Author Profile

Dr. Sean McBride is director of the Informatics Research Institute at Idaho State University’s College of Technology where he works to infuse engineering professionals with critical cybersecurity skills. Before joining ISU, McBride pioneered the multidisciplinary field of threat and vulnerability intelligence for industrial environments. At Idaho National Laboratory (INL) he instituted and led the vulnerability analysis and situational awareness reporting elements foundational to the DHS ICS-CERT. In 2009 he cofounded Critical Intelligence (acquired by iSIGHT Partners in 2015) to help organizations that own and operate electric generating stations, oil refineries and water treatment plants understand threats to the industrial processes they operate.