We had an excellent time exhibiting at Secure360 in the Twin Cities a couple of weeks ago. I hope you saw the booth. It was large and colorful, and I ensured we were right next to the food. Tag line: You can’t attack what you can’t see.
I’ve been in technology marketing for more years than I’d like to admit. The pace and path that AI has us on is a bit dizzying. It was interesting to talk to attendees about securing AI agents and PLCs at the same time, almost like a time warp in technology coming full circle. In fact, one of our top use cases is a Tier 1 automotive manufacturer isolating and securing PLCs and agentic agents together to perform predictive maintenance. The estimated savings is $7M per factory.
Another thing I learned at the event is that cyber folks are more serious than I realized about Star Wars. This came up in casual conversation with a bank’s CISO. We were talking about tech marketing, and I said that before we commercialize an offering, our team usually gives it a Star Wars code name. They are always a little wistful when I say that’s not going to be the actual product name, going so far as to talk to the lawyer to see if we can trademark it. When I told this story, the CISO looked at me and said, “Well, they have a point.” He then showed me his security chat group on his phone. It was called the Jedi Council. I relayed this story after the event on a video call, and the engineering team went berserk. I knew it was prevalent, but not that prevalent. My next marketing campaign will absolutely have a Star Wars theme!
The last tale from the tradeshow was from a heroic Cook County cyber analyst. He visited the booth and we talked about how we can secure data creators and data collectors and have public PKI revocation down to seconds and rotation down to minutes. We also lamented that the government can’t adopt cutting-edge technologies like our Isolated SASE platform as easily as he would like. He then proudly talked about the meticulous process and chain of custody associated with our elections, and how hard he and his team work to ensure the integrity of the process. He was incredibly passionate about it, and I thought Cook County was very lucky to have someone like that working for them.
And speaking of our country, our 250th birthday is right around the corner! We have a lot to be proud of, especially in terms of innovation. While progress (and threats) in cybersecurity continue to grow, let’s make sure our big celebration is a safe and happy time for us all.
If you want to learn more about Isolated Networks and how we can deploy a secure, invisible network in under a week, just email me at cynthia.lawton@isolatednetworks.com.
