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The Future of Cyber-security

WILL SOCIETY BE ABLE TO TRUST TECHNOLOGY?

The Cyber “Black-Swan”

“The cyber 9/11 Apocalypse” – we must prevent and be prepared

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The Cyber “Black-Swan”

“The cyber 9/11 Apocalypse” – we must prevent and be prepared

• But it is not a black swan!

Humans, Machines and Trust

Tools Machines Control Systems Autonomous Systems Operate Supervise “Let it go!”

What does it mean to trust a machine?

• Availability: It will do what I told it to do, when I told it

to do so.

• Integrity: The result will be as I expect it to be: It will do
• nly what I told it to do, and it’ll never lie to me.
• Privacy: It is not going to tell it to anyone else

If I’m often pre-occupied with those questions- we have a trust issue

So what is the industry doing about it?

Prevent Detect Mitigate

• From Reactive, to Proactive and Predictive
• From signature-based detection to pattern, ML and

anomaly detection

• From researchers in silos, to intelligence sharing and big-

data

The state of the cyber-security industry

Source: Juniper Research

The state of the cyber-security industry

The state of the cyber-security industry

On frogs and swans

The long-term price of loss of trust

“The No. 1 reason why people say they are unlikely to buy an autonomous vehicle is that they don't feel that they're safe… many people worry they might be vulnerable to cyberattacks… 64 percent of consumers would not purchase an automated vehicle, and 57 percent wouldn't even consider riding one…The worst case scenario is that a hacker will be able to drive someone off the road.“ Consulting firm Altman Vilandrie 55 percent of the corporate risk managers surveyed view cybersecurity as the biggest problem with driverless vehicles. Munich Re

The Cyber-Utopia: “Make Cyber-security small again”

Safe-mode Voting Self-Healing

The Cyber-Utopia: Some first steps

• Cyber and non-cyber resilience:
• Can conflict (hot backups)
• Can be synergetic (Signal fingerprinting)

Active-Active

Key takeaways

• While the “Cyber Armageddon” of collapsing critical infrastructures is

realistically possible, it’s not a black swan.

• Trust in technology is key for adoption of autonomous systems.
• While investment in cyber-security keeps growing, cyber breaches around the

world are a daily reality.

• Slowly eroding trust in computers may prohibit adoption of advanced

technologies – preventing immense benefits in capital and human lives

• “make cyber-security small again” - new (and some old) strategies focused on

resilience may be the key.

Thank you!