101: Exploring the IoT and OT Cybersecurity World with Dr. Jesus Molina: An Expert's Insights and Experiences

There was two pivotal moments.

First, that's where I built my first patent.

And I was kind of screwed with it because my professor, William Arag, actually made a company out of it and make a lot of money.

And I didn't get any of the money because I was not part of it.

But I signed off my patent because I was a young student, and he told me, be careful what you sign.

And I did sign out of my patent.

But anyway, what I'm saying is that sometimes when you're young, you're very trusting, and that's something you learn.

But what I built there with William Auerbach was this patent work in 2016 is an intuition detection system, but in hardware.

So basically, it was a PCI boards that you plug into your computer, and it will check your memory and your hard drive, but without the intervention of the operating system.

So basically, we'll use the PCI bus to download modules from memory and download parts of the drive itself, the blocks, and it will evaluate them.

So hackers could not have any chance.

You know, you go to the computer, and you don't have any chance.

That's one thing that was very interesting to me, because I have to work with hardware.

Like, I'm actually making use of what what we call EPSTA 285.

It was an ARM processor.

So you have to install Linux in ARM, and I have to call ARM.

So it was really interesting.

And the concept is really sound.

And after that, that was my master's thing.

And after that, I did my PhD, which was on evaluating intuition detection systems.

And perhaps the biggest lesson I learned there is that I created all these honeypots.

So I put like 100, I think, honeypots And I could capture all the information that all these bad people did and try to evaluate them, right? And the honeypots were very special because I did it in a way where they have like three levels of monitoring and one was created by me using a kernel model.

So I detected, I think it was 800 intrusions and I make all these big mathematical models, but there was one thing that escaped me.

There was one person, only one, and that was able to disable my first monitoring system, my second monitoring system, and my third monitoring system.

And there was no reason for him to do that because at some point he knew that was a honeypot.