Making your ICS/OT environments cyber secure, with Dragos’ Lesley Carhart

07/22/24 • 45 min

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In this episode of the Cyber Uncut podcast, Lesley Carhart, director of incident response for North America at Dragos, joins host Liam Garman to unpack how businesses can improve their ICS/OT cyber processes, before giving some tangible advice for business leaders on how they can build their incident response plans.

The pair begin the podcast by unpacking some common and emerging threat trends being observed across ICS environments and how companies need to build a bridge between IT and OT teams to protect assets.
Carhart then details why OT security is so immature relative to IT security and shares some practical steps that organisations must take to protect their ICS.
The podcast wraps up with some tangible advice on how businesses can build incident response plans, ensuring that they can streamline the resumption of operations in the event of a cyber incident.

Enjoy the podcast, The Cyber Uncut team

The pair begin the podcast by unpacking some common and emerging threat trends being observed across ICS environments and how companies need to build a bridge between IT and OT teams to protect assets.
Carhart then details why OT security is so immature relative to IT security and shares some practical steps that organisations must take to protect their ICS.
The podcast wraps up with some tangible advice on how businesses can build incident response plans, ensuring that they can streamline the resumption of operations in the event of a cyber incident.

Enjoy the podcast, The Cyber Uncut team

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