1.10 - Forming Team for Cybersecurity and Cyber-Forensics operations
1.40 - Power Supply Dynamics for Outdoor IoT Sensors
Forming Teams for Cybersecurity and Cyber-Forensics operations using individual profiling
Prashant Khanna with Chris Baker
Cybersecurity is, by nature, an interdisciplinary topic at an individual level and multidisciplinary one at a team level. This is showcased on numerous occasions by the responses seen to increasingly complex level of attacks that have emerged in the last two years. Responses to such attacks are often managed by a team of people within organisations/companies/governments and private institutions dedicated to handling cyber incidents. These teams normally consist of several “domain experts” who excel in their specific field of knowledge, have specific personal traits and working habits. Team formulation exercises within organisations that conduct cyber operations are often driven by assumptions that they face ever present, intelligent, evolving and adaptive adversaries, suitably governed and managed. It is valid to assume today that the adversaries are both human as well as machine assisted algorithms. The combination of such variables poses interesting challenges to cohesive team formation to address cyber operations.
Power Supply Dynamics for Outdoor IoT Sensors
Steve Cosgrove and Mathew Way
The term ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT) describes a growing network of Internet connected devices of various types, used in all areas of 21st century life. Many of these devices are sensors, predominantly commercial products that are used by the million, in situations like car parking or street lighting (IEC, 2016).
This paper considers power requirements of those sensors that are in challenging situations. In particular, they might be in locations that are special by being remote, sensitive, out of digital communication range, in harsh environmental conditions or similar circumstances.
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Steve Cosgrove has been working with PCs and related technologies since 1982. Initially in presales support, when the IBM PC was first released in New Zealand.
He later worked within the PC support team of a Government department, before moving to lecturing at the Polytechnic sector in 1993. During the 1990s, Polytechnics moved from offering lower level certificates and industry qualifications to include degree courses. Steve followed this trend, completing a Masters degree in 2008. He now teaches networking and infrastructure courses, predominantly teaching, and supervising student projects, at third year undergraduate (level 7) and postgraduate levels.
Since 2001, Steve has been teaching at Whitireia New Zealand where he started the Whitireia Cisco Networking Academy (CNAP). He research interests cover a range of network fieds, particularly the Internet of Things.
Prashant Khanna is a Senior Lecturer at Wintec, Hamilton. He has over 25 years of industry experience in diverse roles related to managing large teams in communications and IT. His interests, besides taking classes on Cybersecurity and Forensics at the postgraduate level Big Data at undergraduate levels include the handling of CRM data hygiene issues for organisations, and the resolving data overload problem facing NZ organisations today. His research focuses on Data Privacy and the emerging threats in the delivery of projects while working in the gig economy.
Chris Baker is a qualified Teacher, Accountant, award winning Business Coach and a Personality Profiler. Apart from a five year stint as the founder and General Manager of a mini-brewery, he has spent his entire working life in people development roles as a teacher, business coach, sports coach and now profiler. In 2019 he became the General Manager and Master Franchisee of PeopleMaps Personality Profiling New Zealand and Australia. He also sits on the product development and franchising teams of PeopleMaps.