Nexus: A Claroty Podcast

Feb 23 2025 91 ep. 36 mins 17

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Nexus is a cybersecurity podcast hosted by Claroty Editorial Director Mike Mimoso. Nexus will feature discussions with cybersecurity leaders, researchers, innovators, and influencers, discussing the topics affecting cybersecurity professionals in OT, IoT, and IoMT environments. Nexus is formerly known as Aperture.

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Ron Fabela on Low-Skilled OT and ICS Threat Actors

Feb 23 2025 36 mins

Ron Fabela of ABS Consulting joins the Nexus Podcast to dispel some of the myths surrounding threat actors targeting operational technology and industrial control systems. Groups such as the Russian Cyber Army, UserSec, and the CyberAv3ngers have different ideological motivations, and have decidedly carried out low-impact attacks on OT. Fabela covers some of their tactics, whether

Munish Walther-Puri on Creating a Scale for Cybersecurity Incidents

Feb 16 2025 33 mins

Munish Walther-Puri of the Center for Global Affairs at New York University joins the Claroty Nexus podcast to discuss a homegrown severity scale for critical infrastructure cybersecurity incidents. The Infrastructure Cyber Incident Scale, or INCI Scale, brings a Richter-Scale-like criticality index to incidents based on the intensity, magnitude, and duration of an event. Walther-P

Brian Foster on the Risks of a Hyperconnected Grid

Feb 11 2025 27 mins

Brian Foster, Senior Advisor for Grid Security at Southern California Edison, joins the Nexus Podcast to discuss a presentation he gave at the S4 Conference called . Foster covers the impending risk and host of exposures expected as smart meters and other similar devices are centrally managed online. This scenario gives attackers the ability to attack devices at scale and potential

CISA's Matthew Rogers on Secure by Demand for OT

Jan 18 2025 39 mins

Matthew Rogers, ICS Cybersecurity Strategy & R&D Lead at the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) joins the Nexus Podcast to discuss the agency's latest publication: “Secure by Demand: Priority Considerations for Operational Technology Owners and Operators when Selecting Digital Products.” This guide features 12 cybersecurity recommendations that OT

Noam Moshe on the IOCONTROL Malware

Dec 19 2024 23 mins

Claroty Team82 researcher Noam Moshe joins the Nexus Podcast to discuss the IOCONTROL malware used by an Iranian APT actor known as the CyberAv3ngers to target civilian critical infrastructure in the U.S. and Israel. The malware acts as a Linux-based backdoor and has a modular configuration that can be adapted for IoT, OT, and SCADA devices. Read Team82's research blog: "Inside a N

Team82 on Attacking the Insecure IoT Cloud

Dec 12 2024 31 mins

Claroty Team82's Noam Moshe and Tomer Goldschmidt join the Nexus Podcast to discuss the research team's latest publication on 10 vulnerabilities discovered in Ruijie Networks' Reyee OS cloud platform. A chain of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to remotely execute code on any device connected to the Ruijie cloud. Team82 also developed an attack they call Open Sesame wh

Volexity's Steven Adair on the Nearest Neighbor Attack

Dec 08 2024 37 mins

Volexity founder Steven Adair joins the Claroty Nexus Podcast to discuss the Nearest Neighbor Attack, a unique attack carried out by Russia's APT 28 against a high-value target in an attempt to gain intelligence on Ukraine prior to the start of the war in February 2022. APT 28 was able to compromise the Wi-Fi network of its target without being in physical proximity of it. They did

Joe Saunders on Advanced Cyberattacks Against Critical Infrastructure

Nov 06 2024 34 mins

Runsafe Security CEO and Cofounder Joe Saunders joins the Nexus Podcast to discuss the strategic shift from certain APTs toward destructive cyberattacks targeting U.S. critical infrastructure. Groups such as Volt Typhoon and Sandworm have aggressively focused their efforts on hacking OT, IoT, and healthcare organizations, opening new fronts that asset owners and operators, as well

Grant Geyer on the Business Impact of Disruptions from Cyberattacks

Oct 28 2024 25 mins

Claroty Chief Strategy Officer Grant Geyer joins the Nexus Podcast to discuss the results of a survey of 1,100 cybersecurity leaders and practitioners on the business impact of disruptions from cyberattacks on cyber-physical systems. The financial losses are steep from these attacks impacting connected systems that are so central to our way of life, as are the recovery costs and op

Alethe Denis on Social Engineering, Red-Teaming

Aug 25 2024 43 mins

Bishop Fox senior security consultant Alethe Denis joins the Claroty Nexus podcast to discuss social engineering in cybersecurity and how it has become part of red-team engagements, especially inside critical infrastructure organizations. She explains the value of open source intelligence and data stolen in breaches to scammers and extortionists in creating pretexts for their schem