Show Notes
"Critical infrastructure is just how we get our water and our health care and our education and our transportation and our communication and how we get gas at the pump and money from the ATM. It really is the networks and the systems and the data that we rely upon every hour of every day and that power our lives." - Jen Easterly
Jen Easterly, Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) joins us for this episode of Hack the Plant. We discuss her work on leading CISA’s critical infrastructure mission, implementing efforts to make products Secure by Design, and working with private companies to combat ransomware.
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