Category: summer2017

Patent Wars

This week I am bringing to our class of tech enthusiasts and curious minds a topic of patent war and its interesting cases. The patent is not so new term in the tech industry. Patent wars started a long time ago f.e. it was famous Abraham Graham Bell, who was accused of stealing and plagiarized the… Read more Patent Wars

Big Data & Sports

Using statistics in sports in not a new thing. Team’s win rates and a basketball player’s shooting rate are for example terms that often come up in a sport-related conversation. However with the fast-growing ability of acquiring data, statistics are becoming a huge part of every single sport that is out there. Data has become… Read more Big Data & Sports

Big Data Is a Big Deal

We have been collecting, combining and analyzing data for decades now and slowly as technology is advancing, big data analytics is becoming more and more useful. Big data analytics plays a big role in my life personally and continues to make it better everyday. I had been dealing with chronic foot pain since 11 years… Read more Big Data Is a Big Deal

Cybersecurity: Industrial Control Systems and the U.S. Electric Grid

The U.S. electric grid, critical to supporting modern conveniences and enabling the enjoyment of a high standard of living, is dependent on a layered grid architecture including generation of power, transmission over two hundred thousand miles of power lines, and distribution to businesses and residences.1 When originally established, generation was accomplished via mechanical devices and processes… Read more Cybersecurity: Industrial Control Systems and the U.S. Electric Grid

IoT devices and DDoS attacks

Last Friday, Steve Herrod, Managing Director of General Catalyst, warned us about the dangers of the lack of security of the Internet of Things (IoT), namely all the poorly secured devices which are part of it. Indeed, hackers can hijack most of these devices, and then to turn this Internet of Things into a real… Read more IoT devices and DDoS attacks

Trust me, I’m a medically trained device

On the morning of the 27th of June 2017, Stanford Medicine and Duke University School, welcomed a few volunteers into their offices. Every participant had to sign a consent form before they could collect two devices that will monitor their biomedical stats for the next few years (heartbeat, activity, sleep pattern etc.). The project is… Read more Trust me, I’m a medically trained device

Cybersecurity spring cleaning!

Cybersecurity is like exercise, we all know we should be doing more of it but most of us do the bare minimum. Guilty! Almost every single one of our speakers to date touched upon a different angle of information cybersecurity. Each underlined the importance of it – from the Government and public service obligation perspective,… Read more Cybersecurity spring cleaning!

Hardware Level Security

In this week’s lecture, Dr. Stephen Herrod mentioned the importance of cyber-security. Data storage is sensitive, and security of that data is very important. In addition, more and more data is being stored online including health records, etc. Stephen also mentioned how cyber attacks are becoming more sophisticated by using massive public cloud resources, hijacking the internet of things to create… Read more Hardware Level Security

Next-Generation Firewalls: Intelligent Threat Analytics in Cyberspace

Introduction During our lecture with Dr. Stephen Herrod, he had outlined the significance of Cybersecurity in the era of Cloud Computing, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and IoT. As Dr. Herrod indicated during our lecture, the potential impact and cost of a breach in security can lead to severe repercussions. When Target was hacked through their… Read more Next-Generation Firewalls: Intelligent Threat Analytics in Cyberspace

IoT Security: Big Opportunities from Billions of Devices

Internet of Things (IoT) The Internet of Things (IoT) is a system of interrelated computing devices, mechanical and digital machines, objects, animals or people that are provided with unique identifiers and the ability to transfer data over a network without requiring human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction.   The rapid rise of a new generation of connected, intelligent devices… Read more IoT Security: Big Opportunities from Billions of Devices