Lesley Carhart is the Director of Incident Response for North America at the industrial cybersecurity company Dragos, Inc., leading response to and proactively hunting for threats in customers’ ICS environments. Prior to joining Dragos, Lesley was the incident response team lead at Motorola Solutions. Following four years as a Principal Incident Responder for Dragos, Lesley now manages a team of incident response and digital forensics professionals across North America who perform investigations of commodity, targeted, and insider threat cases in industrial networks. Lesley is also a certified instructor and curriculum developer for Dragos’ incident response and threat hunting courses. Lesley […]

Chapters

• (00:00:03 ) - 12 Cyberpaths
• (00:00:52 ) - Leslie Carhart's Cybersecurity Origin Story
• (00:03:35 ) - How to Get Out of Cybersecurity Early
• (00:07:09 ) - The Incident Response Specialist Who Fixed a Mine's Internet
• (00:11:36 ) - How to start hacking in the 90s
• (00:12:48 ) - Understanding legacy systems in cybersecurity
• (00:15:15 ) - The challenges of legacy systems and cybersecurity
• (00:22:14 ) - Has Cloud Increased the Risk of OT Systems?
• (00:24:03 ) - Is Cybersecurity More Important in Industrial Environments?
• (00:25:53 ) - What Do You Do For Your Job in Cybersecurity?
• (00:28:16 ) - What are the most common misconceptions about incident response?
• (00:29:56 ) - Critical Skills for Cybersecurity Incident Response
• (00:36:00 ) - Cybersecurity in the Industrial Space
• (00:41:18 ) - How to Find a Cybersecurity Mentor
• (00:44:17 ) - The Virtual DEFCON During the Pandemic
• (00:48:23 ) - Cybersecurity Junior Roles at Leslie Dragos
• (00:49:54 ) - Fast and Furious: What's Your Favorite Keyboard?
• (00:50:33 ) - Destination Cyber: Where Did You Start?