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[This post is written as an informal part of a university module]
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\r\nSpeaker: Roy Isbell
\r\nArea: Digital security
Depending on your point of view, you can probably claim the company you\r\nstarted was successful if it is eventually bought out by a global giant, such\r\nas Symantec. Roy certainly had this air of success about him as he told us\r\nabout the route he'd taken to get where he is today. But he didn't dwell on\r\nhis life story for the entire hour as we half expected. Instead he gave a\r\nthought provoking presentation about digital security issues, from their\r\norigins in the days when losing your data was the biggest concern, to modern\r\nday crackers, malware and botnets.
\r\nHe emphasised how much of a profitable growth industry digital security is,\r\nfrom both the point of view of those trying to breach the security, and those\r\ntrying to prevent the breaches. Roy mentioned that the UK government has\r\nrecently allocated £8 million to cyber security but a quick search* yielded\r\nnothing to back this particular claim up... Instead I found articles from as\r\nrecently as this afternoon about the £1 billion that will be spent on this\r\nissue, as well as quite a few statistics that reinforce\r\neverything else Roy had to say about the activity and effectiveness of\r\nbotnets.
\r\nSo although I'd heard of most, if not all, of the buzzwords that came out of\r\nRoy's presentation, I'd never really thought about them. That's not entirely\r\ntrue. I use free anti-virus software and common sense when I'm browsing.\r\nGoodness knows data security was hammered into all the new Google interns on\r\nthe day they handed over our shiny new MacBooks. But when you log into your\r\nInternet banking from your own laptop, what could possibly go wrong? How can\r\nthis textbook company you've never used before, that you're putting your card\r\ndetails into right now, possibly not be legitimate? Why would a stranger in\r\nRussia be interested in logging my keystrokes? It's one of those... It'll\r\nnever happen to me situations.
\r\nI paid attention though, because although I've never really built a web\r\napplication big (powerful, used, important) enough to warrant anything more\r\nthan sanitising database entries before, I will be doing this year. So I\r\nshould probably get wise to this network security stuff.
\r\n*A search of thirty seconds or less being all the multi-tasking, attention-deficit 'Internet generation' of today are capable of.
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