Another
risk you have to convince your BoD is real.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/30/rogue-fears-rise-in-companies-as-hacks-turn-into-home-invasions.html
Rogue
fears rise inside corporations as hacks evolve into ‘home
invasions’
… The
percentage of technology executives who said state-sponsored
cyberwarfare was the most dangerous cyberthreat their company faced
declined from 38% to 26% in the third-quarter 2019 CNBC Technology
Executive Council survey. But concerns about rogue employees rose,
from 14% to over 18% of executives citing it as the biggest danger.
And for the first time, rogue vendors showed up in the results, with
near-6% of tech executives saying this was their biggest cyberthreat.
… Victimized
corporations’ networks are used to attack their customers and
partners via what Kellermann called “island hopping,” which is
occurring 51% of the time. Recent attacks that were a result of
island hopping, including the attacks against 24 towns and cities in
Texas; the Marriott
International breach
and, most notably, the Chinese
Cloud Hopper campaign reportedly targeted
companies including IBM
and
Hewlett
Packard Enterprises to
attack their customers.
An
IT problem becomes a brand problem
Perspective.
NSA
on the Future of National Cybersecurity
Glenn
Gerstell, the General Counsel of the NSA, wrote a long and
interesting op-ed
for
the New
York Times
where he outlined a long list of cyber risks facing the US.
There are four key implications of this revolution that policymakers in the national security sector will need to address:
The first is that the unprecedented scale and pace of technological change will outstrip our ability to effectively adapt to it. Second, we will be in a world of ceaseless and pervasive cyberinsecurity and cyberconflict against nation-states, businesses and individuals. Third, the flood of data about human and machine activity will put such extraordinary economic and political power in the hands of the private sector that it will transform the fundamental relationship, at least in the Western world, between government and the private sector. Finally, and perhaps most ominously, the digital revolution has the potential for a pernicious effect on the very legitimacy and thus stability of our governmental and societal structures.
He
then goes on to explain these four implications. It's all
interesting, and it's the sort of stuff you don't generally hear from
the NSA. He talks about technological changes causing social
changes, and the need for people who understand that. (Hooray for
public-interest
technologists.)
He talks about national security infrastructure in private hands, at
least in the US. He talks about a massive geopolitical restructuring
-- a fundamental change in the relationship between private tech
corporations and government. He talks about recalibrating the Fourth
Amendment (of course).
The
essay is more about the problems than the solutions, but there is a
bit at the end:
The first imperative is that our national security agencies must quickly accept this forthcoming reality and embrace the need for significant changes to address these challenges. This will have to be done in short order, since the digital revolution's pace will soon outstrip our ability to deal with it, and it will have to be done at a time when our national security agencies are confronted with complex new geopolitical threats.
Much of what needs to be done is easy to see -- developing the requisite new technologies and attracting and retaining the expertise needed for that forthcoming reality. What is difficult is executing the solution to those challenges, most notably including whether our nation has the resources and political will to effect that solution. The roughly $60 billion our nation spends annually on the intelligence community might have to be significantly increased during a time of intense competition over the federal budget. Even if the amount is indeed so increased, spending additional vast sums to meet the challenges in an effective way will be a daunting undertaking. Fortunately, the same digital revolution that presents these novel challenges also sometimes provides the new tools (A.I., for example) to deal with them.
The second imperative is we must adapt to the unavoidable conclusion that the fundamental relationship between government and the private sector will be greatly altered. The national security agencies must have a vital role in reshaping that balance if they are to succeed in their mission to protect our democracy and keep our citizens safe. While there will be good reasons to increase the resources devoted to the intelligence community, other factors will suggest that an increasing portion of the mission should be handled by the private sector. In short, addressing the challenges will not necessarily mean that the national security sector will become massively large, with the associated risks of inefficiency, insufficient coordination and excessively intrusive surveillance and data retention.
A smarter approach would be to recognize that as the capabilities of the private sector increase, the scope of activities of the national security agencies could become significantly more focused, undertaking only those activities in which government either has a recognized advantage or must be the only actor. A greater burden would then be borne by the private sector.
It's
an extraordinary essay, less for its contents and more for the
speaker. This is not the sort of thing the NSA publishes. The NSA
doesn't opine on broad technological trends and their social
implications. It doesn't publicly try to predict the future. It
doesn't philosophize for 6000 unclassified words. And, given how
hard it would be to get something like this approved for public
release, I am left to wonder what the purpose of the essay is. Is
the NSA trying to lay the groundwork for some policy initiative?
Some legislation? A budget request? What?
Depressingly
true.
DHS
lacks a cyber workforce strategy four years later
The
Department
of Homeland Security can’t
ensure it’s prepared for increasing national cybersecurity threats
because it has yet to complete a thorough workforce assessment,
according to an inspector general report.
The tools of
surveillance.
Glyn
Moody reports:
Here on Techdirt, we love digital technology. We love how Moore’s Law and its equivalents help drive continual innovation and open up interesting new uses and possibilities. But powerful technology is just a tool, and like any other tool it can be used in good and bad ways. Which brings us to this latest piece of high-tech wizardry: a 500-megapixel cloud-based camera system with built-in AI, developed in China. The English-language Global Times, which is closely aligned with the views of the Chinese government, explains one possible use of such a system:
For example, in a stadium with tens of thousands of people, the camera can shoot a panoramic photo with a clear image of every single human face, the report said.
Read
more on TechDirt.
Rearchitecting
the enterprise.
Putting
AI in the Internet of Things
The
central nervous system is made up of the brain, the spinal cord and
nerves. Your nerves respond to external stimuli, such as temperature
or pressure, and transmit signals back to the brain, which decides on
the appropriate reaction. In manufacturing, the myriad of connected
Internet of Things devices act as the nerves, measuring parameters
and collecting data, but what’s the brains behind the operation?
Here Sophie Hand, UK country manager at EU
Automation explains
how artificial intelligence might just be the brains we need.
Gartner
predicts that by 2022, more than 80 per cent of enterprise IoT
projects will include an AI component, skyrocketing up from just ten
per cent in 2019.
Interesting.
A
20-Year Community Roadmap for Artificial Intelligence Research in the
US
… These
are the major recommendations of a recent community effort
coordinated by the Computing Community Consortium and the Association
for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence to formulate a Roadmap
for AI research and development over the next two decades.
I’ll take all the education I can get.
Microsoft
has
often highlighted the significance of artificial intelligence (AI) in
recent months. In June, the tech giant, citing a study, noted
that AI would contribute $5 trillion to global GDP growth in
the coming years, among other advantages. On the same day, Microsoft
highlighted
its AI solutions that
are being used to keep infrastructure safe. In the more recent past,
we've also seen a couple of interesting
Microsoft patents utilizing
various
artificial intelligence systems.
Now,
the
Redmond firm has launched a new podcast series centered
around the technology wave in different fields of education. Titled
"Artificial Intelligence in Education", the first episode
of this podcast has been released.
… If
you are interested in checking out the series, you can access the
first episode right now on
Spotify, Apple
Podcasts,
Google
Podcasts,
and other podcast apps. Alternatively, you can also listen to it
directly on
its official website.
Nothing introduces error faster than reentering
data that was entered, then printed, and then faxed.
Collaborative
Law Firm: The Fax is Dead, Long Live the Fax
Via
LLRX
–
Collaborative
Law Firm: The Fax is Dead, Long Live the Fax –
The
long heralded death of fax machines has yet to materialize as
doctors, pharmacists, state, local and federal government, to name
just a few groups, continue to rely on systems that originated in the
19th century. Nicholas
Moline,
a member of Justia’s Engineering team identifies multiple ways that
faxes continue to be used in law firms.
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