Securing What Feeds Us
“There is so much tech in our food and agriculture industry now that is touching our food on some level… we are creating the potential for a...
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Hack the Plant
Electricity. Finance. Transportation. Our water supply. In Hack the Plant, podcast host Bryson Bort looks for answers to the question: Does connecting these systems, and others, to the inter...
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From DC to Sacramento: Building Resilient Critical Infrastructure and OT Workforces
“Securing critical infrastructure is not one person’s job. You bring multiple people, multiple teams with different expertise to come togeth...
Kindness and Critical Infrastructure: Rethinking OT Security
“Security is not convenient. Nobody likes change. But at the same time, we have to be secure. Finding that middle ground is the challenge in...
Cyber-Informed Engineering: Moving Beyond the Firewall
“The fundamentals of cybersecurity are the fundamentals of good engineering and operations.” - Andrew Ohrt
Systems Engineering for Survival: A Physician's Guide to Emergency Management
Our host Bryson Bort welcomes Dr. Natalie Sullivan, Medical Director of the Emergency Response Medical Group and an emergency medicine physi...
Bridging the IT/OT Divide in Oil & Gas
Bryson Bort is joined by Dd Budiharto, Microsoft’s Customer Security Officer for the Oil, Gas, and Energy sectors, to share her experience b...
AI and the Future of Maritime Cybersecurity
In this episode, host Bryson Bort sits down with Gary Kessler, retired cybersecurity professor and co-founder and director of the Maritime H...
Creating a Cyber Aware Culture for Local Water Utilities
Deputy Managing Director at the Cyber Readiness Institute Lessie Skiba joins host Bryson Bort to discuss the CRI’s new program connecting sm...
Local Infrastructure is Critical Infrastructure
Our host Bryson sits down with Colin Ahern and Kirk Herath, two of the only cybersecurity experts working in Governors’ offices in the Unite...
Old Systems, New Threats
Bryson Bort is joined by Jim Montgomery, Director, Industrial Cybersecurity Solutions at TXOne Networks. TXOne provides network-based and en...
The Truth About OT Vulnerabilities
Bryson Bort sits down with Adam Robbie, Head of OT Threat Research at Palo Alto Networks, to pull back the curtain on OT threat research. Wi...
Bridging the Cybersecurity Resource Gap
Bryson Bort welcomes Sarah Powazek, Program Director of Public Interest Cybersecurity at the UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity,...
Preparing for Unnatural Disasters
Welcome to season 5! Our host Bryson Bort sits down with Institute for Security and Technology (IST) Executive in Residence for Public Safet...
From the Archives
For the final episode of the season, our host Bryson Bort reflects on four years and forty episodes of Hack the Plan[e]t, and picks a few fa...
Protecting Critical Infrastructure for Rural Electric Cooperatives
Bryson is joined by Carter Manucy, Director of Cybersecurity at the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association to discuss rural electri...
Reliability and Risks of the North American Power Grid
Bryson is joined by Sara Patrick, President and CEO at the Midwest Reliability Organization (MRO) to discuss cyber threats, mitigation strat...
Securing Embedded Systems
In this episode, Bryson sits down with MITRE EMB3D co-founder Niyo Little Thunder Pearson. For nearly 20 years, Niyo has been at the forefro...
The Case For A Cyber Force
In this episode, Bryson sits down with Mark Montgomery, Senior Director at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. For three years, Mark...
Supporting Ukrainian Electrical Grid Resilience in Wartime
Joe Marshall is a Senior IoT Security Strategist at Cisco Talos Intelligence Group. When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Joe helped coordina...
Preparing for the potential worst day
In this episode, Bryson Bort is joined by Paul Shaver, Global OT Security Practice Lead at Mandiant / Google Cloud to discuss the cyber thre...