On this day itself, I was at the public service career fair and talking to a representative from Internal Security Department. Later on, the talk given at our lecture is also about security.
The speaker's profile is very cool, he works in IBM and graduated from MIT. He gave us some idea of how IBM is structured. I also remembered how he mentioned that when choosing between a new feature and enhanced security, security should always be picked first. I realise that many developers may be pressured to outperform competitors and choose to focus on features rather than security. I guess this is very good advice. Many people don't realise the importance of security until something really bad hits.
Also, there was some discussion on privacy. Sometimes, having more security will compromise privacy, and the analogy given is that of airport baggage checks. Also, like using phone numbers and emails to verify identity.Yet something I never thought of is that people have different perspectives of what information is considered private to them. In some countries, age could be a private information, while in Korea, it is often one of the first information requested from one person to another while meeting for the first time. (This is because they would like to know how polite they need to be while conversing.) They are very open about revealing their own age.
The speaker's profile is very cool, he works in IBM and graduated from MIT. He gave us some idea of how IBM is structured. I also remembered how he mentioned that when choosing between a new feature and enhanced security, security should always be picked first. I realise that many developers may be pressured to outperform competitors and choose to focus on features rather than security. I guess this is very good advice. Many people don't realise the importance of security until something really bad hits.
Also, there was some discussion on privacy. Sometimes, having more security will compromise privacy, and the analogy given is that of airport baggage checks. Also, like using phone numbers and emails to verify identity.Yet something I never thought of is that people have different perspectives of what information is considered private to them. In some countries, age could be a private information, while in Korea, it is often one of the first information requested from one person to another while meeting for the first time. (This is because they would like to know how polite they need to be while conversing.) They are very open about revealing their own age.
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