A debate on how to manage Computer Security sounds
like fun. Should you budget to secure employee devices? Should the
government forbid employees from using their own servers (like
Hillary Clinton)?
Tim Cushing reports:
Notification of state-sponsored hacking attempts has revealed another weak spot in the US government’s defenses. The security of the government’s systems is an ongoing concern, but the Senate has revealed it’s not doing much to ensure sensitive documents and communications don’t end up in the hands of foreign hackers.
Read more on TechDirt.
Some customers are asking questions that companies
are not ready to answer? I would worry more about those industries
that don’t have questions.
Data
Privacy Concerns Cause Sales Delays: Cisco
Nearly
two-thirds of businesses worldwide have experienced significant
delays in sales due to customer data privacy concerns, according to
Cisco’s 2018 Privacy Maturity Benchmark Study.
The study,
based on the responses of roughly 3,000 cybersecurity professionals
from 25 countries, shows that 65% of businesses reported sales cycle
delays due to concerns over data privacy, with an average delay of
nearly 8 weeks.
However,
organizations with a mature privacy process are less affected
compared to privacy-immature companies. Privacy-mature firms
experienced delays of only 3.4 weeks, while immature businesses
reported delays averaging nearly 17 weeks.
Sales delays
have also varied depending on several other factors, including
country, with the longest delays reported in Mexico and Latin
America, and industry, with the longest delays in the government and
healthcare sectors.
… The
complete 2018 Privacy Maturity Benchmark Study is available for
download
in PDF format.
It’s not science fiction if the technology is in
use today. What would Jules Verne do?
Artificial
intelligence is going to supercharge surveillance
We usually think of
surveillance cameras as digital eyes, watching over us or watching
out for us, depending on your view. But really, they’re more like
portholes: useful only when someone is looking through them.
Sometimes that means a human watching live footage, usually from
multiple video feeds. Most surveillance cameras are passive,
however. They’re there as a deterrence, or to provide evidence if
something goes wrong. Your car got stolen? Check the CCTV.
But this is changing — and
fast. Artificial intelligence is giving surveillance cameras digital
brains to match their eyes, letting them analyze live video with no
humans necessary. This could be good news for public safety, helping
police and first responders more easily spot crimes and accidents and
have a range of scientific and industrial applications. But it also
raises serious questions about the future of privacy and poses novel
risks to social justice.
What happens when governments
can track huge numbers of people using CCTV? When police can
digitally tail you around a city just by uploading your mugshot into
a database? Or when a biased algorithm is running on the cameras in
your local mall, pinging the cops because it doesn’t like the look
of a particular group of teens?
(Related).
They Are
Watching You—and Everything Else on the Planet
About damn time!
FBI
Director Chris Wray Says Secure Encryption Backdoors Are Possible;
Sen. Ron Wyden Asks Him To Produce Receipts
Are you serious?
George
Soros calls Facebook and Google a 'menace' to society and 'obstacles
to innovation' in blistering attack
The billionaire investor and philanthropist George
Soros has launched a blistering and multipronged attack on Facebook
and Google, arguing the tech giants' size and "monopolistic"
behavior had made them a "menace" to society, damaged
democracy, and encouraged "addiction" akin to gambling
companies.
Speaking on Thursday at the World Economic Forum
in Davos, Switzerland, the Hungarian businessman said that
"social-media companies influence how people think and behave
without them even being aware of it," adding that they have
"far-reaching adverse consequences on the functioning of
democracy, particularly on the integrity of elections."
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