Synopsis

Today's podcast discussion is with someone who has one of the toughest jobs in the security world... Patrick helps organizations that generate and deliver the power that runs our gadgets and critical systems that maintain life as we know it.  The power grid is not only surprisingly vulnerable due to it's age-old infrastructure, but also surprisingly resilient due to the complex nature of power distribution and generation... there's just a lot more to it than most people realize.

Patrick separates fact from fiction and goes into the pragmatic approach on national electric grid security - where we realize that it's really worse than we believed from a cyber security perspective, but better than we know because as you read this the electric grid is under constant attack, but it's still transmitting clean power.

I urge you to listen to this podcast, and then engage Patrick (@PatrickCMiller) or I in discussion... 

Guest

• Patrick C. Miller - 

President & CEO of EnergySec

Principal Investigator of National Electric Sector CyberSecurity Organization (NESCO)

Links:

• NESCO - US Dept. of Energy (DoE) Office of Electricy Delivery & Energy Reiliability - http://energy.gov/oe/services/cybersecurity/nesco
• EnergySec - A 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization formed to support organizations within the energy sector in securing their critical technology infrastructures -  http://www.energysec.org/

Synopsis

This episode is a mini-episode recorded live from the social media lounge at HP Discover Las Vegas 2012.  It was an incredible show, where I caught up with Marc and Matt - two guys who are really from opposite side of today's deploy vs. secure coin.  Somehow we quickly dove into DevOps and picked up right where my conversation with the incomprable Gene Kim left off in episode 20.  Ironically, we discussed how to deploy faster (sound familiar?) and still get security and quality into the scope of delivery... this isn't a product pitch but it's two HP guys talking about how products impact software quality, security and overall delivery speed.

Guests

• Marc Blackmer  - Senior Solutions Marketing Manager (HP Enterprise Security Products) - Marc is a seasoned veteran of the Information Security industry with experience going back to high technician days in 1998.  Since 2006 Marc has held various technical and engineering roles at ArcSight and has come to learn the SEIM industry better than anyone I know.  Marc is one of the rare people who 'gets' how products solve actual problems.
• Matt Morgan Vice President and General Manager, HP Software Cloud and Hybrid IT - Matthew Morgan is the vice president and general manager of product marketing for the HP Software Cloud and Hybrid IT software organization, a $2.5B software business delivering solutions used by 100,000s of users to successfully define, deliver, and manage business software in a cloud and mobile world.  Matt has 20 years of experience in the Internet and IT business application industry. In his time at HP Software, he had held multiple executive roles including leading the commercialization of HP Application Lifecycle Management, launching HP's first mobile testing and monitoring solutions, and leading a shift to digital marketing operations.