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Second Interdisciplinary Workshop on Reimagining Democracy

Schneier on Security

Last month, I convened the Second Interdisciplinary Workshop on Reimagining Democracy ( IWORD 2023 ) at the Harvard Kennedy School Ash Center. Modern democracy was invented in the mid-eighteenth century, using mid-eighteenth-century technology. Next year, I hope to take the workshop out of Harvard and somewhere else.

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Hack Yourself First Workshops in Australia, Denmark and Portugal (Virtually, of Course)

Troy Hunt

I want to talk about 3 upcoming events which Scott Helme and I are going to be running our Hack Yourself First workshop at starting with this one: NDC Security Australia, 26-27 March, AU$800 This is an extra special event that we've only just decided to run. The website is up and running and you can go and register right now.

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December’s Reimagining Democracy Workshop

Schneier on Security

The modern representative democracy was the best form of government that mid-eighteenth-century technology could conceive of. Again, we have more technology and therefor more options. In December 2022, I organized a workshop to discuss these and other questions. On the other hand, technological solutionism regularly fails.

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Cybersecurity Lessons from Covid19

Adam Shostack

Josiah Dykstra and I will be speaking at the Ostrom Workshop Cyber Public Health Working Group, tomorrow, Thursday the 28th at 3 Eastern. Human, process, and technological systems in 2024 are unprepared for pandemic-scale digital threats but timely and effective responses are possible by incorporating lessons from COVID-19.

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News alert: Security Risk Advisors offers free workshop to help select optimal OT security tools

The Last Watchdog

May 8, 2024, CyberNewsWire — Security Risk Advisors (SRA) announces the launch of their OT/XIoT Detection Selection Workshop, a complimentary offering designed to assist organizations in selecting the most suitable operational technology (OT) and Extended Internet of Things (XIoT) security tools for their unique environments.

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NIST CSF 2.0 Workshop emphasizes global appeal, metrics and assessment

CSO Magazine

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) hosted its first workshop yesterday on the Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.0, an update to the CSF 1.1 released in 2018, which was itself an update to the original CSF released in 2014.

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10 Personal Finance Lessons for Technology Professionals

Troy Hunt

So here it is - 10 Personal Financial Lessons for Technology Professionals. For example, the ICT industry (Information, Communication, Technology) was the 5th highest paying with an average salary of $104,874 (dollars are Aussie, take off about 30% for USD). Intro: This Industry Rocks! Banking is below that. Medical even lower.