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188: Adopting a Cybersecurity Strategy That Fits Your Manufacturing Business with Mollie Breen, CEO & Founder of Perygee

Manufacturing Happy Hour · 4 Jun 2024 · 49m

What this episode covers

Mollie Breen, CEO and founder of Perygee, discusses cybersecurity strategies for manufacturing businesses, drawing on her background as a mathematician at the NSA and her experience navigating government bureaucracy to launch her company. She emphasizes returning to foundational security practices like asset inventory and network segmentation, especially as AI introduces new offensive and defensive capabilities. Breen outlines tailored approaches for different company sizes, noting that small businesses should leverage default security settings and segmentation, while scaling companies must build maturity to satisfy investor due diligence. She also highlights the unique regulatory challenges in medical devices and the evolving role of security leaders from 'veto votes' to business enablers.

Most relevant to

companies scaling up

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
Perygee, NSA
Tools
E-plan, SAP
Also
NIST framework

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