Internet Safety as Educationally Mandatory I recently acquired my “New Driver” License in British Columbia. Getting this license required more work than I originally anticipated. I needed to read a book about driving, get lessons from my neighbour, have a practice test, and convince my adjudicator I was fit to be driving on the roads […]
Expert’s Corner with Faiz Abdulla: #PSV2015 In anticipation of the 16th Annual Privacy & Security Conference, Reboot is excited to present “Expert’s Corner”, a series of blog posts featuring outstanding privacy & security leaders and professionals who will be speaking at the conference in February. Read on for a glimpse of what the Privacy & […]
Avoid the Click-Wrap Trap There is always talk about the potential and actual consequences of new, emerging technologies. In fact, it usually forms the basis of the discussion of these new technologies: – “can you believe how much cheaper/easier/faster things are going to be?”, or “don’t you think things will be more invasive/less secure/harder to […]
2015 Predictions: The Year of Alternatives For the past few years, I have actively spent time to think about what technology trends will have the biggest impact in the coming one to three years. At the beginning of 2014, I spoke about the Maker Movement, the rise of tech in healthcare, autonomous cars, additive manufacturing […]
Intrusion Detection for Things The concept of Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) was introduced in 1987 by Dr. Dorothy Denning in a paper titled “An Intrusion-Detection Model.” The paper describes systems that “aim to detect a wide range of security violations ranging from attempted break-ins by outsiders to system penetrations and abuses by insiders.” From the […]
