Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Cybersecurity in a World

With technology changing and developing every day, it is vital that today’s cybersecurity professionals are able to adapt to evolving situations without getting too rooted in one focus, according to the Emerging Tech Smackdown session at EMEA Member and Partner Conference.

Dr. James Stanger, Chief Technology Evangelist at CompTIA, (pictured right), led the session with Chris Hodson, CISO EMEA of Tanium, and Gary Fildes, cybersecurity and information security principle inspector at the Office of Nuclear Regulation, covering everything from the myth of the cybersecurity “expert” to the new threats faced from technologies like the internet of things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI).
IoT is Everywhere

The internet of things might be the most problematic technology from a cybersecurity standpoint because it is becoming increasingly integrated into society. The extent of this was demonstrated when the speakers asked the audience at EMEA to hold up their fingers to show how many IP-enabled devices they had on them at that moment in time. The vast majority of attendees had at least two devices, with many people holding up three and even four fingers.

Stanger, Hodson and Fildes discussed how machines communicate about us as we move, meaning that data is constantly being created and stored about us, some of which can be used for malicious purposes. They predicted that in the future, our environments will customize themselves for us because of the data collected by the devices that are in our lives.
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