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Trevor Deering

Trevor Deering

Trevor Dearing, Director of Critical Infrastructure Solutions at Illumio, is a cybersecurity expert and frequent guest on Illumio's The Segment podcast.

Sep 14, 2026

Fung-Tee NguyenCORRESPONDENT
5:05
What would you say are the unique challenges that critical infrastructure organizations face when it comes to cyber threats?
5:10
A challenge that when you are a utility as an electricity company or water company or things like this, then you don't necessarily always have the latest up-to-date security capability as you would, for instance, in a bank or something like this.
5:26
This goes for utilities all across the globe, is that the way that they are generally funded is that they work on budgetary cycles, quite long budgetary cycles.
5:36
So there isn't necessarily a separate fund for cybersecurity.
5:41
And given a lot of the new legislation around the world for critical infrastructure, it's it's very difficult for those utilities to actually be able to then fund what they need to do.
5:52
So there needs to be a review of the way that a lot of cybersecurity functions are funded within utilities around the world.
Fung-Tee NguyenCORRESPONDENT
5:59
Do you think that we just need to go in and rework the entire system then?
6:03
I think so.

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