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Cyber-Kinetic Security
Defeating 21st Century Pirates: the Maritime Cyberattacks
The maritime industry faces a not-so-distant future when ships will be completely autonomous, using navigation data that they receive to plot their own courses with only minimal input from shoreside control centers. The efficiencies this could bring are massive, but…
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Post-Quantum, PQC, Quantum Security
Brassard–Høyer–Tapp (BHT) Quantum Collision Algorithm and Post-Quantum Security
The Brassard–Høyer–Tapp (BHT) algorithm is a quantum algorithm discovered in 1997 that finds collisions in hash functions faster than classical methods. In cryptography, a collision means finding two different inputs that produce the same hash output, undermining the hash’s collision…
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AI Security
Adaptive Attacks Against ML Detection: The Test Nobody Ran
Skylight broke Cylance in 2019 without computing a single gradient. The adaptive attack is an evaluation standard the detection market has never adopted, and the language model now reading your alert queue has never faced one.
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Leadership
Those with Interpersonal Skills Have Least to Worry About the AI
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming ever more important, and not just in automating repetitive, manual labor jobs. Increasingly, it also enters the realm of highly trained knowledge workers. New. AI-driven world will require different skills. Systems like IBM Watson augment…
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5G Security
Regulating the Security of the Internet of Things (IoT) in a 5G World
In one of those strange inversions of reason, The Internet of Things (IoT) arguably began before the Internet itself. In 1980, a thirsty graduate in Carnegie Mellon University’s computer science department, David Nichols, eventually grew tired of hiking to the…
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Industry
The Argument Against Quantum Computers
And now for something different from our regular programming. Quanta Magazine just published an interesting article, “The Argument Against Quantum Computers,” by Katia Moskvitch. The article discusses Gil Kalai’s skepticism about the feasibility of quantum computers. Kalai, a mathematician, argues…
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Society 5.0
The Future of Privacy in our Smart Living – Part 2
In a world where the population is increasing and resources are finite, we need to find smarter ways of living together. Smart technologies hold the key to making this happen but we need to proceed with caution and build a…
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Leadership
Driving Change as Assimilators in the Age of AI
AI leaders must adapt to the changing culture as young workers enter the job market with expectations strikingly different from the ones that leaders traditionally have encountered. These changes within their own business culture are not, though, the only culture…
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Cyber-Kinetic Security
Tangible Threat of Cyber-Kinetic Attacks
Connecting physical objects and processes to the cyber world offers us capabilities that exponentially exceed the expectations of science fiction writers and futurists of past generations. But it also introduces disquieting possibilities. Those possibilities reach beyond cyberspace to threaten the…
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Leadership
AI Is Neither the End of Civilization nor the Beginning of Nirvana
Where AI, robots, IoT and the so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution are taking us, and how we should prepare for it are some of the hottest topics being discussed today. Perhaps the most striking thing about these discussions is how different…
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Society 5.0
AI’s Coming Impact on the Economy
Growing reliance on AI will not likely result in any of the three most common views of how AI will affect our future. Each view is founded on assumptions that fail to consider all the realities of AI. That leaves…
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Leadership
AI and The Great Workforce Skill Set Shift
Whether AI and the technologies it enables will reach their full potential depends on the workforce that will work alongside them. Yet the skills that that workforce needs to do this are in short supply. Rather than debating what to…
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Society 5.0
Three Views of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Future
If you’ve read the many predictions about the future of AI, you’ve likely found them to be wildly different. They range from AI spelling doom for humanity, to AI ushering in Golden Age of peace, harmony and culture, to AI…
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AI Security
AI Uses Today – Far More Than You Might Think
Ask people on the street how much AI uses today affect their lives, and most would probably answer that it doesn’t affect them right now. Some might say that it’s pure science fiction. Others might say that it may affect…
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Society 5.0
The Future of Privacy in our Smart Living
It is inevitable and important that human society moves towards a smarter way of living. We must use intelligent ways to improve our infrastructure and its dependencies. To do this we have to share our personal information, from direct to…
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