Today, Tuesday July 17 2018, City & State NY presents the Protecting New York Summit at Baruch College in NYC. Industry executives, public sector leaders and academics will have the opportunity to share ideas about New York’s security strategy — from elections to community policing — and the tools needed to be recognized as a national leader in homeland security and emergency management. The event will be webcast live on the Internet Society Livestream Channel.
On Wednesday October 12 2016 BrightTALK presents a webinar panel Security vs. Privacy – Can We Have Both?. Moderator: Bob Carver, Cybersecurity Guru at Verizon Wireless. Panelists: Dr. Ann Cavoukian, International Privacy Expert, Professor – Ryerson University – Toronto; Scott Schober, Cybersecurity Expert and Author of “Hacked Again“; Dan Lohrmann, Chief Strategist & Chief Security Officer at Security Mentor, Inc. The panel is available as a free webcast.
Today Wednesday January 20 2016 at 6:30pm the New York Linux Users Group (NYLUG) will host Let’s Encrypt: A Free, Automated, and Open CA at Civic Hall NYC. Let’s Encrypt (letsencrypt.org) is new free, automated, and open certificate authority created in order to help Web security and privacy to take a big step forward by adopting encryption via TLS for all traffic. This presentation will cover how Let’s Encrypt works and why it works the way it does. The event will be webcast live via the Internet Society Livestream Channel.
Today Monday 14 December 2015 from Noon-2pm EST (17:00-19:00 UTC) the Global Knowledge Partnership Foundation, the Public Interest Registry (PIR) and the Internet Policy Forum of the Washington DC Chapter of the Internet Society (ISOC-DC) present the first event in a 3 event series of the Pathfinder Initiative about Building Internet Capacity for Non-Profits and NGOs. This kick-off event will focus on Internet Security. Speakers: Dr. Katherine Albrecht – Startmail; Courtney Radsch – The Committee to Protect Journalists; Christian Dawson – Internet Infrastructure Coalition. The event will be webcast live via the Internet Society Livestream Channel
On January 13, 2014 the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University presented a talk – The Great Firewall Inverts – saying:
The world is witnessing a massive expansion of Chinese telecommunications reach and influence, powered entirely by users choosing to participate in it. In Usage of the mobile messaging app WeChat (微信 Weixin), for example, has skyrocketed not only inside China, but outside, as well. Due to these systems being built upon proprietary protocols and software, their inner workings are largely opaque and mostly insecure. (WeChat has full permission to activate microphones and cameras, track GPS, access user contacts and photos, and copy all of this data at any time to their servers.)
In this talk, Nathan Freitas — Berkman Fellow, director of technology strategy and training at the Tibet Action Institute. and leader of the Guardian Project — questions the risks to privacy and security foreign users engage in when adopting apps from Chinese companies. Do the Chinese companies behind these services have any market incentive or legal obligation to protect the privacy of their non-Chinese global userbase? Do they willingly or automatically turn over all data to the Ministry of Public Security or State Internet Information Office? Will we soon see foreign users targeted or prosecuted due to “private” data shared on WeChat? And is there any fundamental difference in the impact on privacy freedom for an American citizen using WeChat versus a Chinese citizen using WhatsApp or Google?
On October 28 2014 the New York Technology Council presented, as part of its Security Track, David Maman of GreenSQL speaking on Protecting Sensitive Data in the Cloud: New Approaches to Mitigate Database Security Risk. As data moves to the cloud, databases are increasingly vulnerable to breaches, and as a result enterprises need to ensure that they apply rigorous strategies and controls to protect their information assets. This talk is a brief review of how to classify and discover data, manage the risks associated with migrating data to the cloud, and identify effective tools and techniques to detect and respond to data breaches. Video is below.
On July 22 2014 the Internet Society presented a briefing panel – Internet Security and Privacy: Ten Years Later – at the IETF 90 meeting in Toronto. Discussed were how Internet security and privacy landscapes have changed over the years, challenges we still need to address, and whether we’ll still be using the same security building blocks ten years from now. Also brought up were the societal and legislative changes that have affected the Internet, including user interfaces and risk assessment, privacy and identity implications of ‘free’ online services, and how the technical community can work together to implement more of the existing security standards like DNSSEC, DANE, and TLS. Speakers: Lucy Lynch, Director of Trust and Identity Initiatives, Internet Society; Danny McPherson, Senior Vice President and Chief Security Officer, Verisign; David Oran, Fellow, Cisco Systems; Wendy Seltzer, Policy Counsel, World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Moderator: Andrei Robachevsky, Technology Programme manager, Internet Society. The session was webcast live via the Internet Society’s livestream channel, video is below.
On February 6 2014 security analyst and cryptographer Bruce Schneier gave a talk “NSA Surveillance and What To Do About It” as part of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Big Data Lecture series. Video is below.
Today Tuesday November 20 2018, from 1pm – 4pm EST (18:00-21:00 UTC) the Internet Society North America Bureau will host the 4th meeting in the Canadian Multistakeholder Process to collaboratively identify and resolve issues of Internet of Things security. The event will be webcast live on the Internet Society Livestream Channel.
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