Winston Churchill famously stated that, “Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”
His concerns about applying lessons learned to post WWII foreign policy initiatives rings just as true in the current cybersecurity climate. So, in an effort to ensure we repeat as few of 2024’s mistakes in 2025, we’re going to take a look at some of the industrial sector’s biggest exploits, and offer solutions and strategies in our ever-raging combat with the Black Hats. Watch/listen as we cover:
- A unique supply chain hack that came up during our conversation with Theo Zafirakos, a Cyber Risk and Information Security Expert at Fortra.
- The fall of 2024 brought security compromises to the front door of a number of prominent industrial enterprises, including Halliburton.
- In early August millions were impacted when National Public Data, a major data broker that performs background checks, reported that 2.9 billion personal records from over a million individuals in the U.S., the U.K. and Canada were accessed.
- Ford Motor Company was also a target, with a data breach that saw hacking groups steal 44,000 records containing personal and product information.
- Anna Wells, executive editor of Manufacturing.net and Manufacturing Business Technology, brought us coverage of a hack that has crippled a global beverage maker.
- We close out with a story from early this year describing how some of the basic tools found throughout a manufacturing plant can become pathways for the innovative hacker.
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To catch up on past episodes, you can go to Manufacturing.net, IEN.com or MBTmag.com. You can also check Security Breach out wherever you get your podcasts, including Apple, Amazon and Overcast.
If you have a cybersecurity story or topic that you’d like to have us explore on Security Breach, you can reach me at jeff@ien.com.
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