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Paul Smith

Paul Smith

Global Portfolio Director, Cybersecurity at Honeywell; former CTO at SCADAfence (acquired by Honeywell); author of "Pentesting Industrial Control Systems"; industrial cybersecurity expert specializing in OT security and threat mitigation.

Jul 14, 2026

2:25
So, you know, with this increased availability of things like advanced malware through g- generative AI, yeah, how do you see the threat landscape evolving for industrial operations? A- and just kind as a follow-up to that, so what implications does this have for your traditional cybersecurity frameworks that organizations have relied on?
2:46
Yeah, no, this is great topic.
2:48
I mean, when, when everyone started talking AI, uh, and I'll go back, I mean, around, I wanna say nine years ago, I, I tried to build the next generation PLC, um, with AI on chip, and thinking, you know, the world is gonna evolve and that the Edge compute will eat the cloud infrastructure, and I was nine years too soon.
3:13
And then as I watched the, the landscape progress, I, I was a little skeptical.
3:18
I, I, I kind of stepped back and said, you know, AI is gonna be the next generation search engine, which it is for most people.
3:24
Most people get onto, you know, ChatGPT or Grok or Gemini or, um, Copilot and ask questions and it's amazing.
3:32
Instead of, you know, getting a list of websites you have to go to, now it'll give you that exact detail that you're looking for that you don't have to go wade around the, the slop that's out there.

13 MINS LATER

16:39
So I'm kind of curious then, what are the, what do you believe are some of those key principles that organizations should adopt to build long-term resilience against these cyber threats? And then how can they balance that immediate security needs with future-proofing their operations?
2:39
So what implications does this have for your traditional cybersecurity frameworks that organizations have relied on?
2:46
Yeah, no, this is a great topic.
2:48
I mean, when everyone started talking AI, and I'll go back, I mean, around, I want to say nine years ago, I tried to build the next generation PLC with AI on chip.
3:03
And thinking, you know, the world is going to evolve and that the edge compute will eat the cloud infrastructure.
3:10
And I was nine years too soon.
3:13
And then as I watched the landscape progress, I was a little skeptical.
3:18
I kind of stepped back and said, you know, AI is going to be the next generation search engine, which it is for most people.

13 MINS LATER

16:39
So I'm kind of curious, Senyo, what do you believe are some of those key principles that organizations should adopt to build long-term resilience against these cyber threats? And then how can they balance that immediate security needs with future-proofing their operations?

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