Megan Samford: “Trees, Chainsaws, and Cyber”

August 21, 2024

Lessons from the School of Security Hard Knocks
Megan Samford: “Trees, Chainsaws, and Cyber”

In this podcast episode of Lessons from the School of Security Hard Knocks, special guest Megan Samford, VP and Chief Product Security Officer – Energy Management at Schneider Electric, joins us. Currently the only female CPSO for a leading industrial, Megan focuses on security and risk analysis of industrial control systems.

Megan opens up about her role at Schneider Electric, shares her thoughts on the top security concerns in energy management, discusses how to efficiently manage product security at different companies and best communicate across departments, chats about some of her industry initiatives, and what she would do if she were director of CISA.

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