ANDY ELLIS (Chief Security Officer, Akamai)

KEYNOTE TITLE: Cognitive Injection: Reprogramming the Situation-Oriented Human OS

KEYNOTE ABSTRACT: 

It’s a trope among security professionals that other humans – mere mundanes – don’t “get” security, and make foolish decisions. The human operating system has programmed itself over the last 50,000 years in ways that are understandable and manipulable.. We can dynamically reconfigure human wetware to cause them to act and react in more desirable ways.

Armed with these tools, the discerning organizational hacker can treat a group of humans as we would any other legacy distributed system; one which we can upgrade and modify to solve problems in more desirable ways! Beware, though, for these systems are Byzantine, complex, and are resistant to clumsy reprogramming efforts.

ABOUT ANDY ELLIS

Andy Ellis is Akamai’s Chief Security Officer, responsible for overseeing the security architecture and compliance of the company’s massive, globally distributed network as well as setting the strategic security direction of its offerings and managing the Information Security organization at Akamai.

A graduate of MIT and a former US Air Force officer, Andy is a noted speaker and the author of Protecting a Better Internet, a blog focused on key issues facing the information security industry. He also sits on the Board of Advisors of HacKid.