Autonomy and Drones
Colin Guinn moderates a conversation between Dr. Michael Balazs and Kevin Finsterre on understanding the risks associated with autonomy, and mitigating said risks with practices in secure autonomy.
What you’ll find out
- What are the risks associated with autonomy?
- What are the four areas of autonomy vulnerability, and what are the practical ways to mitigate risk?
- What case studies are there for application security and data privacy?
Key takeaways
- “Everybody knows autonomy is coming, bringing a tremendous amount of value, and anytime we can create value for our species to use less calories and less watts then that’s a really good thing.” — Colin Guinn, Guinn Partners
- “While the physical machines may be built in the United States the problem is most components are still foreign-made. And there are plenty of issues with understanding exactly what’s going on there. What is happening with the secure data link you’re running where the data might be going back to a server in the cloud from the original manufacturer? And you don’t know what data is sent back; you’re told XY&Z but is that reality?” — Michael Balazs, MITRE
- “In choosing to use a particular product, you’ve in essence made yourself a product that they’re able to sell to someone else. One thing I noticed in the translation of these slides was that they specifically mention that they cooperate with the ministry of information security in China to comply with their standards. So again, imply or infer from that what you will. The main takeaway point is that we all need to be in tune with what the applications that we’re using to enable our secure autonomy are doing with the data that’s collected in the process.” — Kevin Finisterre
Who you’ll hear from
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