Emerging Tech Security
AI security, cyber-kinetic security, 5G and mIoT security, blockchain and crypto security, and emerging technology risk domains adjacent to quantum.
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AI Security
AI-Exacerbated Disinformation and Cyber Threats to Democracy
Recent events have confirmed that the cyber realm can be used to disrupt democracies as surely as it can destabilize dictatorships. Weaponization of information and malicious dissemination through social media pushes citizens into polarized echo chambers and pull at the…
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Society 5.0
Importance of Privacy for Smart Cities and IoT
From The Jetsons to Blade Runner, to Back to the Future, to A.I. to The 5th Element, popular culture has long been fascinated by what the future would look like for ordinary people. In these films and countless others, humans…
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Crypto Security
Gleaming Wisdom from the Strange $170M BitGrail Hack
Around $170M worth of cryptocurrency was allegedly stolen from an obscure Italian crypto exchange called BitGrail in 2018; it’s still unclear exactly how or by whom. Just weeks after Japanese crypto exchange Coincheck was hacked – an event dubbed “the…
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Society 5.0
Technology Trends for 2019 – More Amazing Than Flying Cars
Technologies that could change the world have been a popular topic for the past half century. True, the predictions that everyone would drive flying cars have not materialized, but what has materialized would astound those who offered such predictions 50…
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Cyber-Kinetic Security
Cyber-Kinetic Risk – Unintended Consequence of IoT in a 5G World
Getting smart about security in smart systems Smart used to be something we called people or pets. It wasn’t a term one would use to describe one’s hairbrush. That is changing, of course, in an era of accelerating digital transformation.…
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AI Security
AI: The Shifting Battlefield in the Cyber Arms Race
Cybersecurity strategies need to change in order to address the new issues that Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) bring into the equation. Although those issues have not yet reached crisis stage, signs are clear that they will need…
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Cyber-Kinetic Security
Growing Cyber-Kinetic Threats to Railway Systems
Cybersecuring railway systems from potential attackers must become paramount in the digitization that those systems currently undergo. Their cybersecurity is too closely interlinked with the railway safety to leave the door open to disruption. To make matters worse, they are…
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5G Security
5G Making It More Important for Governments to Lead IoT Security
The human brain is programmed to keep us safe and secure. Yes, we are separated from the rest of the animal kingdom by our advanced capacities of sense-making and decision-making, but at the core of our grey matter remains some…
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Cyber-Kinetic Security
Intentional Electromagnetic Interference (IEMI) IoT Threat
As IoT adoption continues to proliferate, manufactures and adopters are increasingly aware of cybersecurity risks to IoT. Yet, even among the IoT security professionals, one significant potential remote attack vector is often overlooked: intentional electromagnetic interference (IEMI). Electromagnetic interference (EMI)…
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Society 5.0
Innovation in Canada – What’s Not Working and What Is
Canada’s rankings in innovation has lagged that of other peer nations for decades despite government efforts to address this issue. Considering its success in developing research programs at its universities, its mediocre rankings overall in technology development is disappointing. Those…
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Cyber-Kinetic Security
Canadian Critical Infrastructure Cyber Protection
Targeted cyberattacks against critical infrastructure (CI) are increasing on a global scale. Critical systems are rapidly being connected to the internet, affording attackers opportunities to target virtual systems that operate and monitor physical structures and physical processes through various modes…
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Society 5.0
The Future of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
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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Post-Quantum, PQC, Quantum Security
The Challenge of IT and OT Asset Discovery
Every CISO understands the simple truth: you can’t protect what you don’t know you have. A comprehensive inventory of IT and OT assets - from servers and laptops to industrial controllers and IoT sensors - is the foundation of effective…
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Cyber-Kinetic Security
Stuxnet: The Father of Cyber-Kinetic Weapons
While Stuxnet is gone, the world now knows what can be accomplished through cyber-kinetic attacks. As we approach the 10th anniversary of when Stuxnet was (likely) deployed, it is worthwhile to examine the effect it still has on our world.…
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Cyber-Kinetic Security
Growing Cyber-Kinetic Vulnerabilities of Railway Systems
In their growing efforts to increase efficiencies through digitization and automation, railways are becoming increasingly vulnerable to cyber-kinetic attacks as they move away from strictly mechanical systems and bespoke standalone systems to digital, open-platform, standardized equipment built using Commercial Off…
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