Episode 171: Securing CNI in U.S. SLTTs through AI Adoption

In episode 171 of Cybersecurity Where You Are, Sean Atkinson and Tony Sager sit down with Soledad Antelada Toledano, Security Advisor, Office of the CISO, Google Cloud at Google. Together, they discuss securing critical national infrastructure (CNI) in U.S. State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial (SLTT) government organizations through artificial intelligence (AI) adoption.

Here are some highlights from our episode:

• 00:50. Introduction to Soledad
• 02:48. How the convergence of informational technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) has created bigger attack surfaces
• 04:10. The proliferation of threat actors targeting critical infrastructure sectors
• 07:24. The challenge of legacy systems for U.S. SLTT owners of CNI
• 08:13. Alert fatigue, limited visibility, and other challenges facing OT networks
• 13:22. The value of automated cyber threat intelligence (CTI)
• 24:46. Building strategic AI implementation around human in the loop (HITL)
• 33:17. U.S. SLTTs' use of the cloud to test and build trust for securing CNI

Resources

• The Changing Landscape of Security Operations and Its Impact on Critical Infrastructure
• Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure
• Episode 139: Community Building for the Cyber-Underserved
• Episode 119: Multidimensional Threat Defense at Large Events
• Leveraging Generative Artificial Intelligence for Tabletop Exercise Development
• The Evolving Role of Generative Artificial Intelligence in the Cyber Threat Landscape
• Episode 148: How MDR Helps Shine a Light on Zero-Day Attacks
• Vulnerability Management Policy Template for CIS Control 7
• CIS Critical Security Controls v8.1 Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Guide

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