How Joe Marshall helps defend everything from electrical grids to grain co-ops across multiple continents
Summary: Joe Marshall, a senior security strategist on Cisco Talos' Strategic Communications team, focuses on industrial control systems after roughly 10 years in IT systems administration and a stint as a cybersecurity architect for Exelon, one of the largest U.S. public utility companies. He has worked on the ground in Ukraine with defenders and infrastructure managers on power grid and agricultural supply chain security during Russia's invasion, and previously led a Talos team tasked with finding vulnerabilities in ICS, IoT and other critical infrastructure products.
What's compelling: Marshall's point that snakes and squirrels have caused more power outages in modern history than cyber attacks is a direct challenge to the worst-case framing security leaders often carry into board conversations about critical infrastructure.
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