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Enabling the Smart Cities of the Future with CIS's Kathleen Moriarty and Ben Carter

Episode Summary

When it comes to protecting organizations and consumers from new and emerging threats, sharing information is vital. The Center for Internet Security, or CIS, is a nonprofit organization that provides expert-level guidance and knowledge to help the public and private sector reduce their risk and secure their infrastructure and data from cybersecurity threats.

Episode Notes

Kathleen Moriarty & Ben Carter of CIS join Smarter Everything to discuss the importance of preventative security measures within the IoT market and best practices for vendors when trying to build security into their products.

Key Takeaways

• The CIS gathers, normalizes, and shares information on threats and vulnerabilities in a structured manner, which empowers organizations to proactively protect themselves against attacks.
• When it comes to building security models, the prescriptive guidance that the CIS provides helps organizations save time and valuable resources.
• Rather than being product-specific, the CIS aims to develop practices that can be scaled and applied over a multitude of markets.

Time Stamps

• 02:33 Defining CIS and what brought Kathleen there
• 07:55 What is an ISAC?
• 11:56 Ben’s job at CIS 
• 13:29 CIS’s motivation for publishing security reports
• 15:58 How Ben got his start in IoT
• 17:40 Biggest challenges in the IoT space
• 24:50 Management scale and sustainability concerns in cybersecurity
• 27:56 Where Kathleen sees the IoT market going in 12 to 24 months
• 29:33 Current influential standards in the industry
• 33:15 Kathleen’s book and what IoT professionals need to pay attention to