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Cybersecurity Under Pressure. Real Attacks, Real Lessons

Cybersecurity Under Pressure. Real Attacks, Real Lessons

Antonio González 67 Episodes Jul 8, 2026

This podcast breaks down real cybersecurity incidents to understand what actually went wrong, not in theory, but in practice. Each episode analyzes a recent attack, explains the technical mechanics in clear language, and translates them into concrete lessons for security, engineering, and business teams. Topics covered include OT security, ICS cybersecurity, industrial control systems, critical infrastructure protection, NIS2 compliance, Zero Trust architecture, operational technology resilience, railway cybersecurity, automotive security, and cyber-physical systems.

Episodes

How EV Chargers Could Crash the Grid: The Cyber Risk Behind Mass Electrification Jul 8, 2026 00:49:18 In this episode of Cybersecurity Under Pressure: Real Attacks, Real Lessons, we explore how electric vehicle chargers could become more than a mobility cybersecurity problem.As EV charging infrastructure grows, thousands of connected chargers start acting like distributed energy assets. Each charger depends on firmware, cloud platforms, payment systems, operator backends, remote maintenance, APIs
Defending Industrial Networks from Cyber Attacks: Why Resilience Beats Perimeter Security Jul 6, 2026 00:42:36 In this episode of Cybersecurity Under Pressure: Real Attacks, Real Lessons, we look at what it really means to defend an industrial network when production, safety and uptime are part of the equation.Industrial environments are not protected by applying standard IT controls in isolation. Many plants still depend on legacy assets, flat network zones, fragile protocols, shared vendor access, engine
Industrial 5G and the Uptime Trap: When Connectivity Becomes a Production Risk Jul 3, 2026 00:44:21 In this episode of Cybersecurity Under Pressure: Real Attacks, Real Lessons, we explore the hidden risk behind industrial 5G: the belief that better connectivity automatically means stronger resilience.Private 5G, edge computing and connected industrial assets can improve flexibility, latency and operational visibility. But they also change the risk model of the plant. The production environment b
Hacking EV Chargers to Stress the Grid: When Mobility Becomes Critical Infrastructure Jul 1, 2026 00:37:58 n this episode of Cybersecurity Under Pressure: Real Attacks, Real Lessons, we explore why EV chargers should no longer be treated as simple connected devices.As electric mobility scales, charging infrastructure becomes part of a wider cyber-physical system that connects vehicles, users, payment platforms, operators, cloud backends, energy providers and the grid. A weakness in one layer may not on
Teenage Hackers and Software-Defined Factories: When Industrial Risk Starts with Identity Jun 29, 2026 00:38:47 In this episode of Cybersecurity Under Pressure: Real Attacks, Real Lessons, we look at a uncomfortable shift in industrial cybersecurity: the attacker does not always need deep OT knowledge to create operational impact.As factories become more software-defined, the attack surface moves beyond PLCs, HMIs and plant networks. Identity, remote access, cloud services, engineering workstations, supplie
The Compliance Theater. Draining Supplier R&D and Breaking Automotive Silos. Jun 26, 2026 00:30:20 our Tier-2 supplier just spent 80,000 euros on compliance. Their product cybersecurity did not improve by a single cent.In this episode of "Cybersecurity Under Pressure: Real Attacks, Real Lessons," we look at the compliance trap the automotive industry has built for its own supply chain. A single electronic component supplier must now navigate the overlapping demands of UNR 155, TISAX,
The Red Signal. Paralyzing a Railway Network with a Single Patch Jun 24, 2026 00:35:34 In railway signaling, an uncoordinated security patch rarely causes a fatal accident. But it can paralyze an entire network.In this episode of Cybersecurity Under Pressure Real Attacks Real Lessons, we explore the structural tension between RAMS engineering and cybersecurity in critical railway infrastructure.We operate under EN 50129, where fail-safe guarantees that an interlocking system degrade
The Shadow Corridor. Legacy VPNs and the Financial Blast Radius in OT Jun 22, 2026 00:50:46 Last month, a maintenance technician connected to a Level 1 PLC via VPN to fix a sensor. He did not know he had just opened the only door an attacker needed.In this episode of Cybersecurity Under Pressure Real Attacks Real Lessons, we look at a quiet failure in industrial architecture. The Purdue Model is not dead, but it is being bypassed from the inside. A direct VPN tunnel to OT infrastructure
Missing Cybersecurity Evidence Can Delay Production Jun 19, 2026 00:39:21 The next production delay may not come from a missing component. It may come from missing cybersecurity evidence.In this episode of Cybersecurity Under Pressure: real attacks, real lessons, we look at a growing risk in automotive supply chains: suppliers may deliver the ECU, the software may work, and the release plan may look under control. Then a vulnerability appears, a VSOC event raises questi
An IDPS Alert Is Not an Incident Response Capability Jun 17, 2026 00:39:05 Detecting a suspicious event in a vehicle is not the same as knowing what to do next.In this episode of Cybersecurity Under Pressure: real attacks, real lessons, we look at one of the weakest points in automotive cybersecurity: the gap between detection and decision-making.A vehicle may report suspicious diagnostic behaviour. A backend may receive telemetry. A VSOC may flag an anomaly linked to co
The Restart Bottleneck Is Not the Backup. It Is the Evidence. Jun 15, 2026 00:54:24 After an OT cyber incident, restoring systems is only the visible part of recovery. The harder question comes next: who can prove that production is safe to restart?In this episode of Cybersecurity Under Pressure: real attacks, real lessons, we look at why OT recovery is different from IT recovery. A backup may exist. The PLC logic may appear unchanged. The virtual machine may boot. But in automot
When ECUs Meet Malice Jun 12, 2026 00:33:17 What if the most vulnerable point in automotive cybersecurity isn't the car itself, but the station that gives it its software identity, setting the stage for a potential disaster that could put lives at risk.In this episode we break down the critical intersection of product cybersecurity and factory cybersecurity, and explore the potential consequences of a compromised ECU flashing station. W

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