https://digileaders.com/internet-things-balancing-benefits-data-security/ We Lead Transformation Wed, 11 Oct 2017 05:36:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://digileaders.com/internet-things-balancing-benefits-data-security/#comment-94 Fri, 09 Sep 2016 08:32:40 +0000 http://digileaders.com/?p=16855#comment-94 This raises a number of challenges, but for me working in Crime Prevention in Law Enforcement the most fundamental being a complete re-framing of what security means and how that addresses standards in security. The approach to security has historically been framed in terms of the physical environment, which is in turn predicated on the time it takes to overcome the security measures. That works because given time somebody will respond to the threat. Cyber security is to an extent still framed in that thinking, keep them out and detect them when they are in. Standards are then drafted on the length of time that your security will sustain under attack. The internet of things needs standards, but it widens the target/ risk area so much that setting standards based upon time becomes largely irrelevant. So instead of thinking about the security of networks we really need to be thinking about the balance between innovation, benefit and risk. do we really need our fridge to tell us what to buy? Does the process of data analysis really improve the product of the commercial company. Indeed is there a need for another Data Governance principle framed around a challenge to the commercial use of data, which says they should be able to evidence a tangible benefit to the end user before they even consider having products that harvest data or intrude on privacy. We are still coming to terms with the threat map presented by the Internet of Things, perhaps its time for some Big Thinking to go with the Big data.

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