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Dean Webb

Dean has a background in cybersecurity, military history, and economics. With Merlin Labs, he advises and researches matters of network security, OT/IT convergence, and zero trust.

More Power to You: Accelerating Energy Modernization

More Power to You: Accelerating Energy Modernization

I recently watched a disaster response planning video from CISA. This particular video discussed how dependencies between sectors would deepen and widen the impact of a disaster that initially impacted just one sector. The energy sector is particularly interrelated to the other sectors: we need powe...
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Zero trust security at the movies

Zero trust security at the movies

Zero trust security is a simple set of principles: continuous verification, limit the blast radius, automate responses. Quite a simple set of ideas to keep track of. As a buzzword, it truly is what it sounds like: zero trust. It doesn’t matter if I trusted something the last time it requested access...
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IoT security without unplugging everything

IoT security without unplugging everything

On March 29, 2022, CISA issued a joint advisory with the Department of Energy (DOE), to secure internet-connected, uninterruptible power supply (UPS) devices. With threat actors continuing to evolve their attack methods and vulnerable internet-connected UPS devices offering an easy pathway to the ne...
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