Dragos CEO and founder Robert M. Lee has been talking about cybersecurity risks to critical infrastructure long before threats to utility operators and water plants were making headlines. In this episode of WE'RE IN!, he discusses the ongoing dangers to the grid from nation-state hackers and ransomware gangs, but also the progress the U.S. is making to better secure its most vulnerable assets. And there's also a great conversation about pay transparency that anyone working in infosec will want to hear. 

A few more reasons to listen:

*It's a candid and sobering interview with one of the world's leading experts on industrial cybersecurity.

*You might be surprised how Dragos approaches pay transparency, hiring and job interviews. 

*Better understand how critical infrastructure operators should approach cybersecurity differently from enterprise technology. 

Key quotes:

* "If you are an oil and gas pipeline or a manufacturing company, and you haven't had ransomware scenarios at a board level with an understanding of what you're doing specifically in OT, your liability and your lawsuit is going to be bad."

* "One hundred percent of our engineers are in the United States. We don't outsource anything where they're related to our product, because if we're deploying software into nuclear power plants and similar, I'd like control of the supply chain."

* "We've been talking about cyber at a presidential, international leader, board level for a long time. But they never knew they needed to differentiate between IT and OT. And now they're realizing all the resources have been spent on the non-revenue generating side of the business and they're going, "Holy crap! What's our OT cybersecurity strategy?"

Links:

* https://www.dragos.com/

* https://www.synack.com/

* https://readme.security/