7 Top Security Quotes From London Technology Week
Tech events across the city hit on IoT, smart cities, mobility and Legos.
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Although IFSEC International and Interop London were the headline acts, over 100 other tech-related events were scattered throughout the city during London Technology Week this week.
In a tiny pop-up at the Old Street Underground Station David Caygill of app start-up Savio explained that the "dirty secret" about activity trackers like Fitbits is that people stop using them within six months, "but they keep buying them." In the luxurious Canadian embassy building under a chandelier, evolutionary biologist Mark Bowden showed how certain postures made him appear arrogant by brazenly exposing "kill points" and how with human behavior, as in software development, input is the biggest indicator of output. (Garbage in, garbage out.)
There was also plenty said about security. Here are some of the highlights.
"Turns out not a lot, but there are a lot of cows." -- Eric Hanselman, chief analyst of 451 Research, on the underestimated amount of data generated by IoT devices in agriculture, at Interop London
--Brigadier Alan Hill, head operate and defend, info systems and services, Ministry of Defence, explaining how every time the military must install, update, or repair information technology in "deployed space," they must send someone to the front lines of battle to do so. "Every time you put a military person in the front line that's another life at risk," he said at Interop London.
--Futurologist Dr. Simon Moores, explaining at IFSEC International how smart cities like Songdo, South Korea rely heavily on a complex network of IoT devices that are "almost intractable" to integrate.
--Brigadier Hill, at Interop, on the challenge of outfitting equipment with IT security when the purchase of a naval ship might be a 20-year procurement process.
--Stuart Sherman, CEO of IMC Worldwide, at "The Future of Software Design in Organisations," about designing the most suitable software -- even when user-friendliness is not the most suitable attribute -- and how perhaps Lego should not have a "Breaking Bad" collection.
--David Emm, principal security research, global research and analysis team, Kaspersky Lab, at IFSEC, on users of public cloud services.
--Tim Holman, CEO of 2-Sec and director of ISSA, at Interop, about the trouble of understaffed and poorly trained information security teams.
--Tim Holman, CEO of 2-Sec and director of ISSA, at Interop, about the trouble of understaffed and poorly trained information security teams.
Although IFSEC International and Interop London were the headline acts, over 100 other tech-related events were scattered throughout the city during London Technology Week this week.
In a tiny pop-up at the Old Street Underground Station David Caygill of app start-up Savio explained that the "dirty secret" about activity trackers like Fitbits is that people stop using them within six months, "but they keep buying them." In the luxurious Canadian embassy building under a chandelier, evolutionary biologist Mark Bowden showed how certain postures made him appear arrogant by brazenly exposing "kill points" and how with human behavior, as in software development, input is the biggest indicator of output. (Garbage in, garbage out.)
There was also plenty said about security. Here are some of the highlights.
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