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We’ve spent billions defending software. It’s time to protect execution
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We’ve spent billions defending software. It’s time to protect execution
Cybersecurity has a fundamental blind spot. We spend enormous sums protecting software while the processor underneath it blindly executes whatever instructions it receives. That has to change. For the billions of embedded systems running cars, medical devices, industrial controllers, network equipment, and critical infrastructure, security needs an independent layer that can watch processors execute instructions. The stakes are already visible.
Council Post: Venture Capitalists Are Not The Startup Team’s Friend
Jothy Rosenberg, Ph.D. Founder & Chairman, Dover Microsystems, Inc. Founder, The Who Says I Can't Foundation. This article, inspired by my recent book called Tech Startup Toolkit: How to Launch Strong and Exit Big, is about the relationship between startup founders and the venture capital investors who fund their companies. To be successful in their job, by necessity, VCs are friendly and personable.
Council Post: Getting A Child Amputee Running
Jothy Rosenberg, Ph.D. Founder & Chairman, Dover Microsystems, Inc. Founder, The Who Says I Can't Foundation. Enabling a child who is physically disabled to participate in a sport they love is the quickest way to restore their damaged self-esteem. For a child who has either lost a leg or who was born without one, running may be the key to such restoration.
Council Post: Why Are We Not Winning The Cybersecurity War?
Jothy Rosenberg, Ph.D. Founder & Chairman, Dover Microsystems, Inc. Founder, The Who Says I Can't Foundation. Something is very wrong with our approach to cybersecurity. We are not winning the war. The bad guys keep getting through with . Why is this happening? For one thing, the war is asymmetric. Their malware takes just a small amount of code, but our defense systems have grown to be millions of lines of code.
Tech Startup Toolkit: How to launch strong and exit big
Welcome to "Executive Library," a series presenting books written by Forbes Councils experts on business topics. Tech Startup Toolkit: How to launch strong and exit big by Jothy Rosenberg, Forbes Technology Council Manning July 15, 2024 In Tech Startup Toolkit, Forbes Technology Council member Jothy Rosenberg dishes out essential advice for anyone aspiring to start or run their own technology company.
Council Post: Flipping The Script On Startup Success
Jothy Rosenberg, Ph.D. Founder & Chairman, Dover Microsystems, Inc. Founder, The Who Says I Can't Foundation. Shikhar Ghosh says 7.5 out of 10 venture-backed startups fail. Why do so many startups fail? It’s because they run out of money, but why do they run out of money? My experience of founding and running nine startups over the course of 35 years guided me to five things that every startup founder needs to focus on and get right, right away.
Council Post: Rotationplasty: Turning Disability Into Ability For Young Cancer Patients
Jothy Rosenberg, Ph.D. Founder & Chairman, Dover Microsystems, Inc. Founder, The Who Says I Can't Foundation. Osteosarcoma is rare, yet it’s the most common form of bone cancer among children. It is an aggressive cancer, and removal of the diseased bone must be done quickly.
Council Post: AI Is A Major Target For Cyberattackers—It Can And Must Be Protected
Jothy Rosenberg, Ph.D. Founder & Chairman, Dover Microsystems, Inc. Founder, The Who Says I Can't Foundation. Artificial intelligence (AI) is a branch of computer science that develops intelligent machines that mimic human intelligence. This does not mean they mimic the human brain; only that they achieve some of the results that the human brain achieves. In their ability to make inferences from very large datasets, however, they far exceed human capacity.
Council Post: Tech Startups Need A Tech CEO
Jothy Rosenberg, Ph.D. Founder & Chairman, Dover Microsystems, Inc. Founder, The Who Says I Can't Foundation. A tech startup—where tech is short for deep (or hard or tough) technology—is one that is solving a big problem for a (hopefully) big market with a solution based on either hardware, software or both, whose technology involves challenges to build and is probably patentable. Many investors specifically favor deep tech because they can clear out a defensible market space unique to them.
Council Post: Emancipating Amputees With Microprocessor Controlled Prosthetics
Jothy Rosenberg, Ph.D. Founder & Chairman, Dover Microsystems, Inc. Founder, The Who Says I Can't Foundation. I have been an above-knee amputee for over 50 years. For the first 30 years, my prosthesis was balsa wood with a simple mechanical knee. I fell a lot, could only walk at one fixed speed, would sweat through a shirt going from car to plane, walked downstairs or the ramp to the plane in abject fear of falling and had the classic limping gait of an amputee.
Council Post: Cybersecurity Defense-In-Depth From Compartmentalization
Jothy Rosenberg, Ph.D. Founder & Chairman, Dover Microsystems, Inc. Founder, The Who Says I Can't Foundation. Cybersecurity discussions, whether in blogs, conferences, forums or elsewhere, tend to focus on concepts like anomaly detection, use of AI in cyber defense, security hygiene, phishing or ransomware. The cybersecurity technology known as compartmentalization has never come up when I have been within earshot.
Council Post: Where Does Entrepreneurial Grit Come From?
Jothy Rosenberg, Ph.D. Founder & Chairman, Dover Microsystems, Inc. Founder, The Who Says I Can't Foundation. I have founded and/or run nine high-tech startups in 35 years through the Great Recession, the 2020 pandemic and countless self-inflicted challenges. I started out with a Ph.D. in computer science, but while a professor at Duke, working on a contract for NASA, I suddenly got the itch to start a company based on the work we were doing to create a massively parallel supercomputer.
Council Post: Fair Insurance For Amputees
Jothy Rosenberg, PhD. Founder & Chairman, Dover Microsystems, Inc. Founder, The Who Says I Can't Foundation. Losing a leg due to injury, illness or congenital condition is a devastating experience that has a profound impact on a person’s life, requiring significant physical and emotional adjustment. I know of what I speak since I lost my right leg above the knee 50 years ago when I was 16. Out of the U.S. population of 332 million, are amputees. Of those, 65% are leg amputees.
Council Post: The Dirty 'Big' Secret Of Cybersecurity
Jothy Rosenberg, PhD. Founder & Chairman, Dover Microsystems, Inc. | Founder, The Who Says I Can't Foundation. I drive a standard, current model Kia—nothing fancy or expensive. Modern cars, including mine, are quite good at protecting themselves and the people in them from most of the standard threats you might encounter while driving. My Kia has run-flat tires, which, if you get a puncture in one of your tires, can safely drive for a while to get to a tire store.
The cybersecurity stack
This 28-page white paper describes how to secure embedded systems using a defence-in-depth approach. The stack approach to cybersecurity is analogous to the OSI seven-layer model of communications and it describes security in terms of six layers; four in software, two in hardware. The threats and patterns of attack are described for each layer and a defense described based around the company's CoreGuard intellectual property.
Internet of Things In Healthcare – What to Expect in 2018? - Security Boulevard
We are heading into an era which embraces the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial Intelligence (AI), and machine learning (MI) that have immensely overturned the tech world. With particular reference to IoT, it has profoundly impacted global commerce and lifestyle. If this existing pace remains consistent, then it wouldn’t be onerous to predict the trends that we might witness in the upcoming year.
Recap: The Biggest Data Breaches of 2017 - Security Boulevard
From a Republican National Committee contractor exposing voting data on nearly 200 million people to Equifax revealing a breach impacting over 143 million people – it’s safe to say that when it comes to data breaches, 2017 has kept us on our toes. So much so that more data was lost or stolen in the first half of 2017 (1.9 billion records) than in the entire of 2016 (1.37 billion) according to research released earlier this year.
Backdoors Found in Three More WordPress Plug-ins - Security Boulevard
In what is becoming an increasingly common type of software supply chain attack, three more WordPress plug-ins that recently changed ownership got backdoored by their new owners. What’s worse is that the malicious code went undetected for months. The rogue plug-ins are called Duplicate Page and Post, No Follow All External Links and WP No External Links and they all have been removed from the official WordPress plug-in repository over the past couple of weeks.
Attackers Exploit Android Application Package Flaw to Hide Malware - Security Boulevard
Attackers have started to exploit a vulnerability patched this month in Android that enables the bundling of malware with Android application files (APKs) and evading antivirus products. The vulnerability, known as Janus and identified as CVE-2017-13156, was privately reported to Google in July by researchers from mobile security firm GuardSquare. Google included a patch for it in its December Android security bulletin, after sharing it in advance with device manufacturers.
Public Cloud: Security Strained by Complexity - Security Boulevard
Cloud computing is the single most important technology trend of the last 15 years, having a profound effect on many parts of IT. And as we enter 2018, cloud will emerge as a mature technology. In its report, “Cloud Computing Accelerates Enterprise Transformation Everywhere,” Forrester predicted that 2018 will be the year that more than 50 percent of all enterprises will be using public cloud for at least some aspect of their businesses.
DevSecOps: 2018 is the Year Quality and Security Finally Merge - Security Boulevard
A flaw is a flaw is a flaw. And as DevSecOps practices take root in an enterprise, don’t be surprised when software engineering teams are finally able to let this concept bear fruit in a meaningful way—namely through the practical merger between quality assurance and security. Philosophically, the idea that security is at least an offshoot—if not a subset—of quality assurance is nothing new.
Global Undersea Cables Vulnerable to Russia's Special Ops - Security Boulevard
British defense officials have added their voice to those of others highlighting the threat posed by the capabilities of the Russian military and intelligence entities to the soft underside of the global telecom infrastructure: undersea cables. Air Chief Marshal Sir Stuart Peach, chief of defense staff in the U.K., highlighted how the need to protect the undersea infrastructure is a priority, the BBC reported.
Videos from Ethereum-focused Empire Hacking - Security Boulevard
On December 12, over 150 attendees learned how to write and hack secure smart contracts at the final Empire Hacking meetup of 2017. Thank you to everyone who came, to our superb speakers, and to Datadog for hosting this meetup at their office. We believe strongly that the community should share what knowledge it can. That’s why we’re posting these recordings from the event. We hope you find them useful.
China's Economic Espionage via the Non-Attributable Hand - Security Boulevard
As we come to the end of the tumultuous 2017, the award for sleight of hand perhaps should go to China and its intelligence apparatus, the Ministry for State Security (MSS) and People’s Liberation Army (PLA), as they continue to harvest intellectual property (IP) and personal data with almost total impunity. The question every company should be asking themselves: Do I have a product that might be useful to the populous of China? Do I have a Chinese competitor?
Yet Another WordPress Extension Changes Owner and Gets Backdoored - Security Boulevard
A WordPress plug-in called Captcha with more than 300,000 active installations contained a backdoor that allowed its maintainer to gain unauthorized administrative access to other people’s websites. The plug-in was apparently backdoored after its previous developer sold it to unspecified new owners in September. This is not the first time a popular piece of software has been used maliciously after a change in ownership and highlights a larger problem with the software supply chain.
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