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Wednesday, 10 August 2016

Security leaders convene next month - Don’t miss out

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You may have strong security practices in place, but the ever-changing world of cloud applications and mobile devices is creating new security challenges for your company. We're talking about corporate partnerships that require sharing sensitive data in cloud apps, identity-management technologies, global network threats and even your own employees: all of these emerging threats pose a security risk to your company's data.

Anyone responsible for leading or securing a modern technology-enabled company faces these potential threats - which is why we've gathered the leading experts in the world at Structure Security to discuss problems, solutions, and opportunities.

Hear from:

Adrian Ludwig, Android Security, Google
Arlette Hart, CISO, FBI
Art Coviello, Former Executive Chairman, RSA Security
Dan Burns, Co-Founder & CEO, Optiv
Diana Kelley, Executive Security Advisor, IBM
Geoff Belknap, CSO, Slack
Jay Leek, CISO, Blackstone
Tom Corn, SVP, Security Products, VMware
Tom Le, Executive Director, Engineering, Cyber Security, GE, Wurldtech
And more...

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SPEAKERS

Dan Burns

Optiv

Art Coviello

Formerly at RSA Security

Diana Kelley

IBM

Jay Leek

Blackstone

Bethany Mayer

Ixia

Stuart McClure

Cylance

Saturday, 6 August 2016

Structure News: Forget hanging chads; get ready for election hacking

Your weekly tech news roundup, with a little bit of Structure.

Where Your Vote Will Always Count

August 5th, 2016 / by Tom Krazit

This week, we'll talk about the scary possibility of a hacked election, how Okta's Todd McKinnon has put his company in a very interesting position, and another small step for quantum computing.

BIG PICTURE

As if this election year wasn't disconcerting enough, some U.S. government officials think it could be the first election (that we know of, anyway) in which hackers might attempt to influence the outcome.

We talked about the hubbub surrounding the Democratic National Convention last week, and the U.S. government still has yet to officially comment on whether or not it believes Russia was behind the theft of thousands of emails from Democratic National Committee staffers. But as reported by Buzzfeed, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said this week that his agency is also looking into ways to secure the electronic voting machines used in many precincts around the U.S. He's wondering if voting machines should be considered critical infrastructure, the same way we think about the electrical grid or the interstate highway system.

None of the steps Johnson is considering will happen this year. For one thing, the election is just three months away, and nationalizing our voting infrastructure is a project that could take years assuming it can overcome what is likely to be fierce opposition from some states and local communities, which generally have oversight over voting methods.

Yet it seems pretty obvious that there are some parties out in the world that would love to exploit electronic voting machines. Think past the shadowy quasi-national hacking groups looking to overturn the world order; what about individuals or corporations that want to influence a tax initiative in their state or county? Or ballot propositions in states like California, which have enormous ramifications depending on their outcome?

By next week we'll probably get a better sense of what the security community is thinking with regards to security of voting machines and the general political-security climate, as soon as Black Hat and Defcon attendees purge the cigarette smoke and cocktails of a week in Las Vegas. And well be sure to ask Arlette Hart, CISO of the FBI, about the prospect of a very new type of election fraud at Structure Security this September.

STRUCTURE NEWS

OKTA CEO TODD MCKINNON IS BUILDING TOOLS THAT HELP SECURE THE CLOUD AND MOBILE REVOLUTIONS

Speaking of Structure Security, I got a chance this week to sit down with Okta CEO Todd McKinnon (pictured), who will be speaking at the event in San Francisco. After a tepid 18 months or so for tech IPOs, Okta is widely believed to be preparing for such an event this fall. McKinnon, of course, didnt want to get into that for some reason, but he did share some interesting details about the insights that led him to found the company in 2009 to help CIOs secure and manage the growing list of cloud and mobile applications being used by their employees. Check out the post on our new Structure Events blog, where you'll find a lot of our new stuff over the next six months.

Structure Security will take place September 27th and 28th at the Golden Gate Club in San Franciscos beautiful Presidio district. In addition to Hart and McKinnon, we've confirmed several other great speakers, including industry legend Art Coviello, formerly of RSA, and Adrian Ludwig, head of security for Google's Android operating system. More details on the show are available here, and you can register for tickets here.

INDUSTRY NEWS

MESOSPHERE'S CONTAINER 2.0 UNITES STATELESS AND STATEFUL WORKLOADS

A week after the Apache Mesos project officially released Mesos 1.0, Mesosphere is already planning for Container 2.0. The company is working with Confluent and Datastax -- the maintainers of Kafka and Cassandra, respectively -- to let Mesosphere users orchestrate multiple workloads in ways it says are more efficient, as analyzed by The New Stack.

ATTIC LABS RAISES $8.1 MILLION TO PUSH ITS NOMS OPEN SOURCE DATABASE

Maybe it's a little too simple to call it a Github for data, but Attic Labs has developed a new type of database that lets multiple people work on a shared data set in new ways, according to Venturebeat. The company, founded by some of the people who created Googles Chrome browser, now has the backing from Greylock Ventures and others to tinker with what it thinks could be a breakthrough in data management.

HACKER DUMPS SENSITIVE PATIENT DATA FROM OHIO UROLOGY CLINICS

Its actually kind of amazing this doesnt happen more with medical records, but that's no consolation to the patients at several Ohio medical offices whose personal data was dumped on the internet by some jerk. Motherboard looks into the breach this week, which leaked personal health information alongside name and address data for no apparent reason.

NEW ATTACK STEALS SSNS, E-MAIL ADDRESSES, AND MORE FROM HTTPS PAGES

One of the first scary presentations out of Black Hat this week involves a vulnerability in HTTPS, which Google and others have been pushing everyone to adopt for security and encryption purposes. Ars Technica reports that the exploit, which has already been disclosed to Google and Microsoft, allows attackers to steal sensitive data from users of websites running HTTPS through malicious code running in an advertisement or on the page itself.

APPLE ANNOUNCES LONG-AWAITED BUG BOUNTY PROGRAM

Apple very rarely participates in industry-wide events like Black Hat, and even more rarely makes news in venues outside of its control. But it did both of those things in Las Vegas this week, announcing that it will pay up to $200,000 for the successful identification of flaws in iOS and other Apple products, according to Techcrunch.

RESEARCHERS UNVEIL WORLD'S FIRST PROGRAMMABLE QUANTUM PROCESSOR

We've been tracking the slow-but-steady process of the tech industry's quest to develop a working quantum computer, and researchers from The University of Maryland appear to have made a huge breakthrough. Previous experiments with quantum computers required processors that had been given very specific instructions, but the demonstration of a programmable processor (under completely unrealistic operating conditions, to be sure) paves the way for quantum computers to process multiple algorithms, as reported by Silicon Angle.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

Election security is now a national security issue; federal officials need to take the lead, and they need to do it quickly.”

-- Bruce Schneier, security researcher

Learn how @Okta raised $200 million to beat legacy players to the punch @toddmckinnon https://t.co/iB4wHId9sh9:10AM
Why does outside feedback make your engineering team stronger? @caseyjohnellis @Bugcrowd #structuresecurity https://t.co/iB4wHId9sh11:50AM
With over a billion active users, what's the current and future state of @Android security? Adrian Ludwig @google https://t.co/iB4wHId9sh8:10AM

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Wednesday, 3 August 2016

Gigaom Chats: Interfacing with machines in 2026

Mark Rolston talks about the future of human-machine interfacing with Gigaom

Mark Rolston, Cofounder and Chief Creative Officer of argodesign, is a renowned designer with a 25-year career of creating for the world's largest and most innovative companies. An early pioneer of software user experience, Mark helped forge the disciplines around user interface design and mobile platforms.

Mark Rolston will be speaking at Gigaom Change Leaders Summit in Austin, September 21-23rd. In anticipation of that, I caught up with him to ask a few questions.

Byron Reese: Let's start with what you think we will be interfacing with machines in a decade?

Mark Rolston: For most of the 20th century we imagined our future with very physical visions: Massive superstructures, space travel, and amazing machines taking care of everything around us. Today we see the future arriving very quietly but no less profound than those visions. In ten years we will speak as often, or likely more, to machines as we do each other. With some of those machines we will even develop relationships that leverage human concepts such as trust and friendship. Everyone, everything, and everywhere will be codified, interactive, and addressable through ubiquitous interfaces scattered throughout our environments. And most profoundly we will be part cyborg. I don't mean we will have mechanical implants (although we might) but instead if we were to assess who we are we will find a great part of us has become reliant on our digital dopplegangers. Our friends and business associates will frequently interact with our digital selves. By the way we call this digital+physical new self "Meta-Me". Many of these interactions will occur outside of our interference because our digital "meta-me" has come to know us so intimately that it knows how you think. Today we rely on external systems such as maps and yelp to help make decisions. In ten years our minds will become so entwined with digital systems that we will scarcely recognize our own independence.

So you really think that in just ten years we will count machines among our friends? Do people want emotional relationships with machinery?

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Monday, 1 August 2016

In the news

IN THE NEWS.

The necessity to harness the potential of quickly advancing new technologies creates a near-constant mandate for innovation in order to stay relevant. Survival is not guaranteed in a world when all is up for reinvention. There's no question we're in a new technological age but how many of us actually understand the vast potential that lies within this new normal? The biggest impacts of technology on our daily lives is still ahead of us, but already we're beginning to imagine and navigate how global economies, enterprise businesses and even the human race will adapt to ensure we all thrive. From a universal basic income, to understanding the fundamentals of workplace automation and our increasing ability to define the physical future, there's no question that disruption is here. It's happening now.

The Gigaom Change Team


	VR will be a $34 billion market by 2022. What are the top 8 sectors set to benefit and who are the key players driving the dramatic increase in revenues?

	What are the four fundamental things you must know about workplace automation? Leaders from the C-suite to the front line must redefine processes & jobs to take advantage of the significant potential.

	As jobs are replaced and the wealth gap widens, how do we ensure no-one is left behind? The widespread fear of substantial, permanent joblessness has caused the topic of a universal basic income (UBI) to move to the mainstream. How would this work?

Quote of the week... "The risks and opportunities for most businesses lie in the things that you're not thinking of." —‪Rob High, IBM Fellow, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, IBM Watson + Gigaom Change 2016 Leaders Summit Speaker‬

	Gigaom Change 2016 Leaders Summit announces 3 new visionary speakers. These change makers add to the ranks of 20+ other speakers at the forefront of the biggest technological advances set to change everything.

	3D printing will reinvent manufacturing to be hyper-global, hyper-local, & hyper-fast. More than just a new way of making things, entire economies will shift when 1 costs the same as 1000.

	Meet, "Jack". The latest self-driving car from Audi ‪is being taught how to be more human. With better and more intuitive road etiquette will cars eventually become better drivers than us?