This
is an industry I could do very well in. Shame it’s not legal.
Cybercrime
May Be the World's Third-Largest Economy by 2021
As
organizations go digital, so does crime. Today, cybercrime is a
massive business in its own right, and criminals everywhere are
clamoring to get a piece of the action as companies and consumers
invest trillions to stake their claim in the digital universe.
That's
why the World Economic Forum's (WEF) "Global
Risks Report 2020”
states that cybercrime will be the second most-concerning risk for
global commerce over the next decade until 2030. It's also the
seventh most-likely risk to occur, and eighth most impactful. And
the stakes have never been higher. Revenue, profits, and the brand
reputations of enterprises are on the line; mission-critical
infrastructure is
being exposed to threats; and nation-states are engaging in cyber
warfare and cyber espionage with each other.
A
complex solution to a complex problem.
GDPR,
CCPA and beyond: How synthetic data can reduce the scope of stringent
regulations
As
many organizations are still discovering, compliance is complicated.
Stringent regulations, like the GDPR and the CCPA, require multiple
steps from numerous departments within an enterprise in order to
achieve and maintain compliance. From understanding the regulations,
implementing technologies that satisfy legal requirements, hiring
qualified staff and training, to documentation updating and reporting
– ongoing compliance can be costly and time intensive.
… If
an organization can identify all of its personal data, take it out of
the data security and compliance equation completely – rending it
useless to hackers, insider threats, and regulation scope – it can
eliminate a huge amount of risk, and drastically the reduce the cost
of compliance.
… Synthetic
data makes this possible by removing identifiable characteristics of
the institution, customer and transaction to create what is called a
synthetic data set. Personally identifiable information is rendered
unrecognizable by a one-way hash process that cannot be reversed. A
cutting-edge data engine makes minor and random field changes to the
original data, keeping the consumer identity and transaction
associated with that consumer completely protected.
Once
the data is synthetized, it’s impossible for a hacker or malicious
insider to reverse-engineer the data.
Hasn’t
this been the goal and the fear since the start?
Artificial
intelligence is evolving all by itself
Artificial
intelligence (AI) is evolving—literally. Researchers have created
software that borrows concepts from Darwinian evolution, including
“survival of the fittest,” to build AI programs that improve
generation after generation without human input. The program
replicated decades of AI research in a matter of days, and its
designers think that one day, it could discover new approaches to AI.
… In
a preprint paper published last month on arXiv, the researchers show
the
approach can stumble on a number of classic machine learning
techniques, including
neural networks. The solutions are simple compared with today’s
most advanced algorithms, admits Le, but he says the work is a proof
of principle and he’s optimistic it can be scaled up to create much
more complex AIs.
I
imagine this would be irritating. Is it also negligent?
Ransomware
attacks lock 2 Manitoba law firms out of computer systems
Sean
Kavanagh reports:
Work at two Manitoba law firms is at a virtual standstill after cyber attacks left staff without access to their computer systems, locking out digital files, emails and data backups.
Read
more on CBC.ca.
(Related)
Recovery is possible, exposure is certain.
Backup
or Disaster Recovery for Protection Against Ransomware?
To
pay, or not to pay? Is it better to suffer the pain and outage of
ransomware – or pay up, and by doing so, end it?
Like
all such questions, there is no easy or simple answer. Can the
affected organization afford a loss of operation? Does it have SLAs
that will cause legal problems if they are broken? Does it have the
support of a larger organization – government or insurance – that
can either force its hand or support the cost of disruption? Is it in
thrall to shareholders?
The
best solution to difficult questions is to avoid the question. For
ransomware, that either means prevention or simple, low-cost
recovery. Since it is currently impossible to guarantee prevention,
the onus is on low-cost recovery to avoid the choice between downtime
and paying up.
Here
the choice is between data backup and disaster recovery. The
question now becomes, is backup alone enough, or is full disaster
recovery required to mitigate the effect of ransomware? By ‘disaster
recovery’, we mean the full gamut of backing up data, recovering
that data, and business restitution without loss of business
continuity.
… In
September 2016, the Barnstable, Massachusetts, police department
became
a victim of ransomware.
Just two months earlier, however, Barnstable’s CIO Craig Hurwitz
had deployed a backup and back-dating DR capability from Reduxio.
The
logs showed exactly when the infection occurred.
Hurwitz requested that Reduxio back date his systems to just two
minutes prior to the infection. This was achieved in just 35
minutes, with Barnstable PD operational without ransomware and
without paying a ransom.
Could
this continue after the pandemic?
SCOTUS
to Break Tradition Hold Oral Arguments by Teleconference
“The
Court will hear oral arguments by telephone conference on May 4, 5,
6, 11, 12 and 13 in a limited number of previously postponed cases.
The following cases will be assigned argument dates after the
Clerk’s Office has confirmed the availability of counsel:
18-9526,
McGirt
v. Oklahoma
19-46, United States Patent and Trademark Office v. Booking.com B.V.
19-177, Agency for International Development v. Alliance for Open Society International, Inc.
19-267, Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrissey-Berru, and 19-348, St. James School v. Biel
19-431, Little Sisters of the Poor Saints Peter and Paul Home v. Pennsylvania, and 19-454, Trump v. Pennsylvania
19-465, Chiafalo v. Washington
19-518, Colorado Department of State v. Baca
19-631, Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants, Inc.
19-635, Trump v. Vance
19-715, Trump v. Mazars USA, LLP, and 19-760, Trump v. Deutsche Bank AG
19-46, United States Patent and Trademark Office v. Booking.com B.V.
19-177, Agency for International Development v. Alliance for Open Society International, Inc.
19-267, Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrissey-Berru, and 19-348, St. James School v. Biel
19-431, Little Sisters of the Poor Saints Peter and Paul Home v. Pennsylvania, and 19-454, Trump v. Pennsylvania
19-465, Chiafalo v. Washington
19-518, Colorado Department of State v. Baca
19-631, Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants, Inc.
19-635, Trump v. Vance
19-715, Trump v. Mazars USA, LLP, and 19-760, Trump v. Deutsche Bank AG
In
keeping with public health guidance in response to COVID-19, the
Justices and counsel will all participate remotely. The Court
anticipates providing a live audio feed of these arguments to news
media. Details will be shared as they become available. The Court
Building remains open for official business, but most Court personnel
are teleworking. The Court Building remains closed to the public
until further notice.”
Perspective.
Amazon
to Expand Shipments of Nonessential Items, Continue Adding Staff
Tech
giant’s planned hiring of 175,000 workers to help it handle surge
in orders during pandemic
The Pandemic
business?
Harvard
Business Review COVID Coverage
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myself.
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