Artificial intelligence

It is time for research to think about security and privacy

antonio.ierano@ierano.it 02/17/2017 Editorials, Editorials in English

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.ierano@ierano.it 02/13/2017 Editorials, Editorials in English

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…

NFV network function virtualization security considerations

antonio.ierano@ierano.it 01/11/2017 AI Tech Update, Tech Update in English

I have been asked to write down a few things related to NFV and security. NFV is relatively a new thing in the IT world. It has been on the news in 2012 and since then it has followed the developing path common to the virtualization technologies. Virtualization has made dramatic improvement in the last years. It all started at first with simple virtualization platforms, of course VMware on top of our mind, but not only. The idea was to abstract HW platforms from software ones. Developing the idea, the abstraction growth covering multiple hw platforms moving also to the…

Happy new insecure 2017: my resolutions and wishlist for new year

antonio.ierano@ierano.it 01/03/2017 Editorials, Editorials in English

Here we are, a new year comes and we, as cyber security expert, will keep warning the world about the deeply insecure world we are living. And we will announce new technologies and new devastating scenarios related to new technologies. IoT and Cloud will rise their evil face while bad people will be lurking in the dark waiting to attack the innocent lamb crossing the road. But, in all of this, the most of the damage will be still done by bad designed systems, by managers that does not understand what means living in a digital world, by politicians that…

The IoT Files: Culture

antonio.ierano@ierano.it 02/29/2016 AI Tech Update, News From The World, Tech Update in English

The IoT Files: Culture In the previous IoT flies tried to outline what are, from my point of view, some key factor that have to be taken into account when talking about IoT. The last, but not the least, point I would like to put some notes is culture. Since IoT is something that will shape out way of life on many aspect, we have to convene that culture is a key element in order to positively and safely embrace it. Culture refers to billions of things, from language structure to literature, from how we share information to how…

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Antonio Ieranò Evangelist, Manager, BDM, Advisor, Writer, Speaker, Coach HOME: Via Gabriele D'Annunzio, 29, 27010 Vistarino (Pavia) Italy. Mobile phone: +39 347 9293757 E-mail: antonio.ierano@ierano.it; Twitter: @ antonioierano @thepuchiherald Web: http://ierano.it I am an IT professional Manager, BDM, marketing specialist, and tech evangelist with over 16 years of experience serving as a community liaison, subject matter expert, and high-profile trainer for key technologies and solutions. My experience includes acting as the public face of Cisco security technologies; leading pan-European technical teams in development of new Cisco security products; and serving as a key public speaker and trainer on behalf of new high-tech products. My expertise spans IT development and implementation, marketing strategy, legal issues, and budget / financial management. Specialties and Executive Expertise IT Strategy, Technical Audits, Enterprise Architecture & Applications, Technical Sales Liaison, Solution Architecture, Network Design, Architecture, & Security, Vulnerability Assessment & Management, Systems Engineering, TCP / IP, Data Privacy, Cloud Computing, Marketing Strategy, Budget Management, Consultative Sales, Social Media Marketing, High-Impact Presentations, Security and Technical Advisor: I have a strong experience and knowledge in the technology and security areas, I can provide the needed expertise to better direct technical needs, giving indication for cost effective, solid and efficient solutions. Project Management: with a solid background with project delivered with success in different areas I can provide a key support to drive customer projects to success. With a Microsoft Solution Framework background and PMI solid knowledge mixed with communication skills at any level i can lead the project group and it's stakeholders to achieve the desired goals. Business Developement and Marketing: With a deep knowledge of the extended EMEA technology market needs a focus on worldwide security I can drive business developement to a solid and reliable growth being able to relate with all the stakeholders, from production to sales and channel and, of course, customers.