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Verdict – Cesar Cerrudo is the CTO of IOActive, a security research company that approaches security from the attacker’s mindset. The US firm’s team of security consultants work with some of the world’s largest organisations to find flaws in their cyber defences. As CTO, Cerrudo leads a team of ethical hackers that have hijacked technology throughout the stack, including jeeps and robots, and often presents his research at leading cybersecurity conferences such as Black Hat and RSA.

SecurityWeek – Are cyber criminals likely to attack the food industry? The answer is clearly ‘yes’; and there are at least three obvious channels: hacktivists, cyber-criminal gangs, and nation states. “Moving to more significant automation is going to change the risk profile in a way that a lot of organizations haven’t formerly had to manage – operational technology has not been considered a high-risk priority,” commented John Sheehy, Sr. Vice President at IOActive.

Interesting Engineering – Hackers have been shown to be able to hack into the grid — with worrying ease — and use data in order to affect traffic in various ways. Cesar Cerrudo, an Argentinian security researcher with IOActive examined the vehicle traffic control system installed at major U.S. cities and presented his findings at the Infiltrate conference in Florida. It showed that they can be manipulated to bring traffic to a standstill or to force cars to change their routes.

Security Boulevard – A protocol little known by executives outside of the networking world may put the future safety of enterprise IoT at extreme risk if organizations don’t take action to secure their connections. New research out last week found that the way that many large organizations are using the Long Range Wide Area Networking (LoRaWAN) protocol is making them susceptible to hacking that could cause civic disruption and even put people at risk.

Infosecurity Magazine – The North Carolina city of Durham has become the latest US municipality struck by ransomware after reports suggested the Ryuk variant forced key services offline. “Cities need to start investing more on cybersecurity in general, including education, threat assessment, monitoring, prevention, etc. in order to have well established plans for quick reaction and recovery from cyber-attacks,” commented Cesar Cerrudo, CTO of IOActive.