Complex Challenges Facing Connected Cars

Kevin Coleman, a Strategic Advisor based in the United States participated in Risk Roundup to discuss Complex Challenges facing Connected Cars on Risk Roundup. Internet Connected Cars While many technological advances have driven the automotive industry for decades, internet connectivity brings massive changes to the automobile industry globally. With the hope that connected cars will take nations toward a mode of transport that is safer, smarter, secure, and more sustainable, there is increasing incorporation of in-vehicle computer systems that are connected to the internet. As a result, connected cars are on their way to optimize their own operation and maintenance as well as the convenience and comfort of human passengers using onboard sensors and internet connectivity. Now, when the emerging connected cars have the computing power of dozens of individual computers, features hundreds of millions of lines of programming code, and process around dozens of gigabytes of data an hour, the rapidly changing automotive computing understandably has many complex challenges and makes endpoint security a moving target. The connected cars and security breaches are becoming an actuality of life. So, when millions of cars from across nations are being interwoven into an already complex network of connected devices to the internet, it raises many new concerns and questions about not only safety, security, and privacy—but also whether nations have, effective, security-centric, infrastructure, framework, technology, tools and processes in cyberspace, geospace and space for the connected cars and rapidly changing automobile industry. While on the surface, threats to connected cars and automotive technology, currently appear, isolated and unrelated, the reality of the security threats, facing connected cars, is a complex challenge. In the coming years, as digital connectivity, and technology, becomes more prevalent, so too will be the security risks associated with it. Time is now to discuss the security risks emerging from Connected Cars! For more please watch the Risk Roundup Webcast or hear the Risk Roundup Podcast About the Guest Kevin is a dynamic speaker, author, advisor, and visionary that provides riveting insights on strategy, innovation, creativity, and the high-velocity technology era that is just around the corner. For over two decades he has advised leaders of business, government, industry, and the military on the issues and opportunities created by new technology. Kevin has received critical acclaim and has been deemed a Subject Matter Expert in his field. This distinction was only achieved by 5 others out of a group of over 500,000 professionals. His experience provides the foundation for his unique perspective on strategy at the intersection of technology and business. Areas of interest include: emerging technology, artificial intelligence, robotics, IoT, wearable computing, cryptocurrencies, connected car, augmented reality, virtual reality, and mixed reality. In 2017, one seminar emerging technology series had over 20,000 professionals participate. About the Host of Risk Roundup Jayshree Pandya (née Bhatt), Founder and CEO of Risk Group LLC, is a scientist, a visionary, an expert in disruptive technologies, and a globally recognized thought leader and influencer. She is actively engaged in driving global discussions on existing and emerging technologies, technology transformation, and national preparedness. Her work focuses on the impact of existing and emerging technological innovations on nations, national preparedness, and the very survival, security, and sustainability of humanity. She believes that the reality of the imminent technological and economic singularity necessitates that Darwin’s evolution theory, a theory that has evolved from natural selection to the survival of the fittest to symbiosis to mutualism be translated and scaled from micro to macro level and understood and evaluated from the perspective of the transformative and evolutionary changes seen across nations (largely triggered due to technology transformation and re-defining and re-designing of systems at all levels). Her research in this context evaluates the evolution of intelligence in all forms, researches strategic security risks emerging from disruptive innovations, reviews the diminishing capacities of the risk management infrastructure, points out the changing role of decision-makers, defines dynamic decision-making approaches with machine intelligence, integrates all components of a nation: governments, industries, organizations and academia (NGIOA), and defines strategic security risks so that nations can improve the state of risk-resilience across cyberspace, geospace and space (CGS). As nations make a move from centralization towards decentralization, the re-defining and re-designing of systems at all levels evaluated in Dr. Pandya’s comprehensive research scholarship include artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, internet of things, blockchain, cryptocurrency, quantum computing, virtual reality, synthetic biology, big data analytics, drones, nanosatellites, biotechnology, nanotechnology, gene editing, and much more. Her research is much needed for the survival and security of humanity today and in the coming tomorrow. Jayshree’s doctorate work in the 1980s focused on hydrogen production by Halobacterium halobium, for which she received India’s National Young Scientist Award in Biochemistry. Her many publications on this work have been cited in several books, journals, and reports published by governments, including a report from the United States Department of Energy. Her work on anti-cancer drugs also received worldwide attention and, amongst other citations, has been referenced in a report published by the World Health Organization. In 1991, she was invited to come to the United States (under the Scientist Exchange Program) to continue research on hydrogen production and was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship at the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute. After that, she researched atherosclerosis at the University of Chicago Medical School. Next, she took a job at Aurotech, a biotech company based in Wisconsin. As in her Ph.D. research, she used microorganisms to develop natural processes and technologies, and some of the projects she worked on were quite promising. While her doctorate and post-doctorate studies gave her the first taste of the power of interdisciplinary research, it also introduced her to the repressive power of institutional silos and inefficiencies. As a result, her physical location wasn’t the only thing that shifted in the 1990s; her focus did as well. Since Microbiology trained her to see changes in tiny organisms coming from natural selection, she began to see similar forces at work in the evolution of individuals as well as entities across NGIOA and society in general. It’s all the same basic mechanism. Her career took another turn after she was asked to consider risk management as part of a strategic planning effort by one of her employers. She quickly realized that most risk management is all process, with no actual benefit. That was the beginning of Risk Group, the strategic security risk research organization she founded in 2002, from where she is passionately creating and managing cutting-edge security ventures that bring a futurist perspective to nations and all its components to improve innovation capacity and to define and design new ideas, innovations, products, and services for security and sustainability. From the National Science Foundation to organizations from across nations, Jayshree is an invited speaker on emerging technologies, technology transformation, digital disruption, strategic security risks, industry risks, and country risks. She is the author of the book, The Global Age: NGIOA @ Risk and has also published many scientific and technical papers. Jayshree advises decision-makers at all levels on existing and emerging technologies: emerging applications, impact, and solutions. About Risk Roundup Risk Roundup, a global initiative launched by Risk Group, is a security risk reporting for risks emerging from existing and emerging technologies, technology convergence, and transformation happening across cyberspace, geospace and space. Risk Roundup is released in both audio (Podcast) and video (Webcast) format and is available for subscription at (Risk Group Website, iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher Radio, Android, and Risk Group Professional Social Media). 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