Kristin Demoranville
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Bites and Bytes Podcast · Agroterrorism & Cyber Threats: How Farms Are Under Attack · 4 Mar 2025
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Because, I mean, I'm ready to like suit up and get into a security operations center now and start, you know, kicking some ass because that's how I feel about this situation. But this is also me. But what can we do to help you help fight the bad guys and diminish this? Can we help bring awareness? Can we help educate? What can we do?
A low hanging fruit. It's easy.
I always tell people to make it hard. Make it hard for these people to get into your building. Make it hard for them to get into your systems. Don't make it easy. Because if it's easy, then in some ways you probably felt like you deserved it at that point, right? Make it hard. I know it's not going to be easy necessarily to make it hard.
But once you've made it hard, you just have to do slight tweaks here and there to change it out or adjust and make it difficult for people to get in. It's always like the people who put alarm systems on their house but leave their front door unlocked. Why? Why do you do that? I never understood that. So you don't have to have all the latest and greatest tech.
You just have to use it efficiently, right? And effectively. That's what's important. Anyways, I'm sorry. I interrupted somebody probably.
Yep. And thank them. We've talked about this before, Andrew, you have to thank a farmer because they do so much and we don't even know because we're so far removed from it. You know, we just go to the grocery store and oh, there we are. Magic. I can just go and get a chicken. Great.
But I don't have to think about it, how it happened, how it was raised, where it came from and all the love that went into that and the hard work that went into it through multiple families and generations. Besides the fact that You know, I do cybersecurity within the food industry and agriculture.
I also want to support and be there for the people who are doing this work because I think that's super important. Part of the reason why I have the platform that I have is because we don't talk about this enough. And I bring this to the cybersecurity conferences and they look at me like I'm crazy. Because why are we talking about this?
But then when they start to hear it, they go, we're part of this. We need to do something. And then it's those conversations start up and then the hallway conversations start up and then people start looking around and trying to understand and incorporating this into their risk assessments.
A lot of people will get into the weeds of should they be doing a physical security assessment on a risk assessment? Yes, you should. Like, I think it's part of risk, right? Like, that makes sense to me. But having a different mindset when you're walking around an agricultural facility, whether it's a greenhouse or a chicken farm, is kind of different.
You need to look at things a little bit differently and have that mindset of almost being a bad actor. You know, we kind of look at things in a skewed way. Well, now we look at it in a different way. I mean, Hannah, you've made me realize that I need to start thinking more nefariously horrible because people are awful. Like, yikes. And in so many ways. And it's resonated heavily with me.
So thank you. everyone for being here. Any final thoughts as we're about to close out? I know there's a lot more I could say, and I really want to keep everybody on for their hour, but I think we need to keep going.
Good. Thank you for the positivity. I really appreciate it. Mike, any closing thoughts?
And this is why it's always people in process before the technology every damn time. Andrew.
That's amazing. And I'll make sure everything's in the show notes. So we have all the links, but thank you very much for being here. I really appreciate it. This was so enlightening for me as a host. Like this is fantastic. Like this is the kind of conversations that I live for. So thank you very much for your time for all three of you. to wrap on today's episode of Bites of Bites.
A huge thank you to Hannah, Mike, and Andrew for sharing their expertise and discussing agroterrorism with us today. This is a conversation we all need to be having. We've covered a lot today, real world attacks, risks farms face, and how cybersecurity plays a critical role in protecting our food supply. If you found this episode valuable, please be sure to like, comment and please do share.
Raising awareness about these threats is critical. You can find links to everything we discussed today in the show notes. And remember, the conversation doesn't have to stop here. The more we know, the better we can protect what matters. Stay safe, stay curious, and we'll see you on the next one. Bye for now.
Welcome to the award-winning Bites and Bytes podcast. I'm your host, Kristen DeMoranville, and I'm thrilled to welcome you to the first episode of 2025 and of the second season. Today's guest is someone I've wanted to bring onto the show for a while, my good friend, Mike Holcomb. Mike is one of the most recognizable names in the OTICS cybersecurity world.
And if you've been in the community for more than five minutes, you've probably heard of him. He's not just an OT-ICS cybersecurity expert. He's also a fantastic trainer and coach, including sharing his knowledge with free educational content on YouTube. Mike has a way of making complex topics approachable and fun, and I'm thrilled that he's here.
We're going to talk about the evolving ICS-OT cybersecurity landscape and how it connects to some of the industries that don't always get attention that they deserve, like food and agriculture. So grab a snack, get comfy, and let's jump right into it. Well, I'm absolutely delighted and excited that I finally have Mike Holcomb on the podcast.
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