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Kristin Demoranville

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Bites & Bytes Podcast
Safeguarding the Grid and the Plate: OT Insights with Aaron Crow, Host of PrOTect IT All Podcast

And if I think about the fact that we have all these issues globally, some of this food that we love and we talk about may not be available to the next generation or the generation after that, because we made bad choices. Yeah. you know? And also the idea that a cyber attack threatened people's lives through food. I can't really think of anything even worse than that. Right.

Bites & Bytes Podcast
Safeguarding the Grid and the Plate: OT Insights with Aaron Crow, Host of PrOTect IT All Podcast

And if I think about the fact that we have all these issues globally, some of this food that we love and we talk about may not be available to the next generation or the generation after that, because we made bad choices. Yeah. you know? And also the idea that a cyber attack threatened people's lives through food. I can't really think of anything even worse than that. Right.

Bites & Bytes Podcast
Safeguarding the Grid and the Plate: OT Insights with Aaron Crow, Host of PrOTect IT All Podcast

Honestly, it's an intimate attack. It's not just like, Oh, we're going after finances and dah, dah, dah, dah. No, no, no. That's to destroy people. Like that is, that keeps me up at night. Not every night, but there's some nights where like, Oh my God, like we're just like a hairpin from it sometimes. And it's,

Bites & Bytes Podcast
Safeguarding the Grid and the Plate: OT Insights with Aaron Crow, Host of PrOTect IT All Podcast

Honestly, it's an intimate attack. It's not just like, Oh, we're going after finances and dah, dah, dah, dah. No, no, no. That's to destroy people. Like that is, that keeps me up at night. Not every night, but there's some nights where like, Oh my God, like we're just like a hairpin from it sometimes. And it's,

Bites & Bytes Podcast
Safeguarding the Grid and the Plate: OT Insights with Aaron Crow, Host of PrOTect IT All Podcast

I don't want people to know that because I do have professional and friends that have lost children to E. coli poisoning and other different poisonings. And to tell a parent that their child is passing because of a burger that was contaminated, I mean, that makes me want to burn a house down. Like, that's not the answer. Not that I'm an arsonist because I'm a firefighter family.

Bites & Bytes Podcast
Safeguarding the Grid and the Plate: OT Insights with Aaron Crow, Host of PrOTect IT All Podcast

I don't want people to know that because I do have professional and friends that have lost children to E. coli poisoning and other different poisonings. And to tell a parent that their child is passing because of a burger that was contaminated, I mean, that makes me want to burn a house down. Like, that's not the answer. Not that I'm an arsonist because I'm a firefighter family.

Bites & Bytes Podcast
Safeguarding the Grid and the Plate: OT Insights with Aaron Crow, Host of PrOTect IT All Podcast

However, I will say it does make me very angry. And my anger doesn't matter, right? Because at the end of the day, I can only do what I can do. I want more people to understand that, especially in the OT space, we are doing things that safeguard lives on a whole other level than we expected to in our career. I certainly didn't think this was going to happen in my career. No. No.

Bites & Bytes Podcast
Safeguarding the Grid and the Plate: OT Insights with Aaron Crow, Host of PrOTect IT All Podcast

However, I will say it does make me very angry. And my anger doesn't matter, right? Because at the end of the day, I can only do what I can do. I want more people to understand that, especially in the OT space, we are doing things that safeguard lives on a whole other level than we expected to in our career. I certainly didn't think this was going to happen in my career. No. No.

Bites & Bytes Podcast
Safeguarding the Grid and the Plate: OT Insights with Aaron Crow, Host of PrOTect IT All Podcast

be like putting someone was like oh you're putting a cape on every day and like a superhero and i was like i don't know if i want to go that far but um if it helps you with the visualization of what i do that's fine but i don't want to put myself on that level this isn't a pedestal moment because we are a team like ot works as a team we really believe that we are in supporting each other

Bites & Bytes Podcast
Safeguarding the Grid and the Plate: OT Insights with Aaron Crow, Host of PrOTect IT All Podcast

be like putting someone was like oh you're putting a cape on every day and like a superhero and i was like i don't know if i want to go that far but um if it helps you with the visualization of what i do that's fine but i don't want to put myself on that level this isn't a pedestal moment because we are a team like ot works as a team we really believe that we are in supporting each other

Bites & Bytes Podcast
Safeguarding the Grid and the Plate: OT Insights with Aaron Crow, Host of PrOTect IT All Podcast

and be curious start asking questions like oh really is that ot like i wasn't going to actually ask me that like oh do you think that's ot i'm like yeah it's connected to the internet and whatever it's you know and i want that question be curious to the point of annoyance we don't mind we really don't and we want you to ask questions and we also want to ask questions that's what we do because we are constantly evaluating everything it was funny um when crowd strike hit as an example first of all my heart went out to anybody with it obviously but

Bites & Bytes Podcast
Safeguarding the Grid and the Plate: OT Insights with Aaron Crow, Host of PrOTect IT All Podcast

and be curious start asking questions like oh really is that ot like i wasn't going to actually ask me that like oh do you think that's ot i'm like yeah it's connected to the internet and whatever it's you know and i want that question be curious to the point of annoyance we don't mind we really don't and we want you to ask questions and we also want to ask questions that's what we do because we are constantly evaluating everything it was funny um when crowd strike hit as an example first of all my heart went out to anybody with it obviously but

Bites & Bytes Podcast
Safeguarding the Grid and the Plate: OT Insights with Aaron Crow, Host of PrOTect IT All Podcast

but it didn't surprise neither myself or my fiance because both of us are in security. So in OT specifically, and it was just one of those like, you know, like this is not good. However, hopefully it's a lesson learned moment where you can't just have one thing holding the pillar up out of all of it. You need to actually have a better look at it.

Bites & Bytes Podcast
Safeguarding the Grid and the Plate: OT Insights with Aaron Crow, Host of PrOTect IT All Podcast

but it didn't surprise neither myself or my fiance because both of us are in security. So in OT specifically, and it was just one of those like, you know, like this is not good. However, hopefully it's a lesson learned moment where you can't just have one thing holding the pillar up out of all of it. You need to actually have a better look at it.

Bites & Bytes Podcast
Safeguarding the Grid and the Plate: OT Insights with Aaron Crow, Host of PrOTect IT All Podcast

And I hope that the people that were affected are taking a long hungered look of what they have in their environment. Now, what else could be critical and concerning?

Bites & Bytes Podcast
Safeguarding the Grid and the Plate: OT Insights with Aaron Crow, Host of PrOTect IT All Podcast

And I hope that the people that were affected are taking a long hungered look of what they have in their environment. Now, what else could be critical and concerning?

Bites & Bytes Podcast
Safeguarding the Grid and the Plate: OT Insights with Aaron Crow, Host of PrOTect IT All Podcast

It's crazy.

Bites & Bytes Podcast
Safeguarding the Grid and the Plate: OT Insights with Aaron Crow, Host of PrOTect IT All Podcast

It's crazy.

Bites & Bytes Podcast
Safeguarding the Grid and the Plate: OT Insights with Aaron Crow, Host of PrOTect IT All Podcast

It's people and process. Exactly. It really is. And actually, when the event happened, I messaged a good friend of mine, my best friend, actually, who works in a cheese company in Wisconsin. Insert laughter. But I asked, I said, I know you guys have CrowdStrike. Like, are you guys all right? He goes, well, actually, we happened overnight. We were able to pull some backup systems.

Bites & Bytes Podcast
Safeguarding the Grid and the Plate: OT Insights with Aaron Crow, Host of PrOTect IT All Podcast

It's people and process. Exactly. It really is. And actually, when the event happened, I messaged a good friend of mine, my best friend, actually, who works in a cheese company in Wisconsin. Insert laughter. But I asked, I said, I know you guys have CrowdStrike. Like, are you guys all right? He goes, well, actually, we happened overnight. We were able to pull some backup systems.