{"id":15008,"date":"2014-09-24T13:36:25","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T13:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kasperskydaily.com\/b2b\/?p=2626"},"modified":"2025-07-21T09:25:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T13:25:13","slug":"podcast-adam-firestone-on-critical-infrastructure-government-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/podcast-adam-firestone-on-critical-infrastructure-government-security\/15008\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast: Adam Firestone on Critical Infrastructure, Government Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2017\/05\/06020136\/Adam-Fireston1-231x300.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2017\/05\/06020136\/Adam-Fireston1-231x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15938\"><\/a>Brian Donohue interviews Adam Firestone, President and General Manager of Kaspersky Lab\u2019s newest subsidiary, Kaspersky Government Security Solutions, at the Billington Cybersecurity Summit in Washington D.C. Firestone explains why critical infrastructure systems are insecure, that added on security does not work, and how we are currently presented with a unique opportunity to build new industrial control systems \u2014 security first \u2014 as older ones reach the end of their lifespan.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><blockquote class=\"twitter-pullquote\"><p>There is an unique opportunity to improve #security of critical infrastructure now<\/p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fkas.pr%2FgRk2&amp;text=There+is+an+unique+opportunity+to+improve+%23security+of+critical+infrastructure+now\" class=\"btn btn-twhite\" data-lang=\"en\" data-count=\"0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tweet<\/a><\/blockquote><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Listen to the podcast:<\/p>\n<p><strong>(No longer available as of Feb 2019)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Donohue interviews Adam Firestone, President and General Manager of Kaspersky Government Security Solutions, about why critical infrastructure systems are insecure, and why added on security does not work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":15938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1999,3052],"tags":[756,2193,485],"class_list":{"0":"post-15008","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"category-smb","9":"tag-critical-infrastructure","10":"tag-government-security","11":"tag-podcast"},"hreflang":[{"hreflang":"x-default","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/podcast-adam-firestone-on-critical-infrastructure-government-security\/15008\/"},{"hreflang":"en-au","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com.au\/blog\/podcast-adam-firestone-on-critical-infrastructure-government-security\/15008\/"},{"hreflang":"en-za","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.za\/blog\/podcast-adam-firestone-on-critical-infrastructure-government-security\/15008\/"}],"acf":[],"banners":"","maintag":{"url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/tag\/critical-infrastructure\/","name":"critical infrastructure"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15008"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25805,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15008\/revisions\/25805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}