Lorrie Cranor, Director and Bosch Distinguished Professor in Security and Privacy Technologies at Carnegie Mellon University's CyLab, joins the Nexus podcast to discuss an IoT security and privacy label initiative under way at CyLab. The labels are meant not only to help consumers make informed buying decisions, but also to nudge vendors and manufacturers closer toward delivering secure smart devices to market. 

Skip Sorrels, director of cybersecurity at Ascension Technologies, which oversees the technology needs for Ascension Healthcare, one of the country’s biggest non-profit healthcare providers, joins the Nexus podcast to discuss the 405(d) Task Group's  Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices (HICP).

The HICP identifies top cybersecurity threats to the healthcare industry, and 10 blocking-and-tackling mitigation practices and sub-practices aimed at not only larger, more resourced organizations, but also smaller healthcare providers.

Dave Elfering, senior vice president at Marsh, a global insurance broker and risk management company, joins the Nexus podcast to discuss the current state of cyber insurance. A longtime figure in information security, Elfering explains the current volatility around coverage, premiums, and exclusions. He goes deep into what can sometimes be contentious discussions about qualifications and controls that must be implemented in order to be eligible for coverage, in addition to policy exclusions. 

Team82 researcher Vera Mens joins the Nexus podcast to discuss her research that uncovered 13 vulnerabilities in the popular Akuvox E11 smart intercoms. These devices are used to control access to offices, residential, and commercial establishments. The vulnerabilities range in severity, and pose serious privacy implications for users. Vera will discuss her research and a challenging disclosure withe vendor that began 15 months ago. 
Read Team82's technical report on this research here.
Read Team82's blog here. 

Adm. Mike Rogers, USN (Ret.) joins the Nexus podcast to discuss the recently released National Cybersecurity Strategy, the first such strategy from the Biden administration. The strategy codifies many of the cyber-physical systems security initiatives the White House has produced since 2021 in the aftermath of the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack. Adm. Rogers shares his past contributions to previous strategies, and provides insight into the document's five pillars and how they will impact critical infrastructure security in the near term. 

Katherine Gronberg, head of government services at cybersecurity venture capital firm NightDragon, joins the Nexus Podcast to discuss what's driving the federal government's renewed interest and investment in OT and IoT cybersecurity. Katherine brings insight from her unique perspective on these issues, especially as it pertains to upcoming requirements facing asset owners and operators, how vendors must respond to mandates put out by the White House, and what might be in the impending national cybersecurity strategy from the  White House Office of the National Cyber Director. 

Claroty Team82 researcher Noam Moshe joins the podcast to discuss his recent research and development of a generic bypass of leading vendors' web application firewalls.
This research was presented at Black Hat Europe and on the Team82 blog.  The technique involves prepending JSON syntax to a SQL injection payload. Prior to this research, WAFs were blind to JSON syntax and would not flag these payloads as malicious. 
All of the leading vendors have since added JSON support to their SQL injection processes. 

Claroty Team82 Director of Research Sharon Brizinov joins the podcast to discuss the recent Pwn2Own Toronto event. Brizinov was successful in three categories at the event, finding and exploiting zero day vulnerabilities in two network-attached storage devices and a popular router. 

In this episode, Brizinov explains his preparation for the contest, and compares and contrasts hacking industrial control systems and internet of things connected devices. 

Joe Slowik, threat intelligence and detections lead at Gigamon, joins the podcast to discuss the XENOTIME hacking group, the entity believed to be responsible for the 2017 Triton attack.
Triton was deployed within a petrochemical facility in Saudi Arabia and triggered a fault in the Schneider Electric Triconex Safety Instrumented Systems that initiated a shutdown of the plant. The Triton intrusion and malware deployment could have been much worse, resulting in harmful physical consequences and loss of life.
Slowik's recent Virus Bulletin paper and presentation describes the complex ecosystem behind XENOTIME, its connections to Russian intelligence, and the tooling it built enabling the Triton attack and deployment.
One question does linger: Who wrote Triton?  

Team82's Noam Moshe, one of the researchers involved in developing the EvilPLC attack, discusses the technique of using a weaponized programmable logic controller to compromise an engineer's workstation and gain access to other PLCs on the OT network.

Read more about the EvilPLC technique
Download Team82's paper on EvilPLC