Michael Mimoso

Massachusetts

Director of Influencer Marketing at Claroty

Editorial Director at Claroty Nexus

Editorial Director at Claroty, Former Threatpost Editor-in-Chief

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Nexus Podcast: Andrew Ohrt on Starting Cyber-Informed Engineering Projects

3 weeks ago | nexusconnect.io | Michael Mimoso

For two decades, cybersecurity experts have struggled to communicate their domain to business leaders and IT generalists. Security experts lean heavily on confusing acronyms and poorly conceived analogies that fail to make business and tech laymen fully understand threats and risk.
Nexus Podcast: Megan Stifel on the Impact of the Ransomware Task Force

4 weeks ago | nexusconnect.io | Michael Mimoso

Days before the disruptive ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline, the cross-sector Ransomware Task Force emerged with a report that laid out 48 recommendations that included a framework for critical infrastructure organizations that could help deter and disrupt the operations of ransomware gangs.
Nexus Podcast: Joe Slowik on Identifying Truly ‘Critical’ Infrastructure

1 month ago | nexusconnect.io | Michael Mimoso

Joe Slowik is posing some difficult—and thoughtful—scenarios about critical infrastructure protection—and the most challenging probably lies in the word “critical.”On this episode of the Nexus Podcast, and in a recent talk at RSA Conference, Slowik, a security researcher, explained the tensions providers in the 16 critical infrastructure sectors are experiencing around adequate security resourcing and defense of their individual organizations.
Nexus Podcast: Danielle Jablanski on Critical Infrastructure Protection

1 month ago | nexusconnect.io | Michael Mimoso

Critical infrastructure protection is at a crossroads with numerous pressures coming at asset owners and operators from multiple directions ranging from threats to regulatory compliance. Over here are state-affiliated attackers actively targeting operational technology (OT), cyber-physical systems, and IT networks not only within the 16 critical infrastructure sectors but also military targets.
Nexus Podcast: Cassie Crossley on Hardware Security, HBOMs

1 month ago | nexusconnect.io | Michael Mimoso

Much has been written and said about software bills of material (SBOM) and their value to cybersecurity teams, in particular those responsible for vulnerability and patch management. Knowing what software components make up a commercial product—including open source libraries—is essential to understanding the potential risks and exposures associated with either an off-the-shelf or homegrown application. There may be another such tool going mainstream soon—the hardware bill of materials (HBOM).
Nexus Podcast: Christiaan Beek on Ransomware’s Continued Profitability

1 month ago | nexusconnect.io | Michael Mimoso

For more than a decade, ransomware has been an online criminal’s most direct path to revenue and profit. Strategies and innovations such as ransomware-as-a-service have fostered an evolution of these attacks. Targeting of victims has shifted as well from individuals in ransomware’s early days to Cryptolocker’s 2013 transformation of these attacks into for-profit campaigns.
Nexus Podcast: Florence Hudson on the IEEE/UL 2933 Clinical IOT Cybersecurity Standard

2 months ago | nexusconnect.io | Michael Mimoso

The prevalence of connected clinical IoT devices such as wearable patient monitoring systems that measure and report on anything from glucose levels to heart rates means there’s a level of maturity to these deployments. While these devices are crucial to optimal patient care, their maturity doesn’t necessarily include cybersecurity. Many of these devices lack, or were not designed with, security features such as authentication and data protection in mind.
Nexus Podcast: Florence Hudson on the IEEE/UL 2933 Clinical IOT Cybersecurity Standard

2 months ago | nexusconnect.io | Michael Mimoso

The prevalence of connected clinical IoT devices such as wearable patient monitoring systems that measure and report on anything from glucose levels to heart rates means there’s a level of maturity to these deployments. While these devices are crucial to optimal patient care, their maturity doesn’t necessarily include cybersecurity. Many of these devices lack, or were not designed with, security features such as authentication and data protection in mind.
Nexus Podcast: Mike Holcomb on Starting and Succeeding in OT Cybersecurity

Mar 24, 2025 | nexusconnect.io | Michael Mimoso

The tide of IT cybersecurity and networking professionals assuming responsibility for the protection of operational technology (OT) and cyber-physical systems is rising unabated. On a daily basis, enterprises are realizing the significance of protecting these systems that impact the physical world, whether it’s a robot on an assembly line or a building management system handling refrigeration inside a hospital.
Nexus Podcast: Ron Fabela on Low-Skilled OT/ICS Threat Actors

Feb 27, 2025 | nexusconnect.io | Michael Mimoso

The hacking talents of script kiddies may not have matured much in the past two decades, but their marketing skills sure have. Most of these groups operate under the label of hacktivism and carry out defacements and other relatively low-skilled attacks increasingly against operational technology and industrial control systems.