Imagine if someone tried to break into your house. Now imagine it happening 60,000 times a day. That’s how many times the average company’s IT infrastructure is attacked. There have been 354 million privacy breaches over the past five years in the United States alone. And in January 2009, one cybersecurity incident reportedly resulted in 130,000,000 credit cards being compromised. IBM Business resilience management
Pervasive sensing is arriving soon — we have a short window of opportunity for guiding this technology to protect both our security *and* our privacy.
Lenovo’s VeriFace Recognition let’s you use your face as your password. Instead of typing in your password, the Lenovo IdeaPad’s webcam detects your face and automatically logs you into your account. Came across this while visiting the amazing Lenovo eLounge, a virtual environment based on Nortel’s web.alive platform.
Dynamic Infrastructure for a Smarter Planet (via IBMSocialMedia)
Overview of the Open Source Physical Security Project, which has the goal of bringing the benefits of a bottom-up, decentralized approach to sensing for security and environmental purposes.
“Ubicomp [ubiquitous computing] isn’t just part of our cities of the future. Its devices and services are already here. Think of the use of prepaid smart cards for use of public transport or the tags displayed in our cars to help regulate congestion charge pricing or the way in which corporations track and move goods around the world. These systems will expand geometrically over the next decade building the blocks for our future cities. The question is: what will we choose to build? A City of Control or a City of Trust?”
