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Brad Willet

Brad Willet

OT Security Infrastructure Architect at UPS and ICS/OT cybersecurity speaker on the (CS)²AI Podcast.

Oct 15, 2026

17:05
Mm-hmm
17:06
... um, but yeah, you see everything, uh, when it happens.
17:10
But that, that sense of urgency is, is primary.
17:17
Because no matter what your industry is, no matter what you're doing, whether you're focused on human lives, whether you're focused on, um, keeping the business running, uh, or making sure that everybody can get their bobbleheads from Amazon the next day, um, it's all very important, um, not only for, um, our reputation, but our financial bottom line.
17:42
So, you know, the biggest thing is everything is important.
17:47
Nothing is not important.
17:49
And even if it's something that you could objectively look at as being maybe this isn't so critical, it's critical to somebody.

13 MINS LATER

30:31
Mm-hmm.
Derek OatesMODERATOR
17:05
Mm-hmm
17:06
... um, but yeah, you see everything, uh, when it happens.
17:10
But that, that sense of urgency is, is primary.
17:17
Because no matter what your industry is, no matter what you're doing, whether you're focused on human lives, whether you're focused on, um, keeping the business running, uh, or making sure that everybody can get their bobbleheads from Amazon the next day, um, it's all very important, um, not only for, um, our reputation, but our financial bottom line.
17:42
So, you know, the biggest thing is everything is important.
17:47
Nothing is not important.
17:49
And even if it's something that you could objectively look at as being maybe this isn't so critical, it's critical to somebody.

13 MINS LATER

Derek OatesMODERATOR
30:31
Mm-hmm.
8:37
Mm-hmm.
8:37
We focus on different areas.
8:39
You have government, you have consulting, you have academia, you have private industry.
8:46
Um, it's ...
8:48
We all have different perspectives, we all have different things that, that we do and we need to do.
8:56
Um, however, we kind of all need the same info when it boils down to it, you know? We might be trying to do slightly different things with it, but, you know, I'm trying to help make sure that UPS customers get the service that they're paying for, but also help UPS as a whole survive, you know? We, we've, you know, JLR barely made it through what happened to them, so we need to make ...
9:21
And that's a huge economic impact, not only to the company, but to everybody else who depends on that.

26 MINS LATER

35:00
Mm-hmm.
8:37
Mm-hmm.
8:37
We focus on different areas.
8:39
You have government, you have consulting, you have academia, you have private industry.
8:46
Um, it's we all have different perspectives.
8:49
We all have different things that, that we do and we need to do.
8:56
Um, however, we kind of all need the same info when it boils down to it, you know? We might be trying to do slightly different things with it, but you know, I'm trying to help make sure that UPS customers get the service that they're paying for, but also help UPS as a whole survive, you know? We, we've...
9:16
You know, JLR barely made it through what happened to them, so we need to make...

26 MINS LATER

35:00
Mm-hmm.

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