1) The document discusses the concept of Cyber 3.0, which uses machine learning and semantic analysis to provide visibility, control, and context for cybersecurity in today's environment of hyperconnectivity, mobility, and big data.
2) Current cybersecurity solutions require human intervention that does not scale to address the speed, volume, and variety of network data.
3) Cyber 3.0 automates processes through machine learning to identify threats and enforce policies faster than human analysts can, providing the intelligence needed to protect critical assets now and in the future.
O National Security Alliance’s (InSA) Cyber Council, organização norte-americana de inteligência e segurança, publica o primeiro de vários relatórios destinados a ampliar a visão dos tomadores de decisão da indústria e do governo sobre a importância do desenvolvimento de uma “inteligência cibernética”.
The Internet is driving force on how we communicate with one another, from posting messages and images to Facebook or “tweeting” your activities from your vacation. Today it is being used everywhere, now imagine a device that connects to the internet sends out data based on its sensors, this is the Internet-ofThings, a connection of objects with a plethora of sensors. Smart devices as they are commonly called, are invading our homes. With the proliferation of cheap Cloud-based IoT Camera use as a surveillance system to monitor our homes and loved ones right from the palm of our hand using our smartphones. These cameras are mostly white-label product, a process in which the product comes from a single manufacturer and bought by a different company where they are re-branded and sold with their own product name, a method commonly practice in the retail and manufacturing industry. Each Cloud-based IoT cameras sold are not properly tested for security. The problem arises when a hacker, hacks into the Cloud-based IoT Camera sees everything we do, without us knowing about it. Invading our personal digital privacy. This study focuses on the vulnerabilities found on White-label Cloud-based IoT Camera on the market specifically on a Chinese brand sold by Shenzhen Gwelltimes Technology. How this IoT device can be compromised and how to protect our selves from such cyber-attacks.
Disaster Risk Management in the Information Ageglobal
International Day for Disaster Reduction at the World Bank
Disaster Risk Management in the Information Age
A joint training workshop by GICT, GFDRR, infoDev and LCSUW to mark the International Day for Disaster Reduction
O National Security Alliance’s (InSA) Cyber Council, organização norte-americana de inteligência e segurança, publica o primeiro de vários relatórios destinados a ampliar a visão dos tomadores de decisão da indústria e do governo sobre a importância do desenvolvimento de uma “inteligência cibernética”.
The Internet is driving force on how we communicate with one another, from posting messages and images to Facebook or “tweeting” your activities from your vacation. Today it is being used everywhere, now imagine a device that connects to the internet sends out data based on its sensors, this is the Internet-ofThings, a connection of objects with a plethora of sensors. Smart devices as they are commonly called, are invading our homes. With the proliferation of cheap Cloud-based IoT Camera use as a surveillance system to monitor our homes and loved ones right from the palm of our hand using our smartphones. These cameras are mostly white-label product, a process in which the product comes from a single manufacturer and bought by a different company where they are re-branded and sold with their own product name, a method commonly practice in the retail and manufacturing industry. Each Cloud-based IoT cameras sold are not properly tested for security. The problem arises when a hacker, hacks into the Cloud-based IoT Camera sees everything we do, without us knowing about it. Invading our personal digital privacy. This study focuses on the vulnerabilities found on White-label Cloud-based IoT Camera on the market specifically on a Chinese brand sold by Shenzhen Gwelltimes Technology. How this IoT device can be compromised and how to protect our selves from such cyber-attacks.
Disaster Risk Management in the Information Ageglobal
International Day for Disaster Reduction at the World Bank
Disaster Risk Management in the Information Age
A joint training workshop by GICT, GFDRR, infoDev and LCSUW to mark the International Day for Disaster Reduction
Pervasive computing is the growing trend towards embedding microprocessors in everyday objects so they can communicate information.
The words pervasive and ubiquitous mean "existing everywhere”.
It is also called “Ubiquitous computing”
Distributed Computing “two or more computers communicating and co-ordinating by message passing”.
Its also called as "Parallel computing”.
Inria - Cybersecurity: current challenges and Inria’s research directionsInria
Inria white books look at major current challenges in informatics and mathematics and show actions conducted by our project-teams to these challenges. Their goal is to describe the state-of-the-art of a given topic, showing its complexity, and to present existing, as well as emerging, research directions and their expected societal impact. This white book has been edited by Steve Kremer, Ludovic Mé, Didier Rémy and Vincent Roca. They coordinated the contributions from researchers of Inria teams (the complete list of contributors is given at the end of the book). Many thanks to Janet Bertot for proof-reading this document, as well as to François Pottier, Gabriel Scherrer, and Benjamin Smith who read parts of it.
Publication date: January 2019
This presentation was held by Michael Waidner at »Konferenz Zukünftiges Internet« on 5/6 of July 2011.
Can be also found at: http://www.future-internet-konferenz.de/programm/5.-juli-2011-1
Operational space of digital (r)evolution requires an instantaneous reaction. Seeking knowledge has brought me far beyond my personal horizons of discernment.
With hope to create and scale globally an inclusive ‘authors-publisher-readers’ circle of wisdom and expertise; with channeled determination to gain understanding by carefully selecting the best information sources (Dis moi où cherche! Mais où?) and reading between the lines, I invited the Cyber Warriors ‘Men and Women on the Arena’ with hope to “Raise the Cybersecurity Curtain”.
A central topic of these thoughts is cybersecurity. A fundamental and delicate question at the heart of my work is: how to inspire readers' thirst for knowledge, for learning.
I hope readers will gain insights into how they can guide their career path to the success they desire and benefit the global security community through their unique contributions.
Pervasive Computing Applications And Its Security Issues & Challengesiosrjce
IOSR Journal of Computer Engineering (IOSR-JCE) is a double blind peer reviewed International Journal that provides rapid publication (within a month) of articles in all areas of computer engineering and its applications. The journal welcomes publications of high quality papers on theoretical developments and practical applications in computer technology. Original research papers, state-of-the-art reviews, and high quality technical notes are invited for publications.
Raise The Cybersecurity Curtain!
With a clear grasp of systems theory and revelation of pervasive, persistent, and resilient interconnectedness, I set out on the journey to interact with 100 "best of the best" Cybersecurity / Information Security professionals to learn about their own EXPERIENCES and gain INSIGHTS from their personal perspectives.
I was truly blessed to have had a wide variety of insightful conversations with leaders who are serving their organizations at various levels.
I sincerely wanted to expand the impact of the lessons I learned from these interactions by sharing them with Cybersecurity enthusiasts around the globe - people who are paving their own way towards a successful Cybersecurity career.
I hope readers will gain insights into how they can guide their career path to the success they desire and benefit the global security community through their unique contributions.
Slides by Raquel Salcedo Gomes
For the English for Specific Purposes class at the IT technical course at IFSUL, campus Sapucaia do Sul. September 2017.
Pervasive computing is the growing trend towards embedding microprocessors in everyday objects so they can communicate information.
The words pervasive and ubiquitous mean "existing everywhere”.
It is also called “Ubiquitous computing”
Distributed Computing “two or more computers communicating and co-ordinating by message passing”.
Its also called as "Parallel computing”.
Inria - Cybersecurity: current challenges and Inria’s research directionsInria
Inria white books look at major current challenges in informatics and mathematics and show actions conducted by our project-teams to these challenges. Their goal is to describe the state-of-the-art of a given topic, showing its complexity, and to present existing, as well as emerging, research directions and their expected societal impact. This white book has been edited by Steve Kremer, Ludovic Mé, Didier Rémy and Vincent Roca. They coordinated the contributions from researchers of Inria teams (the complete list of contributors is given at the end of the book). Many thanks to Janet Bertot for proof-reading this document, as well as to François Pottier, Gabriel Scherrer, and Benjamin Smith who read parts of it.
Publication date: January 2019
This presentation was held by Michael Waidner at »Konferenz Zukünftiges Internet« on 5/6 of July 2011.
Can be also found at: http://www.future-internet-konferenz.de/programm/5.-juli-2011-1
Operational space of digital (r)evolution requires an instantaneous reaction. Seeking knowledge has brought me far beyond my personal horizons of discernment.
With hope to create and scale globally an inclusive ‘authors-publisher-readers’ circle of wisdom and expertise; with channeled determination to gain understanding by carefully selecting the best information sources (Dis moi où cherche! Mais où?) and reading between the lines, I invited the Cyber Warriors ‘Men and Women on the Arena’ with hope to “Raise the Cybersecurity Curtain”.
A central topic of these thoughts is cybersecurity. A fundamental and delicate question at the heart of my work is: how to inspire readers' thirst for knowledge, for learning.
I hope readers will gain insights into how they can guide their career path to the success they desire and benefit the global security community through their unique contributions.
Pervasive Computing Applications And Its Security Issues & Challengesiosrjce
IOSR Journal of Computer Engineering (IOSR-JCE) is a double blind peer reviewed International Journal that provides rapid publication (within a month) of articles in all areas of computer engineering and its applications. The journal welcomes publications of high quality papers on theoretical developments and practical applications in computer technology. Original research papers, state-of-the-art reviews, and high quality technical notes are invited for publications.
Raise The Cybersecurity Curtain!
With a clear grasp of systems theory and revelation of pervasive, persistent, and resilient interconnectedness, I set out on the journey to interact with 100 "best of the best" Cybersecurity / Information Security professionals to learn about their own EXPERIENCES and gain INSIGHTS from their personal perspectives.
I was truly blessed to have had a wide variety of insightful conversations with leaders who are serving their organizations at various levels.
I sincerely wanted to expand the impact of the lessons I learned from these interactions by sharing them with Cybersecurity enthusiasts around the globe - people who are paving their own way towards a successful Cybersecurity career.
I hope readers will gain insights into how they can guide their career path to the success they desire and benefit the global security community through their unique contributions.
Slides by Raquel Salcedo Gomes
For the English for Specific Purposes class at the IT technical course at IFSUL, campus Sapucaia do Sul. September 2017.
Cybercrime is nothing new. What is different now is the intimacy, reach and size of those attacks. There are hundreds of billions in losses each year. This unsettling state of affairs has created a binary world with really only two kinds of companies: those that have been hacked and admit it, and those that have been hacked and don't admit it or don’t know it yet. Worse yet, for the vast majority of individuals, very few of us have been untouched whether we know it or not.
In NTT i³’s book “CyberCrime: Radically Rethinking the Global Threat,” Rich Boyer, Chief Architect for Security and Dr. Kenji Takahashi, VP Product Management for Security examine the current arms race between cybercriminals and their diverse and agile toolkits and the radically new approaches to cybersecurity that the enterprise must adopt to compete and win.
Discussion 1Cloud computing offers the ability to share informatVinaOconner450
Discussion 1
Cloud computing offers the ability to share information and facilities belonging to multiple organizations or sites. Hence, expanding the use of cloud computing causes security challenges for us. NIST defines cloud computing as the representation for making relevant, on-demand adjustments for the right of entry into a collective pool. With fewer supervisory practices or cloud supplier contact, all of these networks, servers, storage, software and services are constantly designed.
Until now, cloud computing has been viewed as a revolutionary measuring concept. This required the use of more than one stage of thinking to quantify contact. The spot specifications of these providers are sold at cheaper rates online. The inference of high flexibility and usability is the reason. Cloud computing is the biggest subject that is starting to get the right kind of attention lately. The rewards of cloud computing platforms arise from financial networks of all types.
Cloud computing, is an evolving method of distributed computing that is still in its inception. The theory uses all levels of explanations and interpretation on its own. The main one that has connectivity and other calculative possessions is a public cloud. This is made accessible digitally to average citizens and is known to all the cloud service companies. The confidential cloud on the other side is the one in which the calculating atmosphere is fully created for the industry. This can be done by the sector or by third parties. This can be hosted in the knowledge hub of the industry. The private cloud gives the industry good leverage of the means of communication and computation relative to the public cloud. The hybrid cloud is primarily the fusion of two or more than two clouds, this becomes the unusual entities that are connected to each other by integrated or standardized technologies that facilitate interconnectivity.
Today, in certain ways, the focus is on vendors to detect and prevent cloud events. The more autonomy we have, the more flexibility we have in incorporating virtual appliances and resources for network security and the more we will be able to detect unusual incidents and take actions immediately.
Reference
Whitman, M., Mattord, H., & Green, A. (2013). Principles of Incident Response and Disaster Recovery. Cengage Learning.
Discussion 2
In cloud computing, there is a comfort of sharing distributed services and resources belonging to different sites or organization which help companies to manage their business operation globally and help it to expand their organization at a large scale. However, it also brings complexity to the incident handlers as firstly as many users can access the same information freely, there will be substrata of users who will not be paying for the resources and identifying those users is a challenge. Second, as there are numerous security parameters in cloud computing in terms of networks, databases, resource scheduling, and memory mana ...
Network security is a dynamic art, with dangers appearing as fast as black hats can exploit vulnerabilities. While there are basic “golden rules” which can make life difficult for the bad guys, it remains a challenge to keep networks secure. John Chambers, Executive Chairman of Cisco, famously said “there are two types of companies: those that have been hacked, and those who don’t know they have been hacked”. The question for most organizations isn’t if they’re going to be breached, but how quickly they can isolate and mitigate the threat. In this paper, we’ll examine best practices for effective cybersecurity – from both a proactive (access hardening) and reactive (threat isolation and mitigation) perspective. We’ll address how network automation can help minimize cyberattacks by closing vulnerability gaps and how it can improve incident response times in the event of a cyberthreat. Finally, we’ll lay a vision for continuous network security, to explore how machine-to-machine automation may deliver an auto-securing and self-healing network.
Go to www.esgjrconsultinginc.com
Toward Continuous Cybersecurity With Network AutomationKen Flott
Network security is a dynamic art, with dangers appearing as
fast as black hats can exploit vulnerabilities. While there are
basic “golden rules” which can make life difficult for the bad
guys, it remains a challenge to keep networks secure. John
Chambers, Executive Chairman of Cisco, famously said “there
are two types of companies: those that have been hacked, and
those who don’t know they have been hacked”. The question
for most organizations isn’t if they’re going to be breached, but
how quickly they can isolate and mitigate the threat.
In this paper, we’ll examine best practices for effective
cybersecurity – from both a proactive (access hardening)
and reactive (threat isolation and mitigation) perspective.
We’ll address how network automation can help minimize
cyberattacks by closing vulnerability gaps and how it can
improve incident response times in the event of a cyberthreat.
Finally, we’ll lay a vision for continuous network security, to
explore how machine-to-machine automation may deliver an
auto-securing and self-healing network.
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While there are several ways of gathering information on a potential victim, information ciphering is a commonly used method implemented by cybersecurity criminals via an activity known as 'footprinting.' Footprinting involves gathering as much information as one can about a targeted network and its assets before launching an attack. Companies today use cookies and XML hooks in order to attach themselves to the surfing routine of unsuspecting users. This type of footprinting can traverse multiple personal and business devices, as many devices now use common authentication infrastructures, which inherently allow for a single individual or business to be followed, regardless of the devices that they use. This type of footprinting, while meant to benefit the marketing efforts of legit businesses, has been exploited by cybersecurity criminals. Research footprinting and discuss methodologies that can be employed by cybersecurity experts to ensure that footprinting mechanics, such as those aforementioned, can be used legitimately by businesses, instead of being hijacked by cyber criminals looking to tail personal or business private data streams.
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Social engineering infrastructures can consist of several logical layers of communication. Some of the components within each layer may or may not include handlers. That is to say that there are certain aspects of social engineering infrastructures that are handled by manual labor, which consists of people watching and responding to the responses of others on a given social media network. Other components consists of bots, which feed responses to users in the form of both true and false information. The combination of the two component resources have led to inconsistency in social media technology infrastructures, as bots and humans compete for communication distribution space. This has led to a myriad of cybersecurity issues as bots and humans alike penetrate the information, endangering the general privacy of those participating on social media networks. Describe a strategy for dealing with such a severe issue and discuss the security methodologies you would deploy to amend the current issues surrounding social network data vulnerability.
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Cyber Training: Developing the Next Generation of Cyber AnalystsBooz Allen Hamilton
Part of the solution involves identifying and recruiting top thinkers into the field of cybersecurity, but the more immediate challenge is ensuring that cyber professionals have access to the training and information they need to keep their cyber intelligence analysis skills relevant and effective. Due to the rapidly evolving nature of the threat, education and training must be continuous, and this document focuses on strategies and best practices for developing a cyber force that maintains America’s position as a global leader in the information age.
AI IN CYBERSECURITY: THE NEW FRONTIER OF DIGITAL PROTECTIONChristopherTHyatt
Artificial Intelligence (AI) fortifies cybersecurity by dynamically identifying and neutralizing cyber threats. With machine learning algorithms, AI analyzes patterns in real-time data, swiftly detecting anomalies and potential security breaches. This proactive approach enhances the overall defense mechanism, ensuring robust protection against evolving cyber threats in the ever-changing digital landscape.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
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Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
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In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
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Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024
Narus Cyber 3.0 Position Paper
1. CYBER 3.0
POSITIONING PAPER THE PERFECT STORM: CONFLUENCE OF
HYPER-CONNECTIVITY, MOBILITY AND BIG DATA
CYBER 3.0: WHERE THE SEMANTIC
WEB AND CYBER MEET In order to stress the full weight of the meaning of Cyber
3.0, it is important to first put the state of our networked
JOHN TROBOUGH, PRESIDENT, NARUS, INC. world into perspective. We can start by stating categorically
FEBRUARY 2013 that the Internet is changing: Access, content, and
application creation and consumption are growing
The term “Cyber 3.0” has been used mostly in reference to exponentially.
the strategy described by U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary
William Lynn at an RSA conference. In his Cyber 3.0 From narrowband to broadband, from kilobits to gigabits,
strategy, Lynn stresses a five-part plan as a comprehensive from talking people to talking things, our networked world is
approach to protect critical assets. The plan involves changing forever. Today, the Internet is hyper-connecting
equipping military networks with active defenses, ensuring people who are now enjoying super-fast connectivity
civilian networks are adequately protected, and marshaling anywhere, anytime and via any device. They are always on
the nation’s technological and human resources to maintain and always on the move, roaming seamlessly from network
its status in cyberspace1. to network. Mobile platforms and applications only extend
this behavior. As people use a growing collection of devices
Cyber 3.0 technologies will be the key to enable such to stay connected (i.e., laptops, tablets, smartphones,
protection, and is achieved when the semantic Web’s televisions), they change the way they work and collaborate,
automated, continuous machine learning is applied to the way they socialize, the way they communicate, and the
cybersecurity and surveillance. way they conduct business.
Cyber 3.0 will be the foundation for a future in which Add to this the sheer enormity of digital information and
machines drive decision-making. But Cyber 3.0’s ability to devices that now connect us: Cisco estimates that by 2015,
deliver greater visibility, control and context has the amount of data crossing the Internet every five minutes
far-reaching implications in our current, hyper-connected will be equivalent to the total size of all movies ever made,
environment, where massive amounts of information move and that annual Internet traffic will reach a zettabyte
easily and quickly across people, locations, time, devices — roughly 200 times the total size of all words ever spoken
and networks. It is a world where human intervention and by humans2. On a similar note, the number of connected
intelligence alone simply can’t sift through and analyze devices will explode in the next few years, reaching an
information fast enough. Indeed, arming cybersecurity astonishing 50 billion by 20203. By this time, connected
organizations with the incisive intelligence afforded by this devices could even outnumber connected people by a ratio
machine learning means cybersecurity incidents are of 6-to-14. This interconnectedness indeed presents a level
identified and security policies are enforced before critical of productivity and convenience never before seen, but it
assets are compromised. also tempts fate: The variety and number of endpoints — so
difficult to manage and secure — invite cyber breaches, and
their hyper-connectivity guarantees the spread of cyber
incidents as well as a safe hiding place for malicious
machines and individuals engaged in illegal, dangerous or
otherwise unsavory activities.
2. Cyber is nonetheless integral to our everyday lives. Anything CYBER 3.0: THE ANSWER TO A NEW GENERATION
we do in the cyber world can be effortlessly shifted across OF CYBER CHALLENGES
people, locations, devices and time. While on one hand,
cyber is positioned to dramatically facilitate the process of Indeed, given the great velocity, volume and variety of data
knowledge discovery and sharing among people (increasing generated now, the cyber technologies that rely on manual
performance and productivity and enabling faster processes and human intervention — which worked well in
interaction), on the other, companies of all sizes must now the past — no longer suffice to address cybersecurity
secure terabytes and petabytes of data. That data enters organizations’ current and future pain points, which
and leaves enterprises at unprecedented rates, and is often correlate directly with the aforementioned confluence of
stored and accessed from a range of locations, such as from hyper-connectivity, mobility and big data. Rather,
smartphones and tablets, virtual servers, or the cloud. next-generation cyber technology that can deliver visibility,
control and context despite this confluence is the only
On top of all this, all the aforementioned endpoints have answer. This technology is achieved by applying machine
their own security needs, and the cybersecurity challenge learning to cybersecurity and surveillance, and is called
today lies in how to control, manage and secure large Cyber 3.0.
volumes of data in increasingly vulnerable and open
environments. Specifically, cybersecurity organizations In using Cyber 3.0, human intervention is largely removed
need answers to how they can: from the operational lifecycle, and processes, including
decision-making, are tackled by automation: Data is
• Ensure visibility by keeping pace with the automatically captured, contextualized and fused at an
unprecedented and unpredictable progression of new atomic granularity by smart machines, which then
applications running in their networks automatically connect devices to information (extracted
• Retain control by staying ahead of the bad guys (for a from data) and information to people, and then execute
change), who breach cybersecurity perimeters to steal end-to-end operational workflows. Workflows are executed
invaluable corporate information or harm critical assets faster than ever, and results are more accurate than ever.
• Position themselves to better define and enforce More and more facts are presented to analysts, who will be
security policies across every aspect of their network called on only to make a final decision, rather than to sift
(elements, content and users) to ensure they are aligned through massive piles of data in search of hidden or
with their mission and gain situational awareness counter-intuitive answers. And analysts are relieved from
taking part in very lengthy investigation processes to
• Understand context and slash the investigation time
understand the after-the-fact root cause.
and time-to-resolution of a security problem or cyber
incident
Unfortunately, cybersecurity organizations are impeded
from realizing any of these. This is because their current
solutions require human intervention to manually correlate
growing, disparate data and identify and manage all cyber
threats. And human beings just don’t scale.
3. In the future, semantic analysis and sentiment analysis will Clearly, these three attributes are essential to keeping
be implanted into high-powered machines to: critical assets safe from cybersecurity incidents or
breaches in security policy. However, achieving them in the
• Dissect and analyze data across disparate networks face of constantly changing data that is spread across
• Extract information across distinct dimensions within countless sources, networks and applications is no small
those networks task — and definitely out of reach for any principles or
practices that rely even partly on human interference.
• Fuse knowledge and provide contextualized and definite
Moreover, without visibility, control and context, one can
answers
never be sure what type of action to take.
• Continuously learn the dynamics of the data to ensure
that analytics and data models are promptly refined in Cyber 3.0 is not a mythical direction of what “could”
an automated fashion happen. It’s the reality we will face as the Web grows, as new
• Compound previously captured information with new technologies are put into practice, and as access to more
information to dynamically enrich models with and more devices continues to grow. The future is obvious.
discovered knowledge The question is: How will we respond?
Ultimately, cybersecurity organizations are able to better By virtue of machine learning capabilities, Cyber 3.0 is the
control their networks via situational awareness gained only approach that can rise to these challenges and deliver
through a complete understanding of network activity and the incisive intelligence required to protect our critical
user behavior. This level of understanding is achieved by assets and communities now and into the future.
integrating data from three different planes: the network
plane, the semantic plane and the user plane. The network John Trobough is president of Narus, Inc., a subsidiary of The Boeing
plane mines traditional network elements like applications Company (NYSE: BA). Based in Silicon Valley, Narus is a longtime
and protocols; the semantic plane extracts the content and cybersecurity innovator and industry pioneer, with patents awarded
and pending for its work in cyber.
relationships; and the user plane establishes information
about the users. By applying machine learning and analytics
to the dimensions extracted across these three planes,
cybersecurity organizations have the visibility, context and 1 “DoD Talks Up Plans to Deploy Cybercommandos,” Tech News World,
control required to fulfill their missions and business February 11, 2011 <http://www.technewsworld.com/story/
DoD-Talks-Up-Plans-to-Deploy-Cybercommandos-71872.html>.
objectives.
2 “The Zettabyte Era,” May 30, 2012, Cisco <http://www.cisco.com/en/
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