Moving Minds: Giuseppe Serio hosts Tim Geiger

Tim Geiger helped build automotive cybersecurity before the industry knew it needed it.

As one of Ford’s early leaders on connected vehicle architecture, he was in the room when the first OTA updates were deployed and the first firewalls were drawn between safety systems and the outside world.

In this Moving Minds conversation, Giuseppe Serio sits down with Tim to trace how cybersecurity evolved from a niche engineering concern into a core design discipline. They cover the layers-of-defense mindset, the challenge of driving security culture inside a global OEM, and why data, APIs, and AI are now defining the next frontier of vehicle protection.

This episode offers a rare firsthand account of how the foundations of automotive cybersecurity were actually built, and what that history means for the road ahead.