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Cybersecurity for the Public Interest

Schneier on Security

It's an impassioned debate, acrimonious at times, but there are real technologies that can be brought to bear on the problem: key-escrow technologies, code obfuscation technologies, and backdoors with different properties. Tim Berners-Lee has called them "philosophical engineers." Public-interest technology isn't new.

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Cybersecurity for the Public Interest

Schneier on Security

It's an impassioned debate, acrimonious at times, but there are real technologies that can be brought to bear on the problem: key-escrow technologies, code obfuscation technologies, and backdoors with different properties. Tim Berners-Lee has called them "philosophical engineers." Public-interest technology isn't new.

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MY TAKE: ‘IOWN’ makes the business case for fostering diversity, respecting individual privacy

The Last Watchdog

Related: Using ‘Big Data’ to improve health and well-being But there’s yet another towering technology mountain to climb: we must also overcome the limitations of Moore’s Law. scientists are working on basic research to develop optical technology that can overcome current challenges.

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UK Cybersecurity Weekly News Roundup – 9 March 2025

Security Boulevard

Microsoft Engineer's Transition to Cybersecurity Ankit Masrani, a 36-year-old software engineer, successfully transitioned into a cybersecurity role at Microsoft. With a background in IT and a Master's degree in computer science, Masrani secured an internship and later a full-time position at AWS, focusing on data and network security.

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SHARED INTEL Q&A: Everything the Cisco-Splunk merger tells us about the rise of SIEMs

The Last Watchdog

Nayyar: Many security vendors want a piece of the SIEM market, even if their technology isn’t necessarily purpose-built. Gurucul pioneered UEBA technology a decade ago – in fact our company was built around this capability. Can you frame how legacy security tools (NGFW, WAF, web gateways, SIEM, SOAR, UEBA, XDR, VM, IAM, etc.)

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RSAC Fireside Chat: Bedrock Security introduces advanced approach to “commoditize” data discovery

The Last Watchdog

At RSAC 2024 , I visited with Pranava Adduri , co-founder and CEO of Bedrock Security which has just rolled out its AI Reasoning (AIR) Engine to help solve this problem in a bold new way. For instance, Amazon’s AWS Macie service charges around $1,000 per terabyte for data discovery, or $1 million per petabyte, Adduri told me.

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NEWS ANALYSIS Q&A: Striving for contextual understanding as digital transformation plays out

The Last Watchdog

Perhaps the biggest change lies in the way the rules are generated and maintained, where once a pool of highly skilled and experienced cybersecurity analysts iterated and codified actions as lovingly-maintained rules, today big data systems power machine learning systems to train complex classifiers and models.