In this episode of Cyber Security Inside, Tom and Camille continue their talk with cybersecurity expert, Managing Director at Allen and Company, and former Congressman and undercover CIA officer, Will Hurd. In Part 1, the conversation centered around AI, but this time around you’ll hear more about cybersecurity and the international threats out there, plus:
• Digital infrastructure
• The digital divide
• IOT
• Spoof robocalls
...and more. Check it out!
P.S. Go back and check out Part 1 if you haven’t heard it yet!
Here are some key take-aways:
• Our infrastructure plans have to include more than bridges and roads – they need to include a digital infrastructure.
• There are three elements to the digital divide: device, connectivity, and the knowledge of how to use the device once it’s connected.
• Studies show that nearly a third of our country does not have access to high-speed internet.
• Because we live in such a connected world, there’s an increased area for attack.
• Security needs to be baked into IOT and it’s not.
• We can’t only focus on what’s happened in the past. We have to anticipate the cybersecurity threats of the future.
Some interesting quotes from today’s episode:
“And for the last six years, I was saying that infrastructure had to be more than just bridges, roads, locks, and dams. You need a digital infrastructure. The coronavirus pandemic made us realize that.”
“You always have a sensor. And then there's always a potential defeat for that sensor. So how do you defeat the defeat?”
“The ability to corrupt the data, to allow somebody to do something. I think that's an area that, when you start seeing our adversaries get more sophisticated, we're going to have to be mindful of.”
“We know that the IOT environment we're already in is probably more corruptible than our digital infrastructure. We didn't learn the lessons from the development of the internet to bake in security. We're not doing that in IOT, which is sad. And so, in that increasingly connected world, there's more points of failure and more points of attack for attackers to get information.”
“But we have to stop thinking about the previous wars and we’ve got to be prepared for the wars of the future.”
“So, this notion of supply chain security is real. It's complicated. It's hard.”
“In this day and age, policy is never going to be able to keep up with the speed of innovation. So, when you're developing that widget, protecting security and protecting civil liberties should be at the forefront of any developer, any entrepreneur's mind when they're building their new service…at some point, if you get large enough and you're having an impact on society, people are going to be asking those questions. So, bake it in at the very beginning.”