Category: Week4

Art vs Automation – the Rolls Royce dilemma

Art vs Automation – the Rolls Royce dilemma By Victor Moran   At the beginning of the 20th century, the Rolls Royce company was founded by “Henry Royce, a successful engineer and Charles Rolls, owner of one of the UK’s first motor car dealerships” (1). By 1907, the Silver Ghost was declared the best car… Read more Art vs Automation – the Rolls Royce dilemma

The BIGGEST BIG data!

There has been recently lot of car breaking on Stanford campus. A good way to stop this would be to have security through smart video surveillance: surveillance video cameras that can take decisions and alert the security team without a guard watching the video live 24h. We would have caught some of these bad guys… Read more The BIGGEST BIG data!

Big Data: A Terminal End

Recently, Facebook announced their revenue and performance expectations going forward.   It was less than impressive, which ended in $120 billion being wiped off their market value [1].  A large part of this was triggered by a consumer belief that they no longer trusted Facebook to protect their data [2].  It has long been accepted that… Read more Big Data: A Terminal End

AI and the insurance industry

AI is providing endless opportunities in analytics, marketing and software development for innovative professionals who are able to leverage technology effectively. With AI, there will be a shift in the skills needed to work in the insurance industry. Tech savvy professionals must train for the future and learn to work alongside AI to reveal their… Read more AI and the insurance industry

The future of distribution is “almost” ready to take off

Every now and then our eyes capture the sight of a small and noisy object flying across the sky. Mostly, it takes us some time to figure out and identify the rare encounter, but once we do, everybody seems amazed and cannot stop following its trajectory. Yes, in case a drone popped into your mind… Read more The future of distribution is “almost” ready to take off

Hacking: For Money or Change

A few years back, I became slightly obsessed with the show Black Mirror. One of it’s episodes, “Shut Up and Dance,” thoroughly freaked me out and got me paranoid about whether hackers could see what I was doing on my laptop screen or see my face while I was on my laptop (I covered up… Read more Hacking: For Money or Change

S(pace)aaS: The Future of On-Orbit Technologies

I had the great fortune of visiting the International Space Station Research & Development Conference in San Francisco this week [1]. The week focused on the promise and future that space offered in the realm of technology advancement. This ranged from space mining of rare earth materials all the way to privatized space stations for… Read more S(pace)aaS: The Future of On-Orbit Technologies

The Future of Cybersecurity is Quantum

Cryptography today mainly relies on math that is easy to do in one-way, and extremely difficult to do in the opposite way. Turns out, some of that math has to do with factoring very large prime numbers. For instance, it is easier to multiply 73 by 79 to get 5767 than to factor 5767 to… Read more The Future of Cybersecurity is Quantum

Individual Cyber-security Insurance

There have been gobs of innovative protection to help businesses safeguard against sensitive data breaches like computer hacking, dumpster diving, computer viruses, employee sabotage or error, pilferage of information, security failures, business interruption and identity theft. Most of them are corporate data instead of personal data. You don’t often hear a personal cyber insurance solution offered to individuals.… Read more Individual Cyber-security Insurance

Come, Let's take a walk down the Dark Side !

Is it alright to say, that the last 5 years weren’t a great year for Cyber-Security ? A lot of high end attacks like ransom ware were deployed on Tech giants like – Equifax, Uber, Deloitte has sent a chill down the spine of every CTO and highlights the responsibility of protecting the company’s most… Read more Come, Let's take a walk down the Dark Side !