Sean McBride on ICS Security Education and Degree Programs

Oct 17, 2019

In this episode Dale interviews Sean McBride. Sean was on some of the earliest Unsolicited Response episodes when he was a Founder and Analyst with Critical Intelligence, the first ICS Threat Intel company. The first 10 minutes of the interview discuss the state of ICS threat intel today.

Then the discussion shifts to Sean's current job and passion, creating and running an ICS Cybersecurity Associates Degree program at Idaho State University. We go into what students learn, what jobs they are likely to get, how to scale up the number of students and more.

Links

• ISU Industrial Cybersecurity Program
• OnRamp Online 101-Level ICS Security Training
• S4x20, Jan 21 – 23 in Miami South Beach

Sponsors

This episode was sponsored by aeSolutions. aeSolutions is an engineering and consulting company specializing in process safety and industrial cybersecurity. aeSolutions has pioneered the CyberPHA methodology which is a proven method to assess industrial control system (ICS) cybersecurity risk leveraging well established process safety techniques.

This episode was sponsored by CyberX. Founded by military cyber experts with nation-state expertise defending critical infrastructure, CyberX has developed an end-to-end platform for continuous ICS threat monitoring and risk mitigation. Check out the 2019 CyberX Global ICS and IIoT Risk Report, the CyberX report on the NIS Directive, and my podcast from last year on the report with Phil Neray.