An interesting opportunity for my students.
The Rise of
The Virtual Security Officer
The market for
virtual security officers is growing. We’ve had virtual chief
information security officers for a few years (vCISOs), and we can
expect to see virtual data protection officers (vDPOs) in the next
few. The demand for both is higher than it has ever been, and it is
likely to grow.
… It
is increasingly important for organizations to have and be seen to
have a CISO. The difficulty in keeping data safe from sophisticated
cyber criminals and well-resourced and persistent nation state actors
is compounded by a likely increase in regulatory demands that
organizations have a named CISO or head of cybersecurity.
The
latter is already happening. The New York State Department of
Financial Services regulation
23 NYCRR Section 500 states, “Each Covered Entity shall
designate a qualified individual responsible for overseeing and
implementing the Covered Entity’s cybersecurity program and
enforcing its cybersecurity policy (for purposes of this Part, ‘Chief
Information Security Officer’ or ‘CISO’).” It then adds that
this CISO need not be directly employed, but could, in fact, be a
virtual CISO.
GDPR,
Article 37, states, “The controller and the processor shall
designate a data protection officer…” This requirement for a DPO
applies to public bodies (apart from courts) and any organization
where data subject processing or monitoring occurs ‘on a large
scale’. Paragraph 2 adds, “A group of undertakings may appoint a
single data protection officer provided that a data protection
officer is easily accessible from each establishment;” again paving
the way for virtual DPOs.
Keeping my architecture students up to date.
Uber's
Online-Only Restaurants: The Future, Or The End Of Dining Out?
… Uber, the ride-sharing company, was
suggesting she create a "virtual restaurant" — one that
only exists online, and
delivers through Uber Eats.
There are now about 800 such virtual restaurants
in the U.S., often created when enough customers look through the
Uber Eats app for a certain type of food in their area that they
can't find.
"When
we see people searching for something but not finding it,
that signals to us that there's an opportunity and there's unmet
demand," says Elyse Propis, who leads Uber Eats' virtual
restaurant initiative across North America.
So the company approaches an eatery and suggests
creating a virtual side restaurant, with those dishes people are
craving but can't get.
Ideas worth adapting?
India Has
Already Hit Record Number of $1 Billion Startups This Year
… India’s first generation of internet
unicorns adapted business models from abroad. Ride-hailing company
Ola looks like Uber, for example; online retailers Snapdeal and
recent Walmart
acquisition Flipkart, like Amazon.com; digital-wallet leader
Paytm,
like China’s Alipay. Like Dahiya’s company, the new cohort is
aimed more squarely at the hundreds of millions of potential users
who don’t live in India’s major cities and may not speak much
English. Four of the five companies that researcher CB Insights says
have reached $1 billion valuations in the past year target some of
India’s fundamental needs in the education, logistics, and lodging
industries, says Sanchit Vir Gogia, who heads analysis company
Greyhound Research.
Perspective.
Addison Lee
plans self-driving taxis by 2021
Taxi firm Addison Lee […] joined forces with
self-driving software specialist Oxbotica, and says the tie-up means
it will offer self-driving taxis in the capital by 2021.
… Addison Lee says it will now work with
Oxbotica on digitally mapping public roads in and around the capital.
The detailed maps will record the position of
kerbs, road signs and traffic lights in preparation for autonomous
cars.
Perspective. My students are suggesting that
gasoline powered cars are doomed.
Uber to
charge its London passengers more for rides in $260 million drive to
go all-electric by 2025
… Uber will pay its drivers a certain amount
to help them pay for electric vehicles, dependent on the number of
miles they have driven using the company's app. "For example, a
driver using the app for an average of 40 hours per week could expect
around £3,000 of support towards an EV in two years' time and £4,500
in three years," the firm said in a statement.
It expects 20,000 drivers to upgrade to electric
vehicles by the end of 2021. The firm currently has
45,000 licensed drivers operating in the city and more than 3.5
million riders using the platform.
Perspective. Tracking another major player.
Ford
says it will start testing self-driving cars in Washington, DC early
next year and expects to launch commercial taxi and delivery services
in 2021
Just because I like lists. (Why pick that one?)
100
Websites That Shaped The Internet As We Know It
Gizmodod: 100
Websites That Shaped The Internet As We Know It – “The World
Wide Web is officially old enough for us judge what it’s produced.
That’s right, it’s time for the world to start building a canon
of the most significant websites of all time, and the Gizmodo staff
has opinions. What does a spot on this list mean? It
certainly doesn’t
mean “best.” A number of sites on this list are
cesspools now and always have been. We’re not even sure the
internet was a good idea — we’ll need another few decades before
we come to any conclusions. In this case, we set out to rank the
websites — not apps (like Instagram), not services (like PayPal) —
that influenced the very nature of the internet, changed the world,
stole ideas better than anyone, pioneered a genre, or were just
really important to us. Some of these sites seemed perfectly
arbitrary a decade ago and turned into monstrous destinations or
world-destroying monopolies. Other sites have been net positives for
humanity and gave us a glimpse of what can happen when the world
works together. In many ways this list is an evaluation of power and
who has seized it. In other ways, it’s an appreciation of the
places that still make the web worth surfing. Next year will be the
30th anniversary of Tim Berners-Lee’s first proposal to CERN
outlining what he originally called the “WorldWideWeb” (one
word). Since then, Berners-Lee has had a few
regrets about what’s become a bit of a Frankenstein’s
monster, and who knows what the future holds. Below you’ll find
our somewhat arbitrary idea of the virtual destinations that mattered
most, ranked and curated by the Gizmodo staff and illustrated with
screenshots that exemplify their history, as we’ve played, shared,
fought, and meme’d our way into the current millennium. [Note
– “some” of the sites referenced are Alive and Well –
thankfully – an example is DuckDuckGo – however – this site,
LLRX – was
somehow left off the list (22 years on the web), and so was this one
– BeSpacific.com –
younger sister to LLRX – at 16 years of age].
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