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Featured Session: An Orchestrated Response to a Systemic Network Ransomware Attack at Norsk Hydro

On March 19, 2019, Norsk Hydro, one of the world’s largest producers of aluminum, faced a systemic, worldwide network ransomware attack. Its response strategy was built upon two principles: pay no ransom, and admit the breach.   In this session, you’ll hear directly from Halvor Molland, senior vice president at Norsk Hydro ASA, about how their response resulted in unprecedented transparency and a distributed workstream that […]

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Understanding Holistic Risk Management

How do organizations best ensure a resilient cyber ecosystem–from assessing risk to implementing and managing controls to ensuring compliance internally and with external partners? Is it possible for defensive technologies to catch up and move ahead of attackers?   Join us at CyberSecure, our inaugural virtual event on the business of cyber risk, to hear how smart companies are striking preemptively, and what emerging technologies are proven to […]

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Featured Session: How and Why Nations Hack One Another

From espionage to elections, from blackouts to data breaches, from million-dollar ransoms to staged supply-chain disruption; cyber warfare is transforming statecraft and national security policy.  In this session, you’ll hear from Ben Buchanan, author of The Hacker and the State: Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics, on the very real geopolitical pursuit of nation-state cyber advantage.  Purchase your […]

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Covid testing, MIT style

MELANIE GONICK Seniors arriving on campus for the fall term headed to MIT’s custom-designed covid testing trailer, which lets caregivers swab noses using gloves protruding through height-adjustable panels. On August 31, MIT Medical administered over 2,700 tests—more than many states did that day—and topped that with a record 4,979 tests on September 14. Of the […]

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Robotic surgery gives doctors new savvy

Jeffrey Gum remembers his early-career surgeries with wonder. “We dissected a lot of muscle off the bone,” says Gum, an adult and pediatric spine surgeon at the Norton Leatherman Spine Center in Louisville, Kentucky. That resulted in “more blood loss than we’d prefer and big reconstructive surgeries.” With a traditional, open surgery, a patient could […]

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What Biden means for Big Tech—and Google in particular

Throughout his campaign to win the White House, president-elect Joe Biden has been relatively quiet about the technology industry.  In a revealing January 2020 interview with The New York Times editorial board, Biden said that he wanted to revoke Section 230; suggested that he disagreed with how friendly the Obama administration became with Silicon Valley; […]

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Republicans spent millions on last-minute voting ads on Facebook

On midnight of October 26, Facebook stopped accepting all new advertisements about “social issues, elections or politics in the US.” The intention was to prevent Facebook from being overwhelmed by a blitz of last minute ads that would require fact-checking, and to limit the ability of political groups to sow confusion or violence. Advertisers were […]