that information.
Luigi Tiano:
00:21:29
You sent me some stuff for
Luigi Tiano:
00:21:30
the show here, which is great.
Ashley McGlone:
00:21:31
Yeah,
Ashley McGlone:
00:21:32
they've got an I C S guide.
Ashley McGlone:
00:21:34
Industrial controls guide for
Ashley McGlone:
00:21:35
recommended controls to start.
Ashley McGlone:
00:21:37
Things about having an
Ashley McGlone:
00:21:38
incident response plan.
Ashley McGlone:
00:21:40
Sure we have one of those for
Ashley McGlone:
00:21:41
IT, but do you have it for
Ashley McGlone:
00:21:42
your industrial environment?
Ashley McGlone:
00:21:44
Just knowing who to call,
Ashley McGlone:
00:21:46
where do I get my inventory?
Ashley McGlone:
00:21:48
Where are all the firewalls?
Ashley McGlone:
00:21:49
And who's controlling those things?
Ashley McGlone:
00:21:51
Having that incident response
Ashley McGlone:
00:21:53
plan, a defensible architecture,
Ashley McGlone:
00:21:54
network visibility monitoring,
Ashley McGlone:
00:21:57
secure remote access, and then
Ashley McGlone:
00:22:00
even risk based vulnerability
Ashley McGlone:
00:22:02
management, which prioritizes
Ashley McGlone:
00:22:04
not just saying, here's all the
Ashley McGlone:
00:22:05
volumes, but here's the ones that
Ashley McGlone:
00:22:07
are prioritized for our equipment
Ashley McGlone:
00:22:09
with our environment where we
Ashley McGlone:
00:22:11
know that they are exposed.
Ashley McGlone:
00:22:12
They have a really good guide
Ashley McGlone:
00:22:15
that you can download for
Ashley McGlone:
00:22:16
free just to get started.
Ashley McGlone:
00:22:17
But they have a whole
Ashley McGlone:
00:22:18
suite of courses.
Ashley McGlone:
00:22:19
And I'm not compensated for
Ashley McGlone:
00:22:21
this either, by the way.
Ashley McGlone:
00:22:22
Just I've seen that they have
Ashley McGlone:
00:22:23
some fantastic instructors who
Ashley McGlone:
00:22:26
are writing, designing, living
Ashley McGlone:
00:22:28
this every day, getting real
Ashley McGlone:
00:22:30
world training out there to
Ashley McGlone:
00:22:31
the people that need it most.
Ashley McGlone:
00:22:32
Even if you're taking somebody
Ashley McGlone:
00:22:34
off the street without this kind
Ashley McGlone:
00:22:36
of background in their portfolio,
Ashley McGlone:
00:22:38
you can send them to these
Ashley McGlone:
00:22:39
classes, get them some hands
Ashley McGlone:
00:22:41
on with this technology and get
Ashley McGlone:
00:22:42
'em trained up and ready to go.
Luigi Tiano:
00:22:44
Even if you're not
Luigi Tiano:
00:22:45
getting compensated, I think you've
Luigi Tiano:
00:22:46
obviously demonstrated a wealth
Luigi Tiano:
00:22:48
of knowledge in this industry.
Luigi Tiano:
00:22:49
So if you're saying SANS ICS
Luigi Tiano:
00:22:51
is a good place to start,
Luigi Tiano:
00:22:52
that's where I would start.
Luigi Tiano:
00:22:53
Thanks for that, Ashley.
Luigi Tiano:
00:22:54
Before we wrap, obviously,
Luigi Tiano:
00:22:56
you work at Tanium.
Luigi Tiano:
00:22:56
I see the background there.
Luigi Tiano:
00:22:57
Maybe just tell us a little
Luigi Tiano:
00:22:58
bit about how Tanium could
Luigi Tiano:
00:22:59
help an organization.
Luigi Tiano:
00:23:00
You've shared time with
Luigi Tiano:
00:23:01
us and I appreciate that.
Luigi Tiano:
00:23:02
So I need to give you some
Luigi Tiano:
00:23:03
time to tell us how Tanium
Luigi Tiano:
00:23:05
could potentially help.
Ashley McGlone:
00:23:06
Sure.
Ashley McGlone:
00:23:07
Tanium is a real-time endpoint
Ashley McGlone:
00:23:08
management platform for visibility
Ashley McGlone:
00:23:11
and control at speed and scale,
Ashley McGlone:
00:23:13
all those marketing terms, right?
Ashley McGlone:
00:23:15
But basically what that means is
Ashley McGlone:
00:23:16
we have a unique architecture that
Ashley McGlone:
00:23:19
allows us literally in seconds to
Ashley McGlone:
00:23:22
get information from any system.
Ashley McGlone:
00:23:25
Windows, Mac, Linux, even Solaris,
Ashley McGlone:
00:23:27
and AIX that has an ip, it's
Ashley McGlone:
00:23:30
connected, it's on the network.
Ashley McGlone:
00:23:31
We can get that real time
Ashley McGlone:
00:23:33
visibility of your environment.
Ashley McGlone:
00:23:35
If you're wanting to know what are
Ashley McGlone:
00:23:37
all the machines in my working from
Ashley McGlone:
00:23:39
home, office area, on the plant
Ashley McGlone:
00:23:42
floor, as long as it's running one
Ashley McGlone:
00:23:44
of those OSs and it's got an ip,
Ashley McGlone:
00:23:46
it's got Tanium client installed,
Ashley McGlone:
00:23:48
then we can get you the richest
Ashley McGlone:
00:23:51
data you've ever seen in real time.
Ashley McGlone:
00:23:53
So we can scan for vulnerabilities,
Ashley McGlone:
00:23:55
we can patch, we can manage policy,
Ashley McGlone:
00:23:57
we can do threat detection and
Ashley McGlone:
00:23:59
response, and a whole list of
Ashley McGlone:
00:24:02
capabilities that gives you a very
Ashley McGlone:
00:24:04
wide feature matrix to manage the
Ashley McGlone:
00:24:07
top half of that OT stack, right?
Ashley McGlone:
00:24:09
Where you've got windows and
Ashley McGlone:
00:24:10
Linux machines out there that are
Ashley McGlone:
00:24:12
running what matters most to you.
Ashley McGlone:
00:24:15
I've had customers tell us,
Ashley McGlone:
00:24:16
when they put traditional
Ashley McGlone:
00:24:18
IT tools in there, they need
Ashley McGlone:
00:24:19
multiple tools to do that.
Ashley McGlone:
00:24:21
It's a performance hit on
Ashley McGlone:
00:24:23
the endpoint, but Tanium's
Ashley McGlone:
00:24:25
a single agent that
Ashley McGlone:
00:24:26
covers multiple tool sets.
Ashley McGlone:
00:24:28
With that platform approach then,
Ashley McGlone:
00:24:30
you can reduce the impact on often
Ashley McGlone:
00:24:33
under-resourced hardware profiles
Ashley McGlone:
00:24:35
on these manufacturing machines.
Ashley McGlone:
00:24:38
We've seen some real benefit
Ashley McGlone:
00:24:39
there as well as the actual
Ashley McGlone:
00:24:40
technology, what we're doing to
Ashley McGlone:
00:24:42
manage and secure that environment.
Luigi Tiano:
00:24:45
Fantastic.
Luigi Tiano:
00:24:46
So it's all about visibility and
Luigi Tiano:
00:24:47
knowing what you own, because
Luigi Tiano:
00:24:48
you can't really protect if
Luigi Tiano:
00:24:49
you don't know you own it.
Ashley McGlone:
00:24:50
Exactly.
Luigi Tiano:
00:24:50
I know it's
Luigi Tiano:
00:24:51
cliche and we say it often,
Luigi Tiano:
00:24:52
but it's the fundamental truth.
Luigi Tiano:
00:24:53
If you don't know what exists
Luigi Tiano:
00:24:54
on your network then, how do
Luigi Tiano:
00:24:55
you know how to protect it or
Luigi Tiano:
00:24:57
mitigate the risk on those devices.
Luigi Tiano:
00:24:59
Ashley, I've learned a ton.
Luigi Tiano:
00:25:01
I'm sure the audience
Luigi Tiano:
00:25:02
is gonna love this.
Luigi Tiano:
00:25:03
We will be sharing a lot of
Luigi Tiano:
00:25:04
the links that you've sent us.
Luigi Tiano:
00:25:06
Before we go, anything else
Luigi Tiano:
00:25:07
you want to add because you've
Luigi Tiano:
00:25:08
given us a lot of your time
Luigi Tiano:
00:25:09
here and a lot of information.
Luigi Tiano:
00:25:11
If you got nothing else, I
Luigi Tiano:
00:25:12
just want to thank you and say,
Luigi Tiano:
00:25:13
hopefully we can do this again.
Luigi Tiano:
00:25:15
I'll close off with that.
Ashley McGlone:
00:25:17
Thanks
Ashley McGlone:
00:25:17
for the opportunity to
Ashley McGlone:
00:25:18
come on the show, Luigi.
Ashley McGlone:
00:25:19
I just wanna offer a word
Ashley McGlone:
00:25:20
of encouragement because
Ashley McGlone:
00:25:22
typically IT and OT are
Ashley McGlone:
00:25:23
separate silos in the business.
Ashley McGlone:
00:25:26
Only a few places where they're
Ashley McGlone:
00:25:27
actually integrated with a
Ashley McGlone:
00:25:29
common vision, common governance.
Ashley McGlone:
00:25:31
It takes work to get
Ashley McGlone:
00:25:33
there and it's worth it.
Ashley McGlone:
00:25:35
Your business depends on it.
Ashley McGlone:
00:25:36
Your livelihood, your family
Ashley McGlone:
00:25:38
that you support with the income
Ashley McGlone:
00:25:39
that you make at your employer.
Ashley McGlone:
00:25:41
You want to keep that secure for
Ashley McGlone:
00:25:42
your own interest, but also for
Ashley McGlone:
00:25:44
the business and for all the people
Ashley McGlone:
00:25:45
that are served by that business.
Ashley McGlone:
00:25:47
It really is worth the effort
Ashley McGlone:
00:25:50
to spend the time and to do
Ashley McGlone:
00:25:52
the research and to get your
Ashley McGlone:
00:25:53
program started, if you don't
Ashley McGlone:
00:25:55
have one because security
Ashley McGlone:
00:25:56
is not an option here.
Luigi Tiano:
00:25:58
Time is now.
Luigi Tiano:
00:25:58
You gotta get started.
Luigi Tiano:
00:26:00
Ashley, it's been a pleasure.
Luigi Tiano:
00:26:01
Thank you very much.
Luigi Tiano:
00:26:02
Hope to talk to you again soon.
Ashley McGlone:
00:26:04
Take care.
Luigi Tiano:
00:26:05
Thank you.
Luigi Tiano:
00:26:05
Bye-bye.