Puesh Kumar - Director of Dept of Energy's CESER

Mar 22, 2023

Dale Peterson interviewed Puesh Kumar on the S4x23 Main Stage. Puesh is the Director of the US Dept of Energy's Cybersecurity, Energy Security, & Emergency Response (CESER). The lead US Government OT cybersecurity agency in the energy sector.

After Puesh gives a 3 minute overview on CESER, they dig into it.

• How are they measuring CRISP's detection and analysis progress? Has it stopped or limited the impact of any attacks?
• What is one of the CESER programs that didn't work and what did they learn from it?
• Why is the US Government testing products for GE, Hitachi and other large companies and questioning the results.
• The push for Cyber Informed Engineering and what success looks like
• Competing with industy
• and more ... CESER is tackling a lot so there was much to squeeze into 30 minutes