Protecting Smart Factories from Smart Attackers
- S1E19
- 29:54
- August 21st 2025
How do you protect the beating heart of modern manufacturing—smart factories—from equally smart attackers?
In this episode of Exploited: The Cyber Truth, host Paul Ducklin speaks with Joe Saunders, CEO and Founder of RunSafe Security, about the complex risks inside today’s highly connected industrial environments.
Joe shares insights into:
- Why the Purdue security model falls short in the cloud and IoT era
- How attackers gain value from even “read-only” factory access
- The role of standards like IEC 62443 in raising security posture
- Why software quality and Secure by Design practices matter as much as compliance
- Extending the life of legacy systems with memory safety protections
From factory floor sensors to enterprise IT systems, this conversation unpacks what manufacturers, suppliers, and operators can do to stay one step ahead of motivated adversaries.
Exploited: The Cyber Truth
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.