For legal reasons, we are not allowed to give too many details on Amit’s discussion. However, I can say it revolved around Verizon’s Connected Home service. While not live yet, it looks like it will be a big hit when it customers are given access. It allows you to essentially monitor most of your house through a computer or smart phone. Activate lights, alarms, locks, the thermostat, and energy levels just for starters. You would also be able to add on from a list of other services. Like I said, it looks exciting. Verizon homeowners should ready themselves for the wave of the future with the Connected Home.
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June 9th, 2011Securing Future Applications
June 9th, 2011Here are some thoughts from Dr. Giffin’s discussion:
- Attacks from the desktop world moving into mobile environment
- In 2010, 20% of Android apps leaked private data
- Applications being evaluated must focus on what they do rather than what they are
- Carriers want to stop attacks because attacks against devices can turn into attacks against infrastructure
- Georgia Tech has developed labratory malware samples for Android apps in order to learn what this type of malicious malware is capable of
- Those samples were built to also test remote repair and learn Android internals and fundamentals
- Repairs included: device-side traffic filtering, process termination, file removal, device update/patch, and a hard reset
A report will be published on Dr. Giffin’s presentation in the near future. Up next is Amit Shahani from Verizon. He will speak on IT enabling product innovation.
A Lot of Issues
June 9th, 2011Intros just wrapped up. A lot of the companies present are having similar issues in their organizations. Here were some of the mentions…
- Consolidation in a merger environment
- Employee retention
- PODs in the workplace
- Data management
- Establishing a service catalog
- Going green with virtualization
- Cloud migration and security
- Smaller budgets with big projects on the road map
- Managing global tenants
Up first this morning is Dr. Jonathon Giffin from Georgia Tech on “Securing Future Applications.”
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