Once More Unto the Breach: Protecting Embedded Systems and Public Infrastructure

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Securing embedded systems presents unique and complex challenges when it comes to organizing and assessing software assets during assurance activities. The closed source nature of the supply chain and volume of differing components has made this a onerous and costly activity

-- IIOT World

On this Very Special Episode of InSecurity, Matt Stephenson spoke with BlackBerry CTO Adam Boulton and IoT Security Services Lead Ian Todd about protecting embedded systems and how that applies to the automotive world and national public infrastructure. Do you know how to protect embedded systems? Do you know what they are? Do you know what that has to do with your water supply? These folks do… dig it

About Adam Boulton

Adam Boulton is a highly experienced and qualified software security professional, with over 15 years’ experience within security engineering. Having successfully accelerated through career progression, Adam is employed as the Chief Technology Officer for BlackBerry Technology Solutions

About Ian Todd

Ian Todd leads the BlackBerry IoT security services practice which has developed a set of security solutions for embedded systems across industries such as automotive, industrial, medical, defence and aerospace, transportation and robotics globally.

About Matt Stephenson

Insecurity Podcast host Matt Stephenson (@packmatt73) leads the Broadcast Media team at BlackBerry, which puts me in front of crowds, cameras, and microphones all over the world. I am the regular host of the InSecurity podcast and video series at events around the globe.

I have spent the last 10 years in the world of Data Protection and Cybersecurity. Since 2016, I have been with Cylance (now BlackBerry) extolling the virtues of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and how, when applied to network security, can wrong-foot the bad guys. Prior to the COVID shutdown, I was on the road over 100 days a year doing live malware demonstrations for audiences from San Diego to DC to London to Abu Dhabi to Singapore to Sydney. One of the funniest things I've ever been a part of was blowing up a live instance of NotPetya 6 hours after the news broke... in Washington DC... directly across the street from FBI HQ... as soon as we activated it a parade of police cars with sirens blaring roared past the building we were in. I'm pretty they weren't there for us, but you never know...

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