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The IoT Files: the call for 5G

I have been recently interviewed on 5G issues and this made me realize how confusing is the knowledge and understanding about 5G. Most of the time, when I heard on mainstream media comment about 5G I find form one side apologetic wonders of how this or that vendor with 5G can solve all human problems, form the other side fears related strictly to the fact that 5G today means Chinese or European vendors, for the first time in years the USA is not leading technologically a strategic sector. even lesser I heard about the link between 5G and IoT and what this means. Generally speaking, most of the discussions on IoT are focused…

Please help me to share for my phishing friend sake

ok, do you know those beautiful phishing emails claiming a bad guy hacked your email and take pictures or videos of you doing bad stuff? I receive tons on my personal accounts, and usually, I answer to them asking to share the videos so I can publish on my socials as well and become famous, rotfl, alas the bad guys never react…. (I know I am so childish) so let me share with you last one: Analyzing the headers I saw my friends sent the email from a chinese address (how nice to be renown from such a distant place)…

Happy Holidays

Where have we been? For quite a long time I have not written anything here and I am truly sorry, but it is holiday seasons so let me wish you all a Merry Christmas, and a wonderful New Year. merry christmas and happy new year in your language Related articles Wavves – “Christmas Time Is Here” (Vince Guaraldi Cover) LED it glow! Ho-Ho-Homes lit up for Christmas, in pictures NAN Chapel holds maiden Christmas Carol 23 spectacular Christmas gift ideas for travellers These are the most in demand Christmas toys from the last 30 years (34 Photos) 5 Awesome Charities…

Privacy Shield just born already dead

The new move coming from the other side of the Ocean (and yes I mean the USA) is aligned with Mr. Trump approach to international agreements. After the Paris climate agreement, Donald Trump’s presidency is shining again in its confrontation with old Europe. The target now is the Privacy Shield Agreement, the agreement that has been reached between the USA and EU in order to protect the privacy of EU citizens whose data are collected by the USA company. It should not comes out as a surprise, historically the two sides of the ocean have had a deep different approach…

hit by “wannacry” (may be you deserve it) …

Guys Again a ransomware outbreak on the news. May I say I am not surprised at all? And may I say that the media coverage has been ridiculous and instead of presenting the event as something that should highlight the incompetent behaviour of managers targeted by this issue they claims about “cyberattack” which is a completely different thing. And yet people asking why? how come? how this can be possible? again really? We know that CyberSecurity is always a side though from most of the management no matter where. The proof, beside the claims from CEO, IT Managers and generally speaking CxO,…

It is time for research to think about security and privacy

We usually talk about cyber security and privacy related to the world of industry and personal, but today I would make some points related to research in universities. how much security aware are universities? This is an interesting topics, looking at the statistics on cyber security attacks I would say security and privacy awareness is not at the first point in their needs. So bad … well first of all let’s make a little distinction: engineering vs the rest it is out of doubt that engineering universities and research are more cyber security savvy than the rest. Some of them…

Dear CISO, please talk about business with your board, not technicality.

Antonio Ieranò CSO, Cyber Security Architect, technical evangelist, consultant, writer, journalist and trainer Dear CISO and Board I think we should always consider our job as a part of the business. We finally started to consider cyber security and data protection as a serious issue but now the question is how we evaluate a risk in our analysis and business plans… Current documentations and reports, for risk analysis, presented to most of the boards use just a flag (High, medium, low risk) but does not seems to specify any metric. Without metric it is hard to make sound evaluation and…

GDPR and the technology market

Question: will the new privacy policies and laws impact the technology market? This is an interesting question to ask ourselves; whether we are consumer of the technology market or technology vendors the impact of the new technologies (from cloud to IoT, from industry 4.0 to big data just to name the most acknowledged from a marketing point of view) privacy regulations can affect heavily our behaviours and the market. so let try to understand what could be the implications of this new focus on privacy and data protection. First of all we should try to understand what we are talking…

Why IT companies are so concerned by latest (and future) USA administration moves.

Latest USA administration moves are rising a lot of concerns towards the IT community, and a lot of concerns worldwide. There are, of course, different sentiments related to political beliefs, ethics and moral considerations that should be considered. I will not enter here in the political, ethical and moral arena to present my personal point of view on the specific subject but I would like make some considerations on the IT sector reactions to what is happening. It is an easy prediction that the future economic outlook will be impacted by USA administration approach and actions, and this can cause…

Happy Chinese new Year -新年快乐

Embed from Getty Images To all my chinese friends and colleagues I send my best wishes for prosperous and healthy new year. Enjoy the spring festival!               我所有的中国朋友和同事我送上我的祝福的繁荣和健康的新的一年。 Related articles Chinese people will make 3 billion trips for the Lunar New Year this month (mashable.com) Millions attempt the trip home for China’s Lunar New Year festival (japantimes.co.jp) Chinese man cycles 300 miles in wrong direction to return home for New Year (telegraph.co.uk) Related posts: No related posts.

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