CPS Energy
Brandon Pixley is Director of Threat Intelligence and Security Awarenessa at CPS Energy.
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PUF's Steve Mitnick: Tell us about your job at CPS Energy, which is one of our nation's major utilities, what you do, and what your typical day is like.
Brandon Pixley: My job title is Director of Threat Intelligence and Security Awareness. I get the opportunity to lead two great groups, Enterprise IT Security and Threat Intelligence Security Awareness.
Part of my responsibility is to create processes and procedures for gathering what we call CTI, or Cyber Threat Intelligence, as well as intelligence in general of any threats facing our company. We then disseminate the information to our business units.
My team is also in charge of developing training and making sure users are aware of what could potentially impact them and our company. Those are things like phishing emails or putting fake thumb drives on the grounds to simulate some exercises.
The other half of my responsibility is leading the folks who secure and defend our infrastructure.