In response to President Obama's State of the Union address on 12 January 2016, thought leaders and private citizens who make up the brain trust at Lisa Bernard's SecuritySpeak, LLC, offer their comments.
In response to President Obama's second question,
"... how do we make technology work for us, and not against us ...?"
Marc Groz, CEO of CyberXplore: The unsolved problem of cyber-security remains how to deal with the human factor. Technology alone will never be sufficient. But how can we educate and incentivize people to be "eternally vigilant"?
Ami Soifer, CEO of The TNS Group, one of our nation’s premier and-full service IT consulting firms: President Obama aptly points out that technology is changing the country, asserting that “[t]oday, technology doesn’t just replace jobs on the assembly line but any job where work can be automated.” But loss of some jobs is only half the story. Technology is simultaneously “destructive and creative.” On the one hand it is destroying industries but on the other hand it is creating brand new ones. Look at brick and mortar video stores like Blockbuster giving way modern day streaming options. Technology is ACTIVELY redefining industries and both creating as well as eliminating jobs and as a society we are better off for it. My clear sense is that the number of jobs created for the development and management of these innovations and the protection of our electronic inventories may dwarf the number of jobs lost to automation.
Ami Soifer, CEO of The TNS Group, one of our nation’s premier and-full service IT consulting firms: President Obama aptly points out that technology is changing the country, asserting that “[t]oday, technology doesn’t just replace jobs on the assembly line but any job where work can be automated.” But loss of some jobs is only half the story. Technology is simultaneously “destructive and creative.” On the one hand it is destroying industries but on the other hand it is creating brand new ones. Look at brick and mortar video stores like Blockbuster giving way modern day streaming options. Technology is ACTIVELY redefining industries and both creating as well as eliminating jobs and as a society we are better off for it. My clear sense is that the number of jobs created for the development and management of these innovations and the protection of our electronic inventories may dwarf the number of jobs lost to automation.
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