Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Join us for this week's Defender Fridays as we explore the builder mindset in cybersecurity with Andrew Cook, CTO at Recon InfoSec. At Defender Fridays, we delve into the dynamic world of information security, exploring its defensive side with seasoned professionals from across the industry. Our aim is simple yet ambitious: to foster a collaborative space where ideas flow freely, experiences are shared, and knowledge expands.

Public 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.

Justin Searle, Director of ICS Security at InGuardians, joins us today to talk about the challenges facing industrial control system security. With increased attack surface areas and maintaining and updating decades-old systems, Justin's dedication to informing and educating newcomers and experts alike is more important now than ever before.

In this episode, Corey Nachreiner interviews WatchGuard Cybersecurity Analyst and Threat Emulation & Investigations Lead, Kristen Yang, about the path into cybersecurity, the evolution from threat hunting to leading investigations, and the realities of defending against modern attacks. They explore today’s threat landscape, incident response mistakes, red teaming lessons, MITRE ATT&CK, AI in security, and the skills analysts need most, plus a rapid-fire round to close things out.

On this week's episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, Stel Valavanis, founder of onShore Networks, argues that AI is a significant milestone but does not change where security is headed. He puts AI alongside the Internet and TCP/IP and makes the case that the path forward is clear: fully embrace it as a tool, regardless of which side of the equation you are on. He also points out that agentic and automated AI was already being deployed well before LLMs arrived.

Today we're speaking with Stel Valavanis, Founder and Chairman at onShore Networks and Co-Founder at The Gallery Building, about sustaining a security company over three decades of industry changes. We also dive into investing in start ups and how founders can think long term about governance and growth.