Andrew Rose (US)
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first heard Jun 2024
last heard Jun 2024
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I don't, I'm going to push back. You're a problem solver. I bet if you put your mind to it, you'd be the best scone baker we've seen.
All right. Well, thank you. Appreciate that. I am the other Andrew Rose, the US version of Andrew Rose. And fun fact, there is another Andrew Rose who does cyber, but we'll eventually get him into one of these podcasts. Yeah. So, I am an accidental cybersecurity advisor, expert, what have you.
I was working for a large bank that does agricultural financing and had just come off of helping stand up the Cybersecurity Association of Maryland as a favor to a friend of mine. It's not that I have any coding or cyber background, it's I know how to start nonprofits and write bylaws and put fiduciary responsibilities and governance in there and bringing sponsors.
And we hired an executive director, got an office location, got programming up and running. At about that time, I went over to the bank and I inherited a large team that was geographically dispersed. And I figured a great way to do a team building exercise was do a tabletop exercise.
And since I'd just come off cybersecurity, I figured, well, let's just do a nuclear internal disgruntled tech employee that bricks our machines, exfiltrates data, you know, the whole nine yards. And we ran through that exercise. And I won't really go into what our findings were, but it gave us 18 months of work to patch. over a few holes that were uncovered.
One of the issues going into this, and for anyone out there listening, is we had assumed we had a playbook. We had assumed that whatever the crisis was, there was protocols and procedures in place to follow through that. And that was the pushback I got when I was pulling everyone together. And I said, well, we'll do this from muscle memory then.
We'll run through it just to understand what this looks like. And then we obviously identified some gaps and blind spots. What that that gave me a lot of pause. And I reached out to a friend of mine who was very high up in the U.S. Cybersecurity Command and said, hey, I'm in agriculture now and I just found something I'm a little little concerned.
Would you would you look around and just let me know what you see? And he got back to me about a month later with an OSSHIT type of email saying, hey, this is not good. And, you know, I'm just doing this as a volunteer. I'm a regular guys, but I know a lot of people. And at the same time, and I can share this publicly because there is a YouTube video.
One of our clients is a very large poultry integrator on the Eastern Shore, and their contract growers were getting hit by a variety of business email compromises and rerouting transaction numbers. And it was in the tens of millions of dollars were the hits. And no one knew what was going on. No one knew what to do. And I thought I'd be a superhero and I called the FBI.
and that they would do a YouTube video, a case counterpoint, here's what you do if this happens. And that was my first experience with dealing with the public facing information from the FBI. There is a process and procedure, it's very difficult, it's like threading a needle to get them to say anything in public, but there is a way to do that.
I put on a series of national seminars to bring awareness to the ag community that, hey, you are a target. This is a threat. We need to be aware. And I did those starting in 2016, 2017. And then probably by 2019, we'd done several very large conferences. And the time demands for me as a volunteer were so great that I needed to focus on what I was best at.
So I migrated from being everything to everybody to focusing on the emerging threats. And now and I do want to give a shout out to the FBI. They've been they've been supporting me the entire time. Whenever I need something, it's there. Whatever information needs to be shared with an audience, a speaker, what have you.
They've stood up and to their credit, they always apologize afterwards saying we could have done more, you know, and I'm always like, well, at least you're there for me. I do appreciate that. But one of their concerns is when they're called is after the incidents occurred. So the right of boom and the lack of preparation by many companies to what that looks like.
Not only are you dealing with the emotion of it, why was I attacked? Why was it me? You know, why was I singled out? Now you're going to make payroll with no records. Now you've got to send invoices out with no records. Now you've got to receive invoices with no access to your financial systems.
So I've been working on small, private-focused meetings with groups in the agricultural industry about, okay, it's not if and when, it's when and again. So let's just start planning for these things and getting ahead of these attacks. And that's my cybersecurity contribution.
What I also do, though, to keep my lights on, I work on projects that benefit our species three generations from now, primarily in agricultural production. And a lot of that's technology transfer from other countries that will then benefit soft landing. It'll benefit the U.S., but it'll also benefit them.
And then I also work as a fractional chief of staff for a variety of different companies across different categories, mostly in the agriculture sector, some in the IT sector. So that's a long-winded way of saying me. I'm in Baltimore, Maryland. So if anyone's out here in the area, I'd love to treat you to a crab cake and a cup of coffee.
Yeah. Well, to get really hyper-focused in the agriculture production side, I specialize in novel plants and proteins. And that's going to be a micro or macroalgae, seaweed or a microalgae. It's going to be duckweed. It's going to be insects, space agriculture, recirculating aquaculture systems. And I do have an affinity for insects in particular. And of those, I have an
Real affinity for mealworms. I love the protein emulsification. They're cold blooded, like the five to nine harvest a year. And they're fine. They're two dimensional. They don't hop. They don't fly. They don't complain. They don't make noises. They just eat their carrots and apples and whole wheat and just do their mealworm thing.
Indeed. Two years ago in Fargo, we ran a tabletop around resiliency in a big part of the agri-supply chain. And to Andrew's point, resiliency, not only in an organization, but in an entire supply chain is the critical piece because you've got competitors that if one goes down, it's either wolves on the carcass or everyone bands together and makes sure that our citizens get fed livestock gets fed.
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