Kristin Demoranville
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976 appearances
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first heard Jun 2024
last heard Mar 2025
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It's nice to finally get you here and we can have a conversation around all the work that you do and then how I constantly bug you to add food and egg into every conversation you have.
And it pisses me off because it's so important because we eat and it's part of our lives. And for sure. And, you know, we just discussed how much we like popcorn in various forms. And it's one of those things that it's still a struggle, even in OTSCS, because we kind of lump food production into manufacturing, which isn't incorrect at all.
But we should call it out separately because it's a different thing, right? It's a different thing altogether, especially when it comes to food safety and things like that. But yeah, what are you working on right now, Mike? What's what's going on? Because then I'll interject all the food stuff into it. Yeah.
I think the thing that I'm really excited about with B-Sides is especially when you go to all the other cybersecurity conferences and Mike and I have talked about this before, but we always look for the OTC people. It's like we have little radars. We're like, we're the people that totally relate to what we do. And I realize everybody does that in their own different sector.
But there's something about us as a community. We actively want to see each other. We want to be around each other. We want to have that camaraderie, that community. And I feel like sometimes it gets lost in certain types of ICS conferences and OT conferences where you've got so much on and there's so many things to do and you've got to meet the partners and the vendors and everything else.
But it'd be nice to finally have a conference that we can just... How's it going? Do you want to talk? Like, you know, like you want to talk shop, like really get into it. And I love that because that's what we need.
And I appreciate that the larger, bigger conferences like, you know, Black Hat and DEF CON and RSA are including more OTICS in conversation and even in different topics that are being talked about. But it's not the same. We actually have to explain more, I think, when we're in those environments of what we do, because people still get hung up that it's just all about the data.
And that's not it's not our vibe all the way. You know, we're actually about safeguarding lives over the data, not the actual data itself. We do care about data. But it's a different conversation. It's a different mindset. And I also think that generally speaking, OTICS people have more of a systems thinking vibe.
So that can definitely bump heads against others who don't have that kind of viewpoint. We look at things in a holistic space and how one thing over here will affect the other thing over there. I think that that is a different. I think we're weird. We're the weirdos and we like it. We embrace it.
It's sort of like, and that's how I appreciate hacking culture in general, because we get that we're just have our own breed of culture in a way. And you I'm sure you've noticed that with all of the different connections you have now, and through the trainings and people reaching out to you, you've realized that we're probably we're so much different than just average cybersecurity people.
And I love it. I love our community. I think it's great for sure.
I love it how we're almost infectious as well. I love when people come to me and they say, hey, I want to change my career. I want to move towards OTCS. What do I do? And my response always is just stay curious and ask lots of questions. And here's 15 channels you can go look at on YouTube, including yours, Mike, or, you know, here's all the knowledge you're going to start learning.
I don't want people to get tripped up that they need to know every technical detail of everything that's out there. That's not what they need. They need to ask better questions. They need to be more curious about what the world is around them. It's not like they have to march themselves straight into a factory oil rig.
They can ask questions about their HVAC system in their office, or they can ask more questions about their smart home, or they can... you know, be more curious about other things in terms of, you know, stuff that's happening around them. Their car is a giant IOT device for heaven's sakes. Like you could have that kind of conversation.
I think as soon as people start to, to realize how big the OTICS world is, it starts to go, whoa, we don't look at the world the same way anymore. I feel like the blinders came off really quickly when that happened. And all of a sudden you're like, you're playing the game of count how many IOT devices are around you go. Yeah.
No, I definitely put my hand up and say I'm a total nerd. It doesn't faze me at all. I think we can save those feelings for when we were teenagers and everything was difficult because we don't understand that it's power rather than being made fun of. Something I do like about the community is we do embrace that pretty happily in general.
So I'm so excited for B-Sides and I'm so excited to be part of it. What I'm excited for too is the fact that we are really working on diversifying topics and speakers and hoping to draw in a different crowd, you know, celebrate diversity in that regard. And I don't mean just gender. I meant like niches and, you know, anything that's just separate you.
I really want this to be an event that we all look back on and go, wow, that was a great start, you know, and let's, what are we going to do next year? I'm sure. I think we've already started that. Like, what are we doing next year? But anyways, I'm really excited for that. And I'm also excited, too, that, you know, it's right before us for.
So it's going to be like a nice jumping point for people to get into us for if that's what they're going to do after. Yeah, I think it'd be really great in general. And I'm excited to see who we get as speakers and who what topics we're going to talk about, because generally besides tends to be a little different. Not like the standard, you know, this is the banner issue that's happening.
We get a little bit more nitty gritty or practical level even. I'm excited for that because I love those kind of talks. And I also love that people get to speak for the first time because it's a really friendly crowd. If you're going to try to be a speaker for the first time, generally more embraced there than if you jump onto like Black Hat stage for the first time. Right, for sure. Yeah.
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