Cybersecurity Entrepreneurship Workshop

Any network-attached, everyday object that has embedded computing and sensors – from your smart TV to your nanny-cam is part of the Internet of Things. These are connected to the Internet (and each other) and provide a means of analyzing and monetizing information collected on an ongoing basis. An overview of security issues with regard to these sensors, including hardware (such as 5G hardware) and associated privacy implications will be the focus of the first part of this session. 

The second part of the session will integrate the technical summary with market considerations such as:

• What will people pay to ensure some degree of privacy in an IoT world?
• Are software-based companies the only route to business here? Are there hardware-based opportunities for privacy protection? Are there opportunities for companies that are concerned with education and encouraging appropriate human behavior?
• Are there alternatives to IoT that can provide consumers with a balanced rationale for having all their appliances, devices, etc. connected, while maintaining privacy and security?

Devices such as fitness trackers have already been used to discover the location of supposedly secret army bases around the world. With medical implants, near- health information is being collected – and may be required by entities like insurance companies in the future. With the advent of products such as the brain-interface proposed for testing by Neuralink, there could be no such thing as privacy in the future. The loss of privacy will be presented as a small price to pay for early intervention in health events, advertising targeted to specific behavior patterns and tastes, and other similar data-driven user feedback.

In this completely-connected world, privacy may be a thing of the past. Maybe? It is possible to conceive of privacy as a commodity in a world like this? Market opportunities to be discussed in this session include:

• What is the value of privacy?
• What sorts of products (data-monitoring, selectivity regarding data-collection from users, authenticity assurance, and others) will be monetized in the context of future mobile devices?
• Are there other monetizable alternatives in this general space?

Session Chair:  Darryl Ackley
Panelists: William Kwan, James Wernicke, and Ron Tafoya
Presentation:	IOT/Wearables Breakout Slides

The notions of smart and green grids are compatible because “smart” implies “efficient”. Smart cities have many IoT features that enable both micro-efficiencies (home thermostat control, for example) and macro-efficiencies (smarter timing of traffic lights, other traffic-pattern-management issues) that have many of the security and privacy issues associated with the IoT. Smart cities have additional security and privacy concerns beyond IoT as they are comprised of an intentional unified system in which the city gathers, analyzes, and controls (presumably) the information about the unified system. The first part of this session will explore these issues, and then the second part of the session will be concerned with discussion of how a private startup can enter the realm of smart/green grids/cities in what will be a regulated commercial world.

Session Chair: Gil Gallegos
Panelists: Gary Todd, Jim Miller, Thomas Bowles
Presentation:	Smart /Green Grid/Cities Session Slides

Hacking of laptops, tablets, smartphones and other widely-used mobile devices is an ongoing problem that will become more prevalent as hackers and their technologies become smarter. False information disguised as authentic information (or some other form of social engineering) is typically the first step in the attack process, followed by more technical means. This session will be devoted to an exploration of future security and privacy issues in this sector.

Major categories of current private-sector solutions to this problem will be discussed, and the viability of current technology solutions for both current and anticipated future problems will be discussed.  Strategies for development of new companies will also be considered, including (generally):

• Can hardware improve security and if not how can software overcome running on insecure hardware?
• Go it alone or try to partner if you have a better solution to a current problem?
• How to monetize your company if you put your solution into the public domain?
• How to approach the idea of developing one or more solutions to emerging security and privacy issues for mobile devices?

Session Chair:  Justin Vermillion
Panelists: Max Planck, Mark Fidel, James Kearney
Presentation:	Mobile Breakout Session Presentation

• Privacy and Security
• Define and Develop your Market IP
• Cyber Tech Competition

• Session Chair
• Panelists/Discussion Coordinators (4 per panel)

Each breakout will follow this basic structure, but will be focused on its specific topic.

Panels should be composed of community members from passionate novices to experts in cybersecurity. Panelists are to lead the session to explore and understand opportuniites for monetizable cybersecurity solutions including specific technological approaches, market analysis, and where possible, business case analysis.  We are looking for at least one technical expert and one entrepreneurial expert for each panel, with mixed expertise in other panelists. Panelists will assist Session Judges with running the competition. 

 Session Chairs will be responsible to keep the panel on track, on time, and to facilitate community interaction. Sessions Chairs will develop initial bullet points to guide the panel discussion. Session Chairs will assist Session Judges with running the competition. 

 While all community members will be able to participate in judging via a smart phone app, the Session Judges will explain the competition process, manage the competition (with assistance from panelists and session chairs), and jointly, Session Judges will determine the grand prize winning team.