Moving Minds Giuseppe Serio hosts Cosimo Senni Guidotti Magnani

In 2011, simulating signals on the CAN bus during a diesel powertrain project, Cosimo Senni Guidotti Magnani realized he could fake any vehicle speed he wanted by overwriting a single message. The Automotive industry barely had a word yet for what he had found. 

He spent the next two decades building the cybersecurity teams and functions that did not exist before him, most recently founding a 50-person global vehicle security organization in a single year. 

In this Moving Minds conversation with Giuseppe Serio, the mathematician turned cybersecurity leader makes a case few in the field will say out loud: the movie-scale scenario of hackers disabling millions of passenger cars is the most overrated threat in the business, while the ransomware that can ground a fleet of trucks or farm combines for a month is the one that deserves the attention. It is a grounded, contrarian view from someone who has secured connected products from the inside, and who still believes that when a problem has never been solved before, will matters more than skill.