Exploited: The Cyber Truth
Exploited: The Cyber Truth
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Exploited: The Cyber Truth is a hard-hitting, no-fluff podcast exposing the realities of today’s cyber threat landscape and risks to critical infrastructure. Through candid conversations with top cybersecurity experts, industry leaders, and frontline defenders, the show breaks down recent high-profile vulnerabilities and exploits and covers innovative strategies used to stop them. To keep critical infrastructure safe, defenders need the upper hand. Tune in and get the cyber truth.
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The podcast explores topics such as healthcare cybersecurity, automotive security, zero-day vulnerabilities, operational technology risks, and regulatory compliance, with episodes like 'Security Without Code Changes' addressing legislative impacts on medical device security and 'Shifting Cybersecurity Left in Automotive' discussing the Secure by Design approach for vehicle safety.
Exploited: The Cyber Truth is a hard-hitting, no-fluff podcast exposing the realities of today’s cyber threat landscape and risks to critical infrastructure. Through candid conversations with top cybersecurity experts, industry leaders, and frontline defenders, the show breaks down recent high-profile vulnerabilities and exploits and covers innovative strategies used to stop them. To keep critical infrastructure safe, defenders need the upper hand. Tune in and get the cyber truth.
Embedded systems power everything from critical infrastructure to defense systems, yet vulnerabilities in those systems often go unseen and unaddressed. In this episode of Exploited: The Cyber Truth, host Paul Ducklin is joined by RunSafe Security CEO Joe Saunders and special guests Mario Zuniga and Matt Janson of MITRE to discuss the “invisible attack surface” lurking within embedded and cyber-physical systems.
Drawing on their frontline experience in cyber operations and resiliency engineering, Mario and Matt explain why embedded systems demand a fundamentally different approach to cybersecurity. From limited patching capabilities and long system lifecycles to unique hardware and firmware attack vectors, traditional IT security models fall short in these environments.
Together, they discuss:
- Why embedded systems are often overlooked in cybersecurity strategies
- How attackers exploit firmware, hardware interfaces, and air-gapped environments
- The challenges of securing systems that must remain operational for decades
- The role of MITRE’s embedded threat matrix (ESTEEM) in mapping adversary behavior
- Why resilience—not just prevention—is key to defending critical infrastructure
From industrial control systems to national defense, this episode reveals what it takes to secure the technologies that quietly underpin modern society and why the time to act is now.
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